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DNA Modification Methylases

"DNA Modification Methylases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "DNA Modification Methylases" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "DNA Modification Methylases" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 120 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2014 and 2018
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