The restriction-modification genes of Escherichia coli K-12 may not be selfish: They do not resist loss and are readily replaced by alleles conferring different specificities

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

Volumn 94, Issue 26, 1997, Pages 14596-14601

  O'Neill, Mary ^a   Chen, Angela ^a   Murray, Noreen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031474036     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.26.14596     Document Type: Article

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