Unveiling novel RecO distant orthologues involved in homologous recombination

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Marsin, Stéphanie ^a   Mathieu, Aurélie ^a   Kortulewski, Thierry ^a   Guérois, Raphaël ^b   Radicella, J Pablo ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^b SERVICE DE CHIMIE BIOORGANIQUE ET DE MARQUAGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RECA PROTEIN; RECO PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPAIR; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 50849122026     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000146     Document Type: Article

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