Mutations in the gene 5 DNA polymerase of bacteriophage T7 suppress the dominant lethal phenotype of gene 2.5 ssDNA binding protein lacking the C-terminal phenylalanine

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 869-880

  Marintcheva, Boriana ^a,b   Qimron, Udi ^a   Yu, Yao ^a   Tabor, Stanley ^a   Richardson, Charles ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; PHENYLALANINE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; LETHAL GENE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHENYLALANINE; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 65549156055     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06682.x     Document Type: Article

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