Extensive DNA mimicry by the ArdA anti-restriction protein and its role in the spread of antibiotic resistance

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 4887-4897

  McMahon, Stephen A ^a   Roberts, Gareth A ^b   Johnson, Kenneth A ^a   Cooper, Laurie P ^b   Liu, Huanting ^a   White, John H ^b   Carter, Lester G ^a   Sanghvi, Bansi ^b   Oke, Muse ^a   Walkinshaw, Malcolm D ^b   Blakely, Garry W ^b   Naismith, James H ^a   Dryden, David T F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA B; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN ARDA; TYPE I SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE I SITE-SPECIFIC; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 69849087746     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp478     Document Type: Article

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