Analysis of the SOS response of Vibrio and other bacteria with multiple chromosomes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sanchez Alberola, Neus ^a,b   Campoy, Susana ^a   Barbé, Jordi ^a   Erill, Ivan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA REPAIR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE SOS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; REGULON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO; VIBRIONACEAE; BACTERIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO; VIBRIONACEAE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEOBACTERIA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); VIBRIO;

EID: 84856465122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-58     Document Type: Article

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