Genetic organization and molecular analysis of the EcoVIII restriction-modification system of Escherichia coli E1585-68 and its comparison with isospecific homologs

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2638-2650

  Mruk, Iwona ^a   Kaczorowski, Tadeusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MICROSEQUENCING;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ENDONUCLEASE; GENOMIC DNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MONOMER; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CODON; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE HINDIII; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE RD KW20; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS SUBSP. CREMORIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037545613     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.5.2638-2650.2003     Document Type: Article

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