Cas3 stimulates runaway replication of a ColE1 plasmid in Escherichia coli and antagonises RNaseHI

RNA Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 770-778

  Ivančić Baće, Ivana ^a   Radovčić, Marin ^a   Bočkor, Luka ^a,c   Howard, Jamieson L ^b   Bolt, Edward L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cas3; ColE1; CRISPR; R loop; RecG; RNaseHI

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN CAS3; RECG HELICASE; RIBONUCLEASE H; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DNA HELICASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; RECG PROTEIN, E COLI; RIBONUCLEASE HI; ROM PROTEIN, BACTERIA; YGCB PROTEIN, E COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPLICON; RNA PROCESSING; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ARCHAEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84879009913     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.23876     Document Type: Article

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