DNA repair in Mycobacterium tuberculosis revisited

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 471-487

  Dos Vultos, Tiago ^a   Mestre, Olga ^a   Tonjum, Tone ^b   Gicquel, Brigitte ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Genome stability; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; DNA POLYMERASE; LEXA PROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; RECA PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SOS PROTEIN; URACIL;

ALKYLATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BER GENE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NER GENE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UPREGULATION;

DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 64349108498     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2009.00170.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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