Involvement of genes of genome maintenance in the regulation of phase variation frequencies in Neisseria meningitidis

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3001-3012

  Martin, Patricia ^a   Sun, Li ^a   Hood, Derek W ^a   Moxon, E Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LAC OPERON; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC);

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 4844220209     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27182-0     Document Type: Article

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