Engineering the DNA cytosine-5 methyltransferase reaction for sequence-specific labeling of DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 11594-11602

  Lukinavičius, Gražvydas ^a   Lapinaite, Audrone ^a   Urbanavičiute, Giedre ^a   Gerasimaite, Ruta ^a   Klimašauskas, Saulius ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ALKYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA; DNA-CYTOSINE METHYLASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC);

EID: 84871255735     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks914     Document Type: Article

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