Lieb M, Bhagwat A S
Department of Microbiology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033.
J Bacteriol. 1988 Oct;170(10):4967-8. doi: 10.1128/jb.170.10.4967-4968.1988.
The only cytosine methylase in Escherichia coli K-12 methylates the second cytosine in the sequence CC (A/T)GG and is encoded by gene dcm. Methylation and very short patch mismatch repair activities lacking in a dcm mutant of E. coli were restored by a plasmid containing the cloned dcm gene. In contrast, plasmids with the gene for EcoRII methylase, which is a homolog of dcm, restored only cytosine methylase activity and not mismatch repair.
大肠杆菌K-12中唯一的胞嘧啶甲基化酶可使序列CC(A/T)GG中的第二个胞嘧啶发生甲基化,该酶由dcm基因编码。含有克隆dcm基因的质粒可恢复大肠杆菌dcm突变体中缺乏的甲基化和极短片段错配修复活性。相比之下,携带与dcm同源的EcoRII甲基化酶基因的质粒只能恢复胞嘧啶甲基化酶活性,而不能恢复错配修复活性。