Is the HemK family of putative S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferases a 'missing' ζ subfamily of adenine methyltransferases? A hypothesis

IUBMB Life

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 247-249

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

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

HemK; Modification methylases; Molecular evolution; Multiple sequence alignment; Sequence comparison; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

ADENINE DERIVATIVE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYMOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC);

EID: 0032730192     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/152165499306919     Document Type: Article

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