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ArticleNucleic acids research2008

Differential stabilization of reaction intermediates: specificity checkpoints for M.EcoRI revealed by transient fluorescence and fluorescence lifetime studies.

Ben Youngblood, Eleanor Bonnist, David T F Dryden, Anita C Jones, Norbert O Reich

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The highly specific, cell cycle-regulated methyltransferase fromThe Journal of biological chemistry · 2018
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  3. Mechanistic insights into editing-site specificity of ADARs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ben YoungbloodProgram in Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510, USA.
Eleanor Bonnist
David T F Dryden
Anita C Jones
Norbert O Reich
University of California, Santa Barbara · USUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

M.EcoRI, a bacterial sequence-specific S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent DNA methyltransferase, relies on a complex conformational mechanism to achieve its remarkable specificity, including DNA bending, base flipping and intercalation into the DNA. Using transient fluorescence and fluorescence lifetime studies with cognate and noncognate DNA, we have characterized several reaction intermediates involving the WT enzyme. Similar studies with a bending-impaired, enhanced-specificity M.EcoRI mutant show minimal differences with the cognate DNA, but significant differences with noncognate DNA. These results provide a plausible explanation of the way in which destabilization of reaction intermediates can lead to changes in substrate specificity.

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DNAFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferKineticsMutationSite-Specific DNA-Methyltransferase (Adenine-Specific)Substrate SpecificityDNADNA modification methylase EcoRISite-Specific DNA-Methyltransferase (Adenine-Specific)

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PMID18385156
PMCPMC2396439
OpenAlexW2139341260

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