Role of a short tandem leucine/arginine repeat in strong mutator phenotype acquisition in a clinical isolate of Salmonella Typhimurium

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-106

  Le Bars, Hervé ^a,b   Bousarghin, Latifa ^a   Bonnaure Mallet, Martine ^a,b   Jolivet Gougeon, Anne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^b PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Mismatch repair; Mutator; mutL; Salmonella; Short tandem repeat

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALANINE; ARGININE; LEUCINE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN MUTL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTH GENE; MUTL GENE; MUTS GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; LEUCINE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR HEIDELBERG; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84870934197     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12039     Document Type: Article

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