Mechanistic details of the DNA recognition by the Dnmt1 DNA methyltransferase

FEBS Letters

Volumn 586, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1821-1823

  Bashtrykov, Pavel ^a   Ragozin, Sergey ^a   Jeltsch, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Enzyme mechanism; Enzyme specificity; Molecular epigenetic

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RECOGNITION; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84862503948     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.05.026     Document Type: Article

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