Structural model for the multisubunit Type IC restriction-modification DNA methyltransferase M.EcoR124I in complex with DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1992-2005

  Obarska, Agnieszka ^a   Blundell, Alex ^b   Feder, Marcin ^a   Vejsadová, Štěpánka ^b,c   Šišáková, Eva ^c   Weiserová, Marie ^c   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^a   Firman, Keith ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; LYSINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN ECOR124I; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ECOR124 MODIFICATION METHYLASE TYPE I; HSDM PROTEIN, BACTERIA; HSDS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; SITE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE SPECIFIC);

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA BINDING; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA RESTRICTION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC);

EID: 33645821020     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl132     Document Type: Article

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