A single amino acid substitution confers enhanced methylation activity of mammalian Dnmt3b on chromatin DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 6054-6064

  Shen, Li ^a,b   Gao, Ge ^c   Zhang, Ying ^a,b   Zhang, He ^c   Ye, Zhiqiang ^c   Huang, Shichao ^a,b   Huang, Jinyan ^d   Kang, Jiuhong ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; ISOLEUCINE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 78049423376     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq456     Document Type: Article

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