Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools
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...more stable than the methyltransferase. When a plasmid is lost, the methyltransferase is degraded and/or...ccdB gene die off and a higher percentage of transformants contain the ccdB-less construct.
Other toxin-antitoxin...composed of restriction endonucleases and methyltransferases. Restriction endonucleases cleave DNA at ...specific nucleotide sequences. To counter this, methyltransferases add methyl groups to bases at specific nucleotide...