Expression, purification, mass spectrometry, crystallization and multiwavelength anomalous diffraction of selenomethionyl PvuII DNA methyltransferase (cytosine-N4-specific)

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 247, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1009-1018

  O'Gara, Margaret ^a   Adams, Gail M ^b   Gong, Weimin ^a   Kobayashi, Ryuji ^a   Blumenthal, Robert M ^b   Cheng, Xiaodong ^a,c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino methylation; Mass spectrometry; Multiwavelength anomalous diffraction; Selenomethionine; Type II DNA (cytosine N4) methyltransferase

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; SELENOMETHIONINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030738918     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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