Role of RecA and the SOS response in thymineless death in Escherichia coli

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Fonville, Natalie C ^a   Bates, David ^a   Hastings, P J ^a   Hanawalt, Philip C ^b   Rosenberg, Susan M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; PROTEIN SULA; RECA PROTEIN; RECJ PROTEIN; RECQ HELICASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SOS PROTEIN; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; CRUCIFORM DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE III; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; THYMINELESS DEATH; UPREGULATION; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPAIR; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CRUCIFORM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); THYMINE;

EID: 77950408680     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000865     Document Type: Article

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