[Term]
id: PR:000050196
name: DNA restriction-modification system protein
def: "A protein 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." [PRO:DAN, GO:0009307, GOC:jl]
comment: Category=family.
synonym: "fam:RMsystem" EXACT PRO-short-label [PRO:DAN]
intersection_of: PR:000000001 ! protein
intersection_of: involved_in GO:0009307 ! DNA restriction-modification system