Restriction–modification systems and bacteriophage invasion: Who wins?
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Restriction-modification systems and bacteriophage invasion: who wins?
The success of a phage that infects a bacterial cell possessing a restriction-modification (R-M) system depends on the activities of the host methyltransferase and restriction endonuclease, and the number of susceptible sites in the phage genome. However, there is no model describing this dependency and linking it to observable parameters such as the fraction of surviving cells under excess pha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.07.006