DprB facilitates inter- and intragenomic recombination in helicobacter pylori

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 3891-3903

  Zhang, Xue Song ^a   Blaser, Martin J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; KANAMYCIN; PROTEIN DPRB; PROTEIN RUVC; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; DNA DAMAGE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 84866334960     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00346-12     Document Type: Article

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