Genetic recombination in Bacillus subtilis: A division of labor between two single-strand DNA-binding proteins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5546-5559

  Yadav, Tribhuwan ^a   Carrasco, Begoña ^a   Myers, Angela R ^b   George, Nicholas P ^b   Keck, James L ^b   Alonso, Juan C ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN SSBA; PROTEIN SSBB; RECA PROTEIN; RECO PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMOSOMAL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84862157578     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks173     Document Type: Article

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