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. 1989 Mar;9(3):1351–1356. doi: 10.1128/mcb.9.3.1351

A plant DNA-binding protein that recognizes 5-methylcytosine residues.

D L Zhang 1, K C Ehrlich 1, P C Supakar 1, M Ehrlich 1
PMCID: PMC362731  PMID: 2725503

Abstract

A novel, 5-methylcytosine-specific, DNA-binding protein, DBP-m, has been identified in nuclear extracts of peas. DBP-m specifically recognizes 5-methylcytosine residues in DNA without appreciable DNA sequence specificity, unlike a mammalian DNA-binding protein (MDBP), which recognizes 5-methylcytosine residues but only in a related family of 14-base-pair sequences.

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