Dynamic modes of the flipped-out cytosine during Hhal methyltransferase-DNA interactions in solution

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 317-324

  Klimašauskas, Saulius ^a   Szyperski, Thomas ^b   Serva, Saulius ^a   Wüthrich, Kurt ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

5 fluorocytosine; 19F NMR; Cytosine 5 methyltransferase; DNA base flipping; DNA methylation

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FLUCYTOSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HELIX; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BASE COMPOSITION; CYTOSINE; DNA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); SOLUTIONS;

EID: 0242444679     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.1.317     Document Type: Article

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