Site dcm
- Name: dcm
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b1961 MG1655 locus tag mec - Mnemonic: DNA cytosine methylation
- Left End Point: 43.73
- Right End Point: 43.77
- Products:
DNA cytosine methylase - Direction: <
- Priority: 1
- 3 Alleles of This Gene
dcm-6 dcm-735(del)::kan dcm-835(del)::FRT - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank X13330 EcoGene.org EG10211 EcoliWiki dcm - Comment:
- internal cytosine methylated. From M.Marinus,1979: Recognition sequence = CCAGG. Determined by Stanley Hattman, Rochester. Percent ade and cyt methylated? 2% and 1% resp. Selec. Pheno.
- References:
- Friedman, S. 1982. Bactericidal effect of 5-azacytidine on Escherichia coli carrying EcoRII restriction-modification enzymes. J.Bacteriol. 151:262-268
- Bhagwat, A.S., A. Sohail, R.J. Roberts 1986. Cloning and characterization of the dcm locus of Escherichia coli K-12. J.Bacteriol. 166:751-755
- Hanck, T., N. Gerwin, H.J. Fritz 1989. Nucleotide sequence of the dcm locus of Escherichia coli K12. Nucleic Acids Res. 17:5844