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Prereplicative purine methylation and postreplicative demethylation in each DNA duplication of the Escherichia coli replication cycle.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 3 Dec 2004
Maas Renata
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli plasmid DNA activated for initiation of duplication is in a stable low linking number supercoiled conformation. Low linking number DNA is methylated at the internal purines of a frequent 5'-Pyr-Pyr-Pur-Pur tetramer with a 5'-Pyr-Pur-3' axis of symmetry and is cut at the axis of symmetry by pneumococcal restriction enzyme DpnI when methylated in both strands. Purine methylation is of adenine in...
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