The Brucella abortus CcrM DNA methyltransferase is essential for viability, and its overexpression attenuates intracellular replication in murine macrophages

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 3482-3489

  Robertson, Gregory T ^a,d   Reisenauer, Ann ^b   Wright, Rachel ^b,e   Jensen, Rasmus B ^b   Jensen, Allen ^c   Shapiro, Lucille ^b   Roop II, R Martin ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^d ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^e Experimental Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA REPLICATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HOST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ENTEROBACTERIA; MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0034043880     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.12.3482-3489.2000     Document Type: Article

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