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Query: EC:2.1.1.113 (restriction-modification system)
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-cytosine methylation specified by the wild-type Escherichia coli K 12 mec+ gene and by the N-3 drug resistance (R) factor was studied in vivo and in vitro. Phage lambda and fd were propagated in the presence of L-[methyl-3H]methionine in various host bacteria. The in vivo labeled DNA was isolated from purified phage and depurinated by formic acid-diphenylamine treatment. The resulting pyrimidine oligonucleotide tracts were separated according to size and base composition by chromatography on diethylaminoethyl-cellulose in 7 M urea at pH 5.5 and 3.5, respectively. The distribution of labeled 5-methylcytosine in DNA pyrimidine tracts was identical for phage grown in mec+ and mec minus (N-3) cells. For phage lambda the major 5-methylcytosine containing tract was the tripyrimidine, C2T; for both fd-mec minus (N-3) DNA and fd-mec+DNA, C2T was the sole 5-methylcytosine-containing tract. When various lambda DNAs were methylated to saturation in vitro by crude extracts from mec+ and mec minus (N-3) cells, the extent of cytosine methylation was the same. This is in contrast to in vivo methylation where lambda-mec minus (N-3) DNA contains twice as many 5-methylcytosines per genome as lambda-mec+ DNA. Therefore, we suggest that the K12 met+ cytosine methylase and the N-3 plasmid modification methylase are capable of recognizing the same nucleotide sequences, but that the in vivo methylation rate is lower in mec+ cells.
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PMID:Deoxyribonucleic acid-cytosine methylation by host- and plasmid-controlled enzymes. 109 19

Strain 1485IN and its derivatives were found to have a large inversion extending to about 35% of the chromosome. Because of this, the question arose as to whether 1485IN had arisen from an Escherichia coli strain other than K12. However, 1485IN had a flagellar antigen and a restriction-modification system indistinguishable from those of W3110, a major line of K12, and had retained an amber suppressor and lambda sensitivity that are characteristics of W1485 from which this strain seems to have arisen. Strain 1485IN had acquired proline auxotrophy, but showed the same growth rate as W1485 in nutrient broth at 37 degrees C. Interrupted matings with Hfr strains of 1485IN revealed a gene arrangement of nalA-gal-trp-his-lac-proA-thrleu-ilv, in which gal, trp, and his were on the inverted segment. The termini of the inversion were inferred to be situated between tsx (9.5 min) and purE (12 min) and between his (44 min) and cdd (46.5 min).
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PMID:A naturally occurring large chromosomal inversion in Escherichia coli K12. 354 22

At least one plasmid from each of the incompatibility groups B, C, FIV, H2/S, I alpha, I delta, P, W and X was shown to be capable of transfer from Escherichia coli K12 to Acinetobacter calcoaceticus EBF65/65. Transfer was influenced by the presence of pAV2 (thought to encode a restriction-modification system) in the recipient strain; however, not all plasmids belonging to a particular incompatibility group behaved identically. All plasmids were unstable to varying degrees in A. calcoaceticus EBF65/65, but under suitable conditions were capable of transfer to further strains of EBF65/65 and re-transfer to E. coli K12. Of 40 recently isolated trimethoprim R plasmids 31 transferred successfully from E. coli K12 to A. calcoaceticus EBF65/65, but 17 of these 31 required the introduction of a second mobilizing plasmid for re-transfer to occur.
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PMID:Plasmid transfer and behaviour in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus EBF65/65. 385 20