RecX Facilitates Homologous Recombination by Modulating RecA Activities

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Cárdenas, Paula P ^a   Carrasco, Begoña ^a   Defeu Soufo, Clarisse ^b   César, Carolina E ^a   Herr, Katharina ^b   Kaufenstein, Miriam ^b   Graumann, Peter L ^b   Alonso, Juan C ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; RECA PROTEIN; RECF PROTEIN; RECX PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RECOMBINATION REPAIR; RECX GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA DAMAGE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; POINT MUTATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84872031587     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003126     Document Type: Article

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