Brooks J E, Blumenthal R M, Gingeras T R
Nucleic Acids Res. 1983 Feb 11;11(3):837-51. doi: 10.1093/nar/11.3.837.
The E. coli dam (DNA adenine methylase) enzyme is known to methylate the sequence GATC. A general method for cloning sequence-specific DNA methylase genes was used to isolate the dam gene on a 1.14 kb fragment, inserted in the plasmid vector pBR322. Subsequent restriction mapping and subcloning experiments established a set of approximate boundaries of the gene. The nucleotide sequence of the dam gene was determined, and analysis of that sequence revealed a unique open reading frame which corresponded in length to that necessary to code for a protein the size of dam. Amino acid composition derived from this sequence corresponds closely to the amino acid composition of the purified dam protein. Enzymatic and DNA:DNA hybridization methods were used to investigate the possible presence of dam genes in a variety of prokaryotic organisms.
已知大肠杆菌的dam(DNA腺嘌呤甲基化酶)可使GATC序列发生甲基化。运用一种克隆序列特异性DNA甲基化酶基因的通用方法,在插入质粒载体pBR322的1.14 kb片段上分离出了dam基因。随后的限制性酶切图谱分析和亚克隆实验确定了该基因的一组大致边界。测定了dam基因的核苷酸序列,对该序列的分析揭示了一个独特的开放阅读框,其长度与编码dam大小蛋白质所需的长度一致。从该序列推导的氨基酸组成与纯化的dam蛋白的氨基酸组成密切对应。采用酶学和DNA:DNA杂交方法研究了多种原核生物中可能存在的dam基因。