Volume 186, no. 7, p. 2061-2067, 2004. Descriptions of experimental procedures, literature review, interpretations of data, and conclusions were cited verbatim, and without proper citation or permission, from the following papers: G. Zweiger, G. Marczynski, and L. Shapiro, J. Mol. Biol. 235:472-485, 1994; L. S. Kahng and L. Shapiro, J. Bacteriol. 183:3065-3075, 2001; and A. Reisenauer, L. S. Kahng, S. McCollum, and L. Shapiro., J. Bacteriol. 181:5135-5139, 1999. R. S. Lloyd did not participate in the writing of this paper and was unaware that the manuscript contained any plagiarized material. V. G. Kossykh agrees. We apologize to the authors of the above-mentioned articles and to the editors of the Journal of Molecular Biology and the Journal of Bacteriology for this unfortunate occurrence.
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A DNA Adenine Methyltransferase of Escherichia coli That Is Cell Cycle Regulated and Essential for Viability
Valeri G Kossykh
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Valeri G Kossykh
1Sealy Center for Molecular Science and Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77555-1071
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R Stephen Lloyd
1Sealy Center for Molecular Science and Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77555-1071
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1Sealy Center for Molecular Science and Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77555-1071
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