Mobility of a Restriction-Modification System Revealed by Its Genetic Contexts in Three Hosts
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Mobility of a restriction-modification system revealed by its genetic contexts in three hosts.
The flow of genes among prokaryotes plays a fundamental role in shaping bacterial evolution, and restriction-modification systems can modulate this flow. However, relatively little is known about the distribution and movement of restriction-modification systems themselves. We have isolated and characterized the genes for restriction-modification systems from two species of Salmonella, S. enteri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.9.2411-2419.2002