Fox K R
Biochem J. 1986 Feb 15;234(1):213-6. doi: 10.1042/bj2340213.
The effect of methylating the central cytosine in the sequence GCGC on the sensitivity to digestion by deoxyribonuclease I was investigated. Examination of five such sites shows that the extra methyl group renders the bond on its 5' side more susceptible to cleavage, and this is interpreted by suggesting that it causes small changes in the local DNA phosphate orientation.
研究了在序列GCGC中对中央胞嘧啶进行甲基化修饰对脱氧核糖核酸酶I消化敏感性的影响。对五个这样的位点进行检测发现,额外的甲基使该位点5'端的磷酸二酯键更易被切割,对此的解释是,甲基化导致了局部DNA磷酸基团取向发生微小变化。