Navel type I restriction specificities through domain shuffling of HsdS subunits in Lactococcus lactis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 866-875

  O'sullivan, David ^a,b   Twomey, Denis P ^a,b   Coffey, Aidan ^a   Hill, Colin ^b   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^b   Ross, R Paul ^a  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HSDS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; TYPE I SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE I SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033625345     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01901.x     Document Type: Article

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