Mutations at several loci cause increased expression of ribonucleotide reductase in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1515-1522

  Feeney, Morgan Anne ^a,b   Ke, Na ^a   Beckwith, Jon ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE REDUCTASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84857938550     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05989-11     Document Type: Article

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