Escherichia coli ArgR mutants defective in cer/Xer recombination, but not in DNA binding

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 305, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 162-169

  Sénéchal, Hélène ^a   Delesques, Jérémy ^a   Szatmari, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

ArgR; Cer; Site specific recombination; XerC; XerD

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ARGININE REPRESSOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARGR PROTEIN, E COLI; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; STOP CODON;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STOP CODON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTANT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 77949624256     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01921.x     Document Type: Article

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