The Helicobacter pylori HpyAXII restriction-modification system limits exogenous DNA uptake by targeting GTAC sites but shows asymmetric conservation of the DNA methyltransferase and restriction endonuclease components

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 6893-6906

  Humbert, Olivier ^a   Salama, Nina R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICE; PLASMIDS; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 57149101710     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn718     Document Type: Article

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