Molecular characterization of a novel temperate Sinorhizobium bacteriophage, ΦLM21, encoding DNA methyltransferase with CcrM like specificity

Journal of Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 13111-13124

  Dziewit, Lukasz ^a   Oscik, Karolina ^a   Bartosik, Dariusz ^a   Radlinska, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE REGULATING METHYLTRANSFERASE; CHITINASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SITE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE SPECIFIC); VIRAL PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE PHI LM21; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE PRODUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LYSOGENIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SIPHOVIRIDAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SIPHOVIRIDAE; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

EID: 84908388235     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01875-14     Document Type: Article

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