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. 1990 Jun;56(6):1960-2.
doi: 10.1128/aem.56.6.1960-1962.1990.

DNA Is Packaged within Membrane-Derived Vesicles of Gram-Negative but Not Gram-Positive Bacteria

D W Dorward  1 , C F Garon
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DNA Is Packaged within Membrane-Derived Vesicles of Gram-Negative but Not Gram-Positive Bacteria

D W Dorward et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1990 Jun.

Abstract

Recently, DNA packaged within nuclease-resistant membrane vesicles of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Borrelia burgdorferi was described. This study assayed 18 species of gram-negative and gram-positive eubacteria for nuclease-protected DNA associated with extracellular membrane vesicles. Vesicles from only the gram-negative bacteria contained nuclease-protected linear or supercoiled DNAs or both.

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