Underrepresentation of short palindromes in Selenomonas ruminantium DNA: Evidence for horizontal gene transfer of restriction and modification systems?

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 315-318

  Pristas, Peter ^a   Piknova, Maria ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Palindromes; Restriction modification; Selenomonas

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CORRELATION METHODS; ENZYMES; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

ENDONUCLEASES; PALINDROMES; RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION; SELENOMONAS;

DNA;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; ENDONUCLEASE; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; PALINDROMIC DNA; TETRANUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA;

BACTERIUM; DNA; GENE TRANSFER;

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELENOMONAS RUMINANTIUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MARKOV CHAINS; RUMEN; SELENOMONAS;

HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; SELENOMONAS; SELENOMONAS RUMINANTIUM;

EID: 23844462520     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/w05-004     Document Type: Article

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