Determinants of spontaneous mutation in the bacterium Escherichia coli as revealed by whole-genome sequencing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 44, 2015, Pages E5990-E5999

  Foster, Patricia L ^a   Lee, Heewook ^b   Popodi, Ellen ^a   Townes, Jesse P ^a   Tang, Haixu ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Evolution; Mutation accumulation; Mutation rate; Oxidative DNA damage

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYGUANINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE (PYRIMIDINE DIMER); DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; ENDONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE III; ENDONUCLEASE IV; ENDONUCLEASE VIII; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE III; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DEAMINATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE SEQUENCE; INDEL MUTATION; MUTAGENIC ACTIVITY; MUTAGENICITY; MUTATION RATE; NITROSATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; ALKYLATION; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETICS; MUTATION;

ALKYLATION; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION;

EID: 84946567350     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512136112     Document Type: Article

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