Thymineless death is associated with loss of essential genetic information from the replication origin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1455-1467

  Sangurdekar, Dipen P ^a,b   Hamann, Bree L ^a   Smirnov, Dmitri ^a   Srienc, Friedrich ^a   Hanawalt, Philip C ^c   Khodursky, Arkady B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NUCLEOTIDE; RECF PROTEIN; RECJ PROTEIN; RECO PROTEIN; RECQ HELICASE; RECR PROTEIN; THYMINE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL KILLING; CHROMOSOME LOSS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; THYMINELESS DEATH; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; REPLICATION ORIGIN; THYMINE;

EID: 77949389907     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07072.x     Document Type: Article

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