Cytosine-specific type II DNA methyltransferases. A conserved enzyme core with variable target-recognizing domains - PubMed (original) (raw)
Cytosine-specific type II DNA methyltransferases. A conserved enzyme core with variable target-recognizing domains
R Lauster et al. J Mol Biol. 1989.
Abstract
Comparisons of the amino acid sequences of m5C DNA methyltransferases (Mtases) from 11 prokaryotes and one eukaryote reveal a very similar organization. Among all the enzymes one can distinguish highly conserved "core" sequences and "variable" regions. The core sequences apparently mediate steps of the methylation reaction that are common to all the enzymes. The major variable region has been shown in our previous studies on multispecific phage Mtases to contain the target-recognizing domains (TRDs) of these enzymes. Here we have compared the amino acid sequences of various TRDs from phage Mtases. This has revealed the presence of both highly conserved and variable amino acids. We postulate that the conserved residues represent a "consensus" sequence defining a TRD, whereas the specificity of the TRD is determined by the variable residues. We have observed similarity between this consensus sequence and sequences in the variable region of the monospecific Mtases. We predict that the regions thus identified represent part of the TRDs of monospecific Mtases.
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