Elucidating the functional role of Mycobacterium smegmatis recX in stress response

The RecX protein has attracted considerable interest because the recX mutants exhibit multiple phenotypes associated with RecA functions. To further our understanding of the functional relationship between recA and recX , the effect of different stress treatments on their expression profiles, cell yield and viability were investigated. A significant correlation was found between the expression of Mycobacterium smegmatis recA and recX genes at...