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A role for single-stranded exonucleases in the use of DNA as a nutrient.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jun 2009
Palchevskiy Vyacheslav, Finkel Steven E
Abstract excerpt
Nutritional competence is the ability of bacterial cells to utilize exogenous double-stranded DNA molecules as a nutrient source. We previously identified several genes in Escherichia coli that are important for this process and proposed a model, based on models of natural competence and transformation in bacteria, where it is assumed that single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) is degraded following entry into the...
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