The influence of the exocyclic pyrimidine 5-methyl group on DNAse I cleavage and sequence recognition by drugs

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1489, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 233-248

  Minnock, Andrew ^a   Crow, Stephen ^a   Bailly, Christian ^b   Waring, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

5 Methyl cytosine; DACA; Daunomycin; DNAse I; Methyl group; Sequence recognition; SN16713; Uridine

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; 9 [[2 METHOXY 4(METHYLSULFONYLAMINO)PHENYL]AMINO] N [2 (DIMETHYLAMINO)ETHYL]ACRIDINE 4 CARBOXAMIDE; CYTIDINE; CYTOSINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; INTERCALATING AGENT; METHYL GROUP; N (2 DIMETHYLAMINOETHYL) 4 ACRIDINECARBOXAMIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE; SN 16713; THYMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DRUG DNA BINDING; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032737526     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(99)00188-8     Document Type: Article

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