Defining the plasmid-borne restriction-modification systems of the lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1161-1171

  Rego, Ryan O M ^a   Bestor, Aaron ^a   Rosa, Patricia A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DNA; PLASMID DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA CLEAVAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOTYPE; LYME DISEASE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 79951591754     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01176-10     Document Type: Article

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