The microbiology of mutability

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-20

  Sundin, George W ^a   Weigand, Michael R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dinB; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; SOS mutagenesis; umuDC

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA POLYMERASE; METHYL GROUP; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOCHEMISTRY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ECOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 35748957770     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00901.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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