Helicobacter pylori interstrain restriction-modification diversity prevents genome subversion by chromosomal DNA from competing strains

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5391-5397

  Aras, Rahul A ^b   Small, Aaron J ^a   Ando, Takafumi ^a   Blaser, Martin J ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA FRAGMENT; KANAMYCIN; MARKER;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; POINT MUTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0037115902     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf686     Document Type: Review

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