Analogs of S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine in Studies of Methyltransferases

AY Rudenko, SS Mariasina, PV Sergiev, VI Polshakov - Molecular biology, 2022 - Springer
Methyltransferases (MTases) play an important role in the functioning of living systems,
catalyzing the methylation reactions of DNA, RNA, proteins, and small molecules, including …

Fine and predictable tuning of TALEN gene editing targeting for improved T cell adoptive immunotherapy

AS Gautron, A Juillerat, V Guyot, JM Filhol… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2017 - cell.com
Using a TALEN-mediated gene-editing approach, we have previously described a process
for the large-scale manufacturing of" off-the-shelf" CAR T cells from third-party donor T cells …

Dam assisted fluorescent tagging of chromatin accessibility (dafca) for optical genome mapping in nanochannel arrays

G Nifker, A Grunwald, S Margalit, Z Tulpova… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Proteins and enzymes in the cell nucleus require physical access to their DNA target sites in
order to perform genomic tasks such as gene activation and transcription. Hence, chromatin …

Selective recognition of N4-methylcytosine in DNA by engineered transcription-activator-like effectors

P Rathi, S Maurer, D Summerer - … Transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The epigenetic DNA nucleobases 5-methylcytosine (5mC) and N 4-methylcytosine (4mC)
coexist in bacterial genomes and have important functions in host defence and transcription …

Two-step, one-pot synthesis of visible-light-responsive 6-azopurines

D Kolarski, W Szymanski, BL Feringa - Organic letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
The first general two-step, one-pot synthetic route to 6-azopurines is presented. Microwave-
assisted nucleophilic aromatic substitution of protected 6-chloropurines with hydrazines or …

A benzylic linker promotes methyltransferase catalyzed norbornene transfer for rapid bioorthogonal tetrazine ligation

F Muttach, N Muthmann, D Reichert, L Anhäuser… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Site-specific alkylation of complex biomolecules is critical for late-stage product
diversification as well as post-synthetic labeling and manipulation of proteins and nucleic …

Fluorescent SAM analogues for methyltransferase based DNA labeling

V Goyvaerts, S Van Snick, L D'Huys, R Vitale… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, the preparation of new S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) analogues for
sequence specific DNA labeling is evaluated. These non-natural analogues, comprising …

Enzymatic Generation of Double‐Modified AdoMet Analogues and Their Application in Cascade Reactions with Different Methyltransferases

M Erguven, NV Cornelissen, A Peters, E Karaca… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Methyltransferases (MTases) have become an important tool for site‐specific alkylation and
biomolecular labelling. In biocatalytic cascades with methionine adenosyltransferases …

Complete, programmable decoding of oxidized 5-Methylcytosine nucleobases in DNA by Chemoselective blockage of universal transcription-activator-like effector …

M Gieß, A Witte, J Jasper, O Koch… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
5-Methylcytosine (5mC) and its oxidized derivatives are regulatory elements of mammalian
genomes involved in development and disease. These nucleobases do not selectively …

DNA Methyltransferases and AdoMet Analogs as Tools for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

NV Cornelissen, A Hoffmann… - Chemie Ingenieur …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For a long time, DNA methyltransferases were of particular interest for basic molecular
biology research since they regulate important processes in both prokaryotes and …