Functional analysis of an acid adaptive DNA adenine methyltransferase from Helicobacter pylori 26695

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Banerjee, Arun ^a   Rao, Desirazu N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVALENT CATION; DNA ADENINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE ECOP1I; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASE ECOP15I; SITE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE SPECIFIC);

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI 26695;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79951799075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016810     Document Type: Article

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