mutL as a genetic switch of bacterial mutability: Turned on or off through repeat copy number changes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 126-132

  Chen, Fang ^a,b   Liu, Wei Qiao ^a,c   Liu, Zhen Hong ^a   Zou, Qing Hua ^b   Wang, Ye ^b   Li, Yong Guo ^a   Zhou, Jin ^a   Eisenstark, Abraham ^d   Johnston, Randal N ^c   Liu, Gui Rong ^a   Yang, Bao Feng ^a   Liu, Shu Lin ^a,b,c  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genetic Switch; Mutability; Mutl; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PROTEIN MUTL;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC STABILITY; LETTER; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; WILD TYPE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 77957888148     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02107.x     Document Type: Letter

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