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SUBMITTER: Mahony J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2570291 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Applied and environmental microbiology 20080822 20
Superinfection exclusion (Sie) proteins are prophage-encoded phage resistance systems. In this study, genes encoding Sie systems were identified on the genomes of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363 and L. lactis subsp. lactis IL1403. These Sie systems are genetically distinct and yet were shown to act specifically against a particular subset of the 936 phage group. Each of the systems allows normal phage adsorption while affecting plasmid transduction and intracellular phage DNA replicati ...[more]