Direct and Inverted Repeats Elicit Genetic Instability by Both Exploiting and Eluding DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Systems in Mycobacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Wojcik, Ewelina A ^a,b   Brzostek, Anna ^a   Bacolla, Albino ^c   Mackiewicz, Pawel ^d   Vasquez, Karen M ^c   Korycka Machala, Malgorzata ^a   Jaworski, Adam ^b   Dziadek, Jaroslaw ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EPISOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INVERTED REPEAT; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE STRAND ANNEALING;

DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84870898400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051064     Document Type: Article

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