Dam methyltransferase from Escherichia coli: Kinetic studies using modified DNA oligomers: Nonmethylated substrates

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 407-415

  Thielking, Vera ^a,c   Du Bois, Stephen ^a   Eritja, Ramon ^b,d   Guschlbauer, Wilhelm ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^c Chibret Deutschland   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 amino adenine; DNA adenine methylation; Ethyl uracil; Inosine; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; METHYLTRANSFERASE; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

2-AMINOPURINE; ADENINE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANINE; HYPOXANTHINE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); SOFTWARE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; THYMINE; URACIL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030957287     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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