Determinants of precatalytic conformational transitions in the DNA cytosine methyltransferase M.HhaI

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1465-1473

  Matje, Douglas M ^a   Coughlin, Dylan F ^a   Connolly, Bernard A ^b   Dahlquist, Frederick W ^a   Reich, Norbert O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE FLIPPING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; DIRECT READOUT; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASES; DNA RECOGNITION; DNA SUBSTRATES; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; GROOVE RECOGNITION; HYDROGEN BONDINGS; LOOP CLOSURE; METHYL TRANSFERS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; NUCLEOBASES; RATE DETERMINING STEP; REAL TIME MONITORING; RECOGNITION SEQUENCE; SITE-SPECIFIC MODIFICATIONS; TRYPTOPHAN FLUORESCENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; CATALYSIS; DNA; ENZYMES; HYDROGEN; INVERSE KINEMATICS; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

HYDROGEN BONDS;

CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEN BOND; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-CYTOSINE METHYLASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 79952163885     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi101446g     Document Type: Article

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