Restriction-modification system differences in Helicobacter pylori are a barrier to interstrain plasmid transfer

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1052-1065

  Ando, Takafumi ^a,b   Xu, Qing ^a   Torres, Melaine ^a   Kusugami, Kazuo ^b   Israel, Dawn A ^a   Blaser, Martin J ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KANAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; GENE TRANSFER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ELECTROPORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0033812744     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02049.x     Document Type: Article

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