Constitutive SOS expression and damage-inducible AddAB-mediated recombinational repair systems for Coxiella burnetii as potential adaptations for survival within macrophages

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1411-1426

  Mertens, Katja ^a   Lantsheer, Letty ^a   Ennis, Don G ^b   Samuel, James E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; MITOMYCIN C; MUTANT PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN RECAG159D; SOS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADDAB GENE; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LEX A GENE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECA GENE; RECA1 GENE; RECA56 GENE; RECBCD GENE; RUVABC GENE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA DAMAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MACROPHAGES; METHYL METHANESULFONATE; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MITOMYCIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENS; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

COXIELLA BURNETII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 50049090597     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06373.x     Document Type: Article

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