Measurement of SOS expression in individual Escherichia coli K-12 cells using fluorescence microscopy

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1343-1357

  McCool, Jesse D ^a,d   Long, Edward ^a   Petrosino, Joseph F ^b   Sandler, Hilary A ^c   Rosenberg, Susan M ^b   Sandler, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; SOS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4444224780     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04225.x     Document Type: Article

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