African trypanosomes contain 5-methylcytosine in nuclear DNA

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2012-2016

  Militello, Kevin T ^a   Wang, Ping ^b   Jayakar, Sangeeta K ^a   Pietrasik, Rebecca L ^a   Dupont, Christopher D ^a,c   Dodd, Kristi ^a   King, Anthony M ^a   Valenti, Paul R ^a,d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 55749102739     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00198-08     Document Type: Article

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