A candidate mammalian DNA methyltransferase related to pmt1p of fission yeast

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 279-284

  Yoder, Jeffrey A ^a   Bestor, Timothy H ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10P; EMBRYO; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STEM CELL;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; CYTOSINE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FETAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031964577     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.2.279     Document Type: Article

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