mwr Xer site-specific recombination is hypersensitive to DNA supercoiling

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3580-3587

  Trigueros, Sonia ^a,b   Tran, Tung ^b,c   Sorto, Nohemy ^b   Newmark, Jason ^b,c   Colloms, Sean D ^d   Sherratt, David J ^b   Tolmasky, Marcelo E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN NWR; PROTEIN XER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENE TARGETING; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID;

DIMERIZATION; DNA, CRUCIFORM; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 67649842763     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp208     Document Type: Article

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