Is modification sufficient to protect a bacterial chromosome from a resident restriction endonuclease?

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 135-147

  Makovets, Svetlana ^a,b   Powell, Lynn M ^a   Titheradge, Annette J B ^a   Blakely, Garry W ^a   Murray, Noreen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; MUTAGENIC AGENT; NUCLEASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SHORT SURVEY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE I SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0348225084     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03801.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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