A gene essential for de novo methylation and development in ascobolus reveals a novel type of eukaryotic DNA methyltransferase structure

Cell

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 281-290

  Malagnac, Fabienne ^a,c   Wendel, Birgit ^b,d   Goyon, Christophe ^a   Faugeron, Godeleine ^a,c   Zickler, Denise ^a   Rossignol, Jean Luc ^a,c   Noyer Weidner, Mario ^b,e   Vollmayr, Peter ^b   Trautner, Thomas A ^b   Walter, Jörn ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^d MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e Walter de Gruyter and Co   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CATALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE DISRUPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPRODUCTION;

ASCOBOLUS; ASCOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0030726203     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80410-9     Document Type: Article

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