Structural characterization of two tandemly arranged DNA methyltransferase genes from Neisseria gonorrhoeae MS11: N4-cytosine specific M.NgoMXV and nonfunctional 5-cytosine-type M.NgoMorf2P

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 717-728

  Radlinska, Monika ^a,b   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^a   Piekarowicz, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral enzymes; Homology modeling; Methyltransferases; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Secondary structure prediction; Sequence alignment; Sequence conservation; Threading

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROSTATICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032705750     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19991201)37:4<717::AID-PROT20>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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