DNA tandem repeat instability in the Escherichia coli chromosome is stimulated by mismatch repair at an adjacent CAG·CTG trinucleotide repeat

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 52, 2010, Pages 22582-22586

  Blackwood, John K ^a   Okely, Ewa A ^a   Zahra, Rabaab ^a   Eykelenboom, John K ^a   Leach, David R F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA repair; DNA replication; Fragile site

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CAG REPEAT; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSAL REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 78651090023     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012906108     Document Type: Article

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