The Dnmt2 RNA methyltransferase homolog of Geobacter sulfurreducens specifically methylates tRNA-Glu

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6487-6496

  Shanmugam, Raghuvaran ^a   Aklujkar, Muktak ^b   Schäfer, Matthias ^c   Reinhardt, Richard ^d   Nickel, Olaf ^e   Reuter, Gunter ^e   Lovley, Derek R ^b   Ehrenhofer Murray, Ann ^f   Nellen, Wolfgang ^g   Ankri, Serge ^h   Helm, Mark ⁱ   Jurkowski, Tomasz P ^a   Jeltsch, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^d Max Planck Genomzentrum   (Germany)

^e MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^h TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

ⁱ JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 2; GLUTAMIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GEOBACTER; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MICE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER, ASP; RNA, TRANSFER, GLU; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 84903140945     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku256     Document Type: Article

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