Function and disruption of DNA Methyltransferase 3a cooperative DNA binding and nucleoprotein filament formation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 569-580

  Rajavelu, Arumugam ^a   Jurkowska, Renata Z ^a   Fritz, Jürgen ^a   Jeltsch, Albert ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN VITRO STUDY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MAMMAL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOCATALYSIS; DNA; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HETEROCHROMATIN; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NIH 3T3 CELLS; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84855890772     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr753     Document Type: Article

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