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Regulation of the HpyII restriction-modification system of Helicobacter pylori by gene deletion and horizontal reconstitution.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Oct 2001
Aras R A, Takata T, Ando T, van der Ende A, Blaser M J
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori, Gram-negative, curved bacteria colonizing the human stomach, possess strain-specific complements of functional restriction-modification (R-M) systems. Restriction-modification systems have been identified in most bacterial species studied and are believed to have evolved to protect the host genome from invasion by foreign DNA. The large number of R-Ms homologous to those in other bacterial...
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