Dimeric/oligomeric DNA methyltransferases: An unfinished story

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 390, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 835-844

  Malygin, Ernst G ^a   Evdokimov, Alexey A ^a   Hattman, Stanley ^b  

^a STATE RESEARCH CENTER OF VIROLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY VECTOR   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methyltransferase; Enzyme dimerization; Kinetics; Synthetic DNA duplexes

Indexed keywords

DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ENDONUCLEASE; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 70349448467     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2009.082     Document Type: Review

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