DNA Modification Methylases
"DNA Modification Methylases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Enzymes that are part of the restriction-modification systems. They are responsible for producing a species-characteristic methylation pattern, on either adenine or cytosine residues, in a specific short base sequence in the host cell's own DNA. This methylated sequence will occur many times in the host-cell DNA and remain intact for the lifetime of the cell. Any DNA from another species which gains entry into a living cell and lacks the characteristic methylation pattern will be recognized by the restriction endonucleases of similar specificity and destroyed by cleavage. Most have been studied in bacterial systems, but a few have been found in eukaryotic organisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D015254
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.150.240 D08.811.913.555.500.350
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| Concept/Terms |
DNA Modification Methylases- DNA Modification Methylases
- Methylases, DNA Modification
- Modification Methylases, DNA
- Modification Methylases
- Methylases, Modification
- DNA Modification Methyltransferases
- Methyltransferases, DNA Modification
- Modification Methyltransferases, DNA
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Pham TD, MacLennan NK, Chiu CT, Laksana GS, Hsu JL, Lane RH. Uteroplacental insufficiency increases apoptosis and alters p53 gene methylation in the full-term IUGR rat kidney. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2003 Nov; 285(5):R962-70.