The thymine glycosylase MBD4 can bind to the product of deamination at methylated CpG sites

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6750, 1999, Pages 301-304

  Hendrich, Brian ^a   Hardeland, Ulrike ^b   Ng, Huck Hul ^a   Jiricny, Josef ^b   Bird, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMINE DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEAMINATION; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME BINDING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE (PYRIMIDINE DIMER); DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THYMINE; URACIL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033575886     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/45843     Document Type: Article

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