Haemophilus influenzae and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Recognize Different Specificity Determinants in the DNA Uptake Step of Genetic Transformation
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Microbiology
- Vol. 128 (5) , 1159-1161
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-128-5-1159
Abstract
Cross-transformation and quantitative competition experiments showed that N. gonorrhoeae and H. influenzae do not interact with each other''s DNA in transformation. These organisms must interact with different recognition sequences during DNA uptake.Keywords
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