A family of phase-variable restriction enzymes with differing specificities generated by high-frequency gene rearrangements

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

Volumn 95, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 13923-13928

  Dybvig, Kevin ^a,b   Sitaraman, Ramakrishnan ^b   French, C Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; DNA inversion; Mycoplasma virus; Mycoplasmas; Phase variation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, BACTERIAL; MYCOPLASMA;

EID: 0032506027     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.23.13923     Document Type: Article

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