M.Smal is an N4-methylcytosine specific DNA-methylase
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 18 (22) , 6607-6609
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/18.22.6607
Abstract
An enzymatic activity rendering DNA immune to the action of the Smal restriction endonuclease in the presence of S-adenosyl-L-methionine has been detected in Serratia marcescens Sb. This methylase, M. Smal, modifies the second cytosine residue of the substrate sequence CCCGGG yielding N4-methylcytosine.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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