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Natural transformation of an engineered Helicobacter pylori strain deficient in type II restriction endonucleases.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jul 2012
Zhang Xue-Song, Blaser Martin J
Abstract excerpt
Restriction-modification (RM) systems are important for bacteria to limit foreign DNA invasion. The naturally competent bacterium Helicobacter pylori has highly diverse strain-specific type II systems. To evaluate the roles of strain-specific restriction in H. pylori natural transformation, a markerless type II restriction endonuclease-deficient (REd) mutant was constructed. We deleted the genes encoding all four...
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