Human DNMT2 methylates tRNAAsp molecules using a DNA methyltransferase-like catalytic mechanism

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1663-1670

  Jurkowski, Tomasz P ^a   Meusburger, Madeleine ^b   Phalke, Sameer ^c   Helm, Mark ^d   Nellen, Wolfgang ^e   Reuter, Gunter ^c   Jeltsch, Albert ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalytic mechanism; Dnmt2; RNA methylation; tRNAAsp

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNMT2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RNA, TRANSFER, ASP; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 47949107313     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.970408     Document Type: Article

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