UV hyper-resistance in Prochlorococcus MED4 results from a single base pair deletion just upstream of an operon encoding nudix hydrolase and photolyase

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1978-1988

  Osburne, Marcia S ^a   Holmbeck, Brianne M ^a   Frias Lopez, Jorge ^a,c   Steen, Robert ^b   Huang, Katherine ^a   Kelly, Libusha ^a   Coe, Allison ^a   Waraska, Kristin ^b   Gagne, Andrew ^b   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; NUDIX HYDROLASES;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTO-LYASE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; SEQUENCE DELETION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 77955710413     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02203.x     Document Type: Article

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