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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 17, Pages 3216-3223Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.17.3216
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R44GM056535, R43GM056535] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM56535] Funding Source: Medline
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Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative bacterium, which colonizes the gastric mucosa of humans and is implicated in a wide range of gastroduodenal diseases. The genomic sequences of two H,pylori strains, 26695 and J99, have been published recently. About two dozen. potential restriction-modification (R-NI) systems have been annotated in both genomes, which is far above the average number of R-M systems in other sequenced genomes. Here we describe a functional analysis of the 16 putative Type II R-WI systems in the H,pylori J99 genome. To express potentially toxic endonuclease genes, a unique vector was constructed, which features repression and antisense transcription as dual control elements. To determine the methylation activities of putative DNA methyltransferases, we developed polyclonal antibodies able to detect DNA containing N6-methyladenine or N4-methylcytosine. We found that <30% of the potential Type II R-M systems in H. pylori J99 strain were fully functional, displaying both endonuclease and methyltransferase activities. Helicobacter pylori may maintain a variety of functional R-M systems, which are believed to be a primitive bacterial 'immune' system, by alternatively turning on/off a subset of numerous R-M systems.
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