Effects of single-strand DNases ExoI, RecJ, ExoVII, and SbcCD on homologous recombination of recBCD+ strains of Escherichia coli and roles of SbcB15 and XonA2 ExoI mutant enzymes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 179-192

  Thoms, Brigitte ^a   Borchers, Inka ^a   Wackernagel, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE VII; EXOI PROTEIN; EXONUCLEASE; EXOVII PROTEIN; RECJ PROTEIN; SBCB15 PROTEIN; SBCD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XONA2 EXOI PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONJUGATION; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; STOP CODON; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CROSSES, GENETIC; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 37549057335     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01052-07     Document Type: Article

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