Lack of correlation between binding of EcoRII methyltransferase to DNA duplexes containing mismatches and the promotion of C to T mutations

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 54-59

  Sheluho, D ^a   Yebra, M J ^a,b   Khariwala, S S ^a   Bhagwat, A S ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cytosine methylation; Mismatch correction; Mutational hotspots; Uracil DNA glycosylase

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; THYMINE; URACIL;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; BINDING SITES; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KANAMYCIN; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POINT MUTATION; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030839488     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050474     Document Type: Article

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