Herpetosiphon giganteus explained

Herpetosiphon giganteus is a species of bacteria in the genus Herpetosiphon known to produce 16 restriction enzymes.

H. giganteus has been studied for its gliding motility.^[1]

External links

• 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

Notes and References

1. http://www.sid.ir/en/VEWSSID/J_pdf/84920040103.pdf Isolation of Herpetosiphon giganteus and ultrastructure analysis by electron microscopy. Nowroozi J., Mirzaii M. and Tabatabi P. Iranian biomedical journal, 1996