Dam inactivation in Neisseria meningitidis: prevalence among diverse hyperinvasive lineages
Background: DNA adenine methyltransferase (Dam) activity is absent in many, but not all, disease isolates of Neisseria meningitidis, as a consequence of the insertion of a restriction endonucleaseencoding gene, the 'dam replacing gene' (drg) at the dam locus. Here, we report the results of...
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BioMed Central
2004
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