The Neisseria gonorrhoeae photolyase orthologue phrB is required for proper DNA supercoiling but does not function in photo-reactivation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 729-742

  Cahoon, Laty A ^a   Stohl, Elizabeth A ^a   Seifert, H Steven ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN PHRB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHOTOREACTIVATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTO-LYASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTINOMYCIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 78751679920     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07481.x     Document Type: Article

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