Extreme C-to-A Hypermutation at a Site of Cytosine-N4 Methylation.

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Methylation of cytosine in DNA at position C5 increases the rate of C→T mutations in bacteria and eukaryotes. Methylation at the N4 position, employed by some restriction-modification systems, is not known to increase the mutation rate. Here, I report that a Salmonella enterica Type III restriction-modification system that includes a cytosine-N4 methyltransferase causes an enormous increase in the rate of...

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