Identification of genes involved in low aminoglycoside-induced SOS response in Vibrio cholerae: A role for transcription stalling and Mfd helicase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2366-2379

  Baharoglu, Zeynep ^a,b   Babosan, Anamaria ^a,b   Mazel, Didier ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; DING HELICASE; DNA BASE; GUANINE; HELICASE; MFD HELICASE; PROTEIN YEJH; REP HELICASE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA POLYMERASE; RNHA HELICASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DRUG POTENCY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LETHALITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA DEGRADATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION STALLING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA HELICASES; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE H; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); TOBRAMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84895814011     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1259     Document Type: Article

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