[Term]
id: PR:000050200
name: DNA restriction-modification system complex
def: "A protein-containing complex that is involved in a defense process that protects the organism from invading foreign DNA by cleaving it with a restriction endonuclease. The organism's own DNA is protected by methylation of a specific nucleotide, which occurs immediately following replication, in the same target site as the restriction enzyme." [GO:0009307, GOC:jl, PRO:DAN]
comment: Category=complex.
synonym: "complex:RMsystem" EXACT PRO-short-label [PRO:DAN]
intersection_of: involved_in GO:0009307 ! DNA restriction-modification system
intersection_of: GO:0032991 ! protein-containing complex