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EUKARYOTIC CYTOSINE METHYLTRANSFERASES

Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2005
▪ Abstract  Large-genome eukaryotes use heritable cytosine methylation to silence promoters, especially those associated with transposons and imprinted genes. Cytosine methylation does not reinforce or replace ancestral gene regulation pathways but instead endows methylated genomes with the ability to repress specific promoters in a manner that is ...
Mary Grace, Goll, Timothy H, Bestor
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Phenol-O-methyltransferase

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Enzymology, 1968
An enzyme that transfers the methyl group of S-adenosylmethionine to phenol to form anisole is described. The enzyme is highly localized in the microsomes of the liver and lung of mammals and is also present in other tissues. A variety of simple alkyl-, methoxy- and halophenols can serve as substrates for the phenol-O-methylating enzyme.
J, Axelrod, J, Daly
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The phospholipid methyltransferases in yeast

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism, 1997
In fungal microorganisms including fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, two enzymes are required to catalyze the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine (PC) from phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). The genes encoding the class I and class II phospholipid N-methyltransferases (PLMTs) have been cloned from both ...
M I, Kanipes, S A, Henry
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DNA Methyltransferase Assays

2011
DNA methyltransferases are important enzymes and their inhibition has many potential applications. The investigation of DNA methyltransferases as well as screening for potential inhibitors requires specialized enzyme assays. In this chapter, we describe three DNA methyltransferase assays, each of them based on a different method: (1) An assay using ...
Renata Z, Jurkowska   +4 more
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Pharmacogenomics: Catechol O-Methyltransferase to Thiopurine S-Methyltransferase

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, 2006
1. Pharmacogenomics is the study of the role of inheritance in variation in the drug response phenotype-a phenotype that can vary from adverse drug reactions at one end of the spectrum to lack of therapeutic efficacy at the other. 2. The thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) genetic polymorphism represents one of the best characterized and most ...
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Microassay for DNA methyltransferase

Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods, 1991
A microassay for DNA methylase is described which can detect activity in as few as 50 tissue culture cells. The cells are lysed and incubated for 2 h at 37 degrees C with 3 microCi high specific activity [3H]AdoMet and 0.5 microgram poly[d(I-C).d(I-C)] in a volume of 23 microliters.
R L, Adams, A, Rinaldi, C, Seivwright
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Histone methyltransferases in cancer

Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2010
Cancer is perceived as a heterogeneous group of diseases that is characterized by aberrant patterns of gene expression. In the last decade, an increasing amount of data has pointed to a key role for epigenetic alterations in human cancer. In this review, we focus on a subclass of epigenetic regulators, namely histone methyltransferases (HMTs).
Albert, Mareike, Helin, Kristian
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Immobilization of S-Methyltransferase

Enzyme, 2017
S-methyltransferase was solubilized from pig liver microsomes by treatment with N-dodecyl-N,N-dimethyl-3-ammonio-l-sulfonate (Zwittergent®). The soluble enzyme was immobilized by covalent binding to agarose and by copolymerization with acrylamide. The specific activity for the agarose-bound enzyme towards the substrate ethane thiol was 0.87 nmol/min/mg
G, Brunner, F, Tegtmeier
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Plant DNA methyltransferases

Plant Molecular Biology, 2000
DNA methylation is an important modification of DNA that plays a role in genome management and in regulating gene expression during development. Methylation is carried out by DNA methyltransferases which catalyse the transfer of a methyl group to bases within the DNA helix.
E J, Finnegan, K A, Kovac
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