Effect of site-specific methylation on restriction endonucleases and DNA modification methyltransferases
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Restriction endonucleases have site-specific interactions with DNA that can often be inhibited by site-specific DNA methylation and other site-specific DNA modifications. However, such inhibition cannot generally be predicted. The empirically acquired data on these effects are tabulated for over 320 restriction endonucleases. In addition, a table of known site-specific DNA modification methyltransferases and their specificities is presented along with EMBL database accession numbers for cloned genes.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Nucleic acids research
دوره 21 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993