Fragile X repeats are potent inducers of complex, multiple site rearrangements in flanking sequences in Escherichia coli

DNA Repair

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1850-1863

  Kosmider, Beata ^a   Wells, Robert D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CGG CCG repeats; Complex DNA rearrangements; Gross deletions; Non B DNA structures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LAC OPERON; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 35748933166     PISSN: 15687864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2007.07.014     Document Type: Article

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