Differential stabilization of reaction intermediates: Specificity checkpoints for M.EcoRI revealed by transient fluorescence and fluorescence lifetime studies

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2917-2925

  Youngblood, Ben ^a   Bonnist, Eleanor ^b   Dryden, David T F ^b   Jones, Anita C ^b   Reich, Norbert O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSYLMETHIONINE DEPENDENT DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CURVED DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MUTATION; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 44349170102     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn131     Document Type: Article

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