Real-time kinetics of restriction-modification gene expression after entry into a new host cell

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2581-2593

  Mruk, Iwona ^a,b   Blumenthal, Robert M ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; CELL GROWTH; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME KINETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 43349095997     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn097     Document Type: Article

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