Asymmetry of Dam remethylation on the leading and lagging arms of plasmid replicative intermediates

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 6542-6551

  Stancheva, Irina ^a,b   Koller, Theodor ^b   Sogo, José M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dam methyltransferase; Escherichia coli; Plasmid replication

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DNA FRAGMENT; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALF LIFE TIME; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033571225     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.22.6542     Document Type: Article

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