Characterization of a Novel Type II Restriction-Modification System, Sth368I, Encoded by the Integrative Element ICESt1 of Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ368

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1522-1528

  Burrus, Vincent ^a   Bontemps, Cyril ^a   Decaris, Bernard ^a   Guédon, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PHAGE; TRANSPOSON; VIROLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PHAGES; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0035320664     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1522-1528.2001     Document Type: Article

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