The other face of restriction: modification-dependent enzymes
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The other face of restriction: modification-dependent enzymes
The 1952 observation of host-induced non-hereditary variation in bacteriophages by Salvador Luria and Mary Human led to the discovery in the 1960s of modifying enzymes that glucosylate hydroxymethylcytosine in T-even phages and of genes encoding corresponding host activities that restrict non-glucosylated phage DNA: rglA and rglB (restricts glucoseless phage). In the 1980's, appreciation of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1362-4962,0305-1048
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt747