In Vitro CpG Methylation Increases the Transformation Efficiency of Borrelia burgdorferi trains Harboring the Endogenous Linear Plasmid lp56

Qiang Chen, Joshua R. Fischer, Vivian M. Benoit, Nicholas P. Dufour, Philip Youderian and John M. Leong

Journal of Bacteriology 190 ( 24 ): 7885 - 7891 , 2008