The rate and spectrum of spontaneous mutations in Mycobacterium smegmatis, a bacterium naturally devoid of the postreplicative mismatch repair pathway

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2157-2163

  Kucukyildirim, Sibel ^a,b   Long, Hongan ^a   Sung, Way ^c   Miller, Samuel F ^a   Doak, Thomas G ^a   Lynch, Michael ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

GC bias; Mutation accumulation; Mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; HISTIDINOL PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN DNAE1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL DNA GLYCOSIDASE; URACIL DNA GLYCOSIDASE B; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; DNA POLYMERASE III, ALPHA SUBUNIT; SITE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE SPECIFIC);

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; GENETICS; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATION ACCUMULATION; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OXIDATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

DNA DAMAGE; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DOMAINS; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); URACIL-DNA GLYCOSIDASE;

EID: 84978422201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.030130     Document Type: Article

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