Mutational Analysis of the Function of Met137 and Ile197, Two Amino Acids Implicated in Sequence-Specific DNA Recognition by theEcoRI Endonuclease

Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler

Volumn 379, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 459-466

  Ivanenko, Tatyana ^a   Kiss, Antal ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DNA, VIRAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031970935     PISSN: 01773593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1998.379.4-5.459     Document Type: Article

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