Lack of mismatch correction facilities genome evolution in myobacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1601-1609

  Springer, Burkhard ^a   Sander, Peter ^a   Sedlacek, Ludwig ^b   Hardt, Wolf Dietrich ^c   Mizrahi, Valerie ^d   Schär, Primo ^e   Böttger, Erik C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HETERODUPLEX; MUTLS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EVOLUTION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4644335120     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04231.x     Document Type: Article

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