Characterisation of site-biased DNA methyltransferases: Specificity, affinity and subsite relationships

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 3818-3830

  McNamara, Andrew R ^a,b   Hurd, Paul J ^a,c   Smith, Alexander E F ^a   Ford, Kevin G ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BioSciences Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME BINDING; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING;

EID: 0036712062     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf501     Document Type: Article

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