Reduced lipopolysaccharide phosphorylation in Escherichia coli lowers the elevated ori/ter ratio in seqA mutants

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1273-1292

  Rotman, Ella ^a   Bratcher, Preston ^a   Kuzminov, Andrei ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETHAL MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PGM GENE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; RFAQGP GENE; SEQA GENE; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; PHOSPHORYLATION; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 65949092557     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06725.x     Document Type: Article

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