A strain of Yersinia pestis with a mutator phenotype from the Republic of Georgia

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 343, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 113-120

  Rajanna, Chythanya ^a   Ouellette, Gary ^b,c,h   Rashid, Mohammed ^a   Zemla, Adam ^d   Karavis, Mark ^b   Zhou, Carol ^d   Revazishvili, Tamara ^a   Redmond, Brady ^b   Mcnew, Lauren ^b   Bakanidze, Lela ^e   Imnadze, Paata ^e   Rivers, Bryan ^b   Skowronski, Evan W ^b,g   O'Connell, Kevin P ^b,f   Sulakvelidze, Alexander ^a   Gibbons, Henry S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e National Center for Disease Control   (Georgia)

^f In Q Tel   (United States)

^g TMG Biosciences   (United States)

^h U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Evolution; Mutator; mutS; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; LEUCINE; THYMINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84878379596     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12137     Document Type: Letter

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