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Nucleic Acids Research, 1985, Vol. 13, No. 16 5727-5748
© 1985

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Investigation of restriction-modification enzymes from M. varians RFL19 with a new type of specificity toward modification of substrate

Vikoras Butkus, Saulius Klimasauskas, Danger{small tilde}ta Kersulyté, Donatas Vaitkevicius, Algimantas Lebionka and Arvydas Janulaitis*

ESP Fermentas Fermentu 8, Vilnius 232028, Lithuanian SSR, USSR

*To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received June 25, 1985. Accepted July 25, 1985.

The characterization of MvaI restriction-modification enzymes, isolated from Micrococous varians RFL19, is reported. Both enzymes recognize the 5'CC'(A/T)GG nucleotide sequence.The endonuclease cleaves the sequence at the position indicated by the arrow, whereas the methylase modifies the internal cytosine, yielding N4-methylcytosine. This type ofmodification protects the substrate from E.Mval cleavage. 5–Methylcytosine in the same position of the recognition sequence does not protect the substrate from H.MvaI cleavage. R.Mval proved to be the first example of a restriction endonuolease differentiating the position of the methyl group in the heterocyclic ring of cytosine, located in the same site of the recognition sequence. M.MvaI modifies DHA dcm+ in vitro yielding N4, 5–di-methylcytosine, N4–methylcytosine cannot be differentiated from cytosine using the Maxam–Gilbert DNA sequencing procedure.


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