Stability of EcoRI Restriction-Modification Enzymes In Vivo Differentiates the EcoRI Restriction-Modification System from Other Postsegregational Cell Killing Systems
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Stability of EcoRI restriction-modification enzymes in vivo differentiates the EcoRI restriction-modification system from other postsegregational cell killing systems.
Certain type II restriction modification gene systems can kill host cells when these gene systems are eliminated from the host cells. Such ability to cause postsegregational killing of host cells is the feature of bacterial addiction modules, each of which consists of toxin and antitoxin genes. With these addiction modules, the differential stability of toxin and antitoxin molecules in cells pl...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.19.6612-6621.2005