Cloning of Nt.CviQII nicking endonuclease and its cognate methyltransferase: M.CviQII methylates AG sequences

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 138-150

  Chan, Siu hong ^a   Zhu, Zhenyu ^a   Dunigan, David D ^b   Van Etten, James L ^b   Xu, Shuang yong ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorella virus; Intein mediated peptide ligation; Methyltransferases; Nicking endonucleases; Restriction modification system

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; ENDONUCLEASES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

CHLORELLA VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA CHLORELLA VIRUS NY2A;

EID: 33746830910     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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