Depletion of RNase HI activity in Escherichia coli lacking DNA topoisomerase I leads to defects in DNA supercoiling and segregation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 968-981

  Usongo, Valentine ^a   Nolent, Flora ^a   Sanscartier, Patrick ^a   Tanguay, Cynthia ^a   Broccoli, Sonia ^a   Baaklini, Imad ^a   Drlica, Karl ^b   Drolet, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBONUCLEASE HI;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE H;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 47749130441     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06334.x     Document Type: Article

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