Molecular evolution of DNA-(cytosine-N4) methyItransferases: evidence for their polyphyletic origin
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Molecular evolution of DNA-(cytosine-N4) methyltransferases: evidence for their polyphyletic origin.
DNA N4-cytosine methyltransferases (N4mC MTases) are a family of S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet)-dependent MTases. Members of this family were previously found to share nine conserved sequence motifs, but the evolutionary basis of these similarities has never been studied in detail. We performed phylogenetic analysis of 37 known and potential new family members from the multiple sequence align...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0305-1048,1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/27.22.4501