m5C RNA and m5C DNA methyl transferases use different cysteine residues as catalysts.

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Summary

Surprisingly, the mutant of the putative Cys catalyst in the ProCys sequence was active and formed a covalent complex with 5-fluorocytosine-containing RNA, whereas the mutant at the other conserved Cys was inactive and unable to form the complex.

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2000-07-18
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Keywords

RNA, DNA, Conserved sequence, Biology, Transfer RNA

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