Removal of a frameshift between the hsdM and hsdS genes of the EcoKI Type IA DNA restriction and modification system produces a new type of system and links the different families of Type i systems

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 10916-10924

  Roberts, Gareth A ^a   Chen, Kai ^a   Cooper, Laurie P ^a   White, John H ^a   Blakely, Garry W ^a   Dryden, David T F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA RESTRICTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HSDM GENE; HSDS GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TYPE I SECRETION SYSTEM;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLIPHAGES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE I SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84870592248     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks876     Document Type: Article

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