Chlorella virus SC-1A encodes at least five functional and one nonfunctional DNA methyltransferases

Gene

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 237-244

  Que, Qiudeng ^a,b   Zhang, Yanping ^a,c   Nelson, Michael ^a   Ropp, Susan ^a,d   Burbank, Dwight E ^a   Van Etten, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Megabase Research Products   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

5 Methyldeoxycytosine methyltransferase; 5 Methyldeoxycytosine methyltransferase pseudogene; N6 methyldeoxyadenine methyltransferase; Recombinant DNA

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; VIRUS ENZYME;

ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; CHLORELLA VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHLORELLA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; DNA, VIRAL; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYCODNAVIRIDAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030908254     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00862-1     Document Type: Article

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