Meaning of mismethylate | Babel Free

Definitions

To methylate incorrectly.

Examples

“We did find that one of tbe Salmonella genes, cbiF, was capable of 'mismethylating' precorrin-3 at the 1 l-position, ie out of the natural order, to yield a tetramethyl pyrrocorphin”

“CysG is a homodimer with a subunit Mᵣ of 50,000, which, in addition to catalyzing methylation at C-2 and C-7, can also mismethylate precorrin 2 at C-12 to afford a trimethylpyrrocorphin derailment product.”

“M. jannaschii Nep mismethylates T-arm resembling RNAs.”

“Biosynthesis of Mismethylated Analogs of Cobalamin”

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