Synthetic lethality with the dut defect in Escherichia coli reveals layers of DNA damage of increasing complexity due to uracil incorporation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 5841-5854

  Ting, Helen ^a   Kouzminova, Elena A ^a   Kuzminov, Andrei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b B103 C and LSL ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; THYMIDINE KINASE; URACIL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DUT GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; RUVABC GENE;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PYROPHOSPHATASES; URACIL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 50249137730     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00711-08     Document Type: Article

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