Sequence similarities between the genes encoding the S.NgoI and HaeII restriction/modification systems

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 379, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 575-578

  Stein, Daniel C ^a   Gunn, John S ^a,b   Piekarowicz, Andrzej ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

DNA methyltransferases; Evolutionary biology; Gene cloning; Gene homologies; Restriction endonucleases

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CELL RECEPTOR; CONTIG; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CISTRON; CODON USAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC);

EID: 0031971247     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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