Characterization of type II and III restriction-modification systems from Bacillus cereus strains ATCC 10987 and ATCC 14579

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-60

  Xu, Shung yong ^a   Nugent, Rebecc L ^a   Ksmkttil, Julie ^a   Fomenkov, Alexey ^a   Gupta, Yogesh ^b   Aggarwal, Aneel ^b   Wang, Xiaolong ^c   Li, Zhiru ^a   Zheng, Yu ^a   Morgan, Richard ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HELICASE; NTPASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; TYPE II RESTRICTION MODIFICATION SYSTEM; TYPE III RESTRICTION MODIFICATION SYSTEM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE III SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84862940317     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06248-11     Document Type: Article

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