Mechanism and evolution of DNA recognition by DNA-(adenine N6)- methyltransferases from the ecodam family

DNA and RNA Modification Enzymes: Structure, Mechanism, Function and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 76-86

  Jeltsch, Albert ^a   Jurkowski, Tomasz P ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

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