The Escherichia coli mismatch repair protein MutL recruits the Vsr and muth endonucleases in response to DNA damage

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4041-4043

  Polosina, Yaroslava Y ^a   Mui, Justin ^a   Pitsikas, Photini ^a,b   Cupples, Claire G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Luminex Molecular Diagnostics   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ENDONUCLEASE; MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN; MUTH ENZYME; PROTEIN MUTL; PROTEIN MUTS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; METHYL DIRECTED MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN, E COLI; METHYL-DIRECTED MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN, E COLI; MUTL PROTEIN, E COLI; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; VSR ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTY GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MISMATCH REPAIR; PROTEIN BINDING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 67549084957     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00066-09     Document Type: Article

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