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Mutations of the domain forming the dimeric interface of the ArdA protein affect dimerization and antimodification activity but not antirestriction activity.
The FEBS journal - 1 Oct 2013
Roberts Gareth A, Chen Kai, Bower Edward K M, Madrzak Julia, Woods Arcadia, Barker Amy M, Cooper Laurie P, White John H, Blakely Garry W, Manfield Iain, Dryden David T F
Abstract excerpt
ArdA antirestriction proteins are encoded by genes present in many conjugative plasmids and transposons within bacterial genomes. Antirestriction is the ability to prevent cleavage of foreign incoming DNA by restriction-modification (RM) systems. Antimodification, the ability to inhibit modificat...
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