Type III restriction endonucleases are heterotrimeric: Comprising one helicase-nuclease subunit and a dimeric methyltransferase that binds only one specific DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5139-5150

  Butterer, Annika ^a   Pernstich, Christian ^b   Smith, Rachel M ^b   Sobott, Frank ^a   Szczelkun, Mark D ^b   Tóth, Júlia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ECOP15I PROTEIN; ECOPI PROTEIN; HELICASE; HOLOENZYME; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; NUCLEASE; PSTII PROTEIN; TYPE III SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA CLEAVAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN METHYLATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE III SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; HOLOENZYMES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC);

EID: 84899868534     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku122     Document Type: Article

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