DNA replication fidelity in Escherichia coli: A multi-DNA polymerase affair

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1105-1121

  Fijalkowska, Iwona J ^a   Schaaper, Roel M ^b   Jonczyk, Piotr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessory DNA polymerases; DNA replication fidelity; Exonucleolytic proofreading; Leading and lagging DNA replication; Polymerase switching; Untargeted mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; DNA POLYMERASE; HOLOENZYME; OKAZAKI FRAGMENT;

BASE MISPAIRING; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84866930664     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2012.00338.x     Document Type: Review

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