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J Bacteriol. 1980 January; 141(1): 275-292

Deoxyribonucleic acid restriction and modification systems in Salmonella: chromosomally located systems of different serotypes.

ABSTRACT

With the use of four different phages, Salmonella strains representing 85 different serotypes were examined to determine their restriction-modification phenotype. They fell into one of three groups on this basis: group 1, those which lacked the common LT system; group 2, those in which only the LT system could be recognized; and group 3. those which possessed the LT system and at least one other system shown with some serotypes to be closely linked to serB. The specificity of the serB-linked restriction-modification system was unique for each serotype, but different strains of the same serotype expressed the same specificity. Two of the systems were shown to behave in genetic crosses as functional alleles of the S. typhimurium SB system. It is possible that these serB-linked restriction-modification systems constitute a large multiallelic series of genes extending throughout the Salmonella genus and Escherichia coli. We suggest that the division of the Salmonella into the three restriction-modification groups may be significant in defining a "biological grouping" of the different serotypes within the genus which may ultimately be useful in describing the Salmonella species. From the genetic relatedness between the genes of some of the Salmonella restriction-modification systems with those of the E. coli systems, we deduce that the restriction endonuclases produced by the Salmonella serB-linked systems are of type 1. Determination of the nucleotide sequences of the recognition sites of the restriction endonucleases of selected Salmonella systems should further our understanding of specificity with these enzymes.

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