How RecBCD enzyme and Chi promote DNA break repair and recombination: A molecular biologist's view

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 217-228

  Smith, Gerald R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; PLASMID DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHI SEQUENCE; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 84862527578     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: 10985557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.05026-11     Document Type: Review

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