Herpetosiphon giganteus is a species of bacteria in the genus Herpetosiphon known to produce 16 restriction enzymes.
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| Species: | H. giganteus
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| Herpetosiphon giganteus (ex Reichenbach and Golecki 1975) Pan et al. 2017
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H. giganteus has been studied for its gliding motility.[1]
References
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edit- Restriction endonucleases from Herpetosiphon giganteus: an example of the evolution of DNA recognition specificity? P R Whitehead, D Jacobs, and N L Brown, Nucleic Acids Res. 1986 September 11; 14(17): 7031–7045.
- Type strain of Herpetosiphon giganteus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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