The Mycoplasma pneumoniae MPN490 and Mycoplasma genitalium MG339 genes encode RecA homologs that promote homologous DNA strand exchange

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4905-4911

  Sluijter, Marcel ^a   Spuesens, Emiel B M ^a   Hartwig, Nico G ^a   Van Rossum, Annemarie M C ^a   Vink, Cornelis ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MG339 GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MPN490 GENE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 70350458740     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00747-09     Document Type: Article

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