Biochemical analysis of the substrate specificity and sequence preference of endonuclease IV from bacteriophage T4, a dC-specific endonuclease implicated in restriction of dC-substituted T4 DNA synthesis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4743-4751

  Hirano, Nobutaka ^a   Ohshima, Hiroyuki ^a   Takahashi, Hideo ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYCYTIDINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE IV; GENOMIC DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; WHEAT GERM;

BACTERIOPHAGE PHI X 174; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE IV (PHAGE T4-INDUCED); DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA, VIRAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33750208877     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl553     Document Type: Article

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