Expression of murine DNA methyltransferases Dnmtl and Dnmt3a in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Yeast

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 871-882

  Bulkowska, Urszula ^a,c   Ishikawa, Takao ^a   Kurlandzka, Anna ^b   Trzcińska Danielewicz, Joanna ^a   Derlacz, Rafał ^a,c   Fronk, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^c Adamed Ltd ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; GFP; Heterologous expression; Nuclear localization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSGENE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; YEAST CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 35348999494     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1538     Document Type: Article

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