Papillation in Bacillus anthracis colonies: A tool for finding new mutators

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1276-1293

  Yang, Hanjing ^a   Sikavi, Cameron ^a   Tran, Katherine ^a   McGillivray, Shauna M ^b   Nizet, Victor ^c   Yung, Madeline ^a   Chang, Aileen ^a   Miller, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NEUTRAL PROTEINASE; PROTEIN MUTL; PROTEIN MUTS; RECJ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YYCJ PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL ISOLATION; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NPRR GENE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECJ GENE; TANDEM REPEAT; YYCJ GENE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS STR. STERNE; LURIA;

EID: 79951792424     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07519.x     Document Type: Article

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