Mismatch correction modulates mutation frequency and pilus phase and antigenic variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 316-325

  Criss, Alison K ^a,b   Bonney, Kevin M ^a   Chang, Rhoda A ^a   Duffin, Paul M ^a   LeCuyer, Brian E ^a   Seifert, H Steven ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HELICASE; NALIDIXIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; MISMATCH REPAIR; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OPEN READING FRAMES; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECTINOMYCIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 73849119988     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01228-09     Document Type: Article

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