Defining the location and function of domains of McrB by deletion mutagenesis

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1225-1230

  Pieper, Uwe ^a   Schweitzer, Thomas ^a   Groll, Detlef H ^a   Pingoud, Alfred ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 Methylcytosine; DNA binding; Gel retardation; GTP binding; GTPase; McrBC restriction; Restriction enzymes

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; DNA BINDING; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA METHYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032701969     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.155     Document Type: Article

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