Meanings
present singular third person mismethylates · participle present mismethylating · participle past mismethylated · past mismethylated
- To methylate incorrectly.
Biosynthesis of Mismethylated Analogs of Cobalamin
2015, Robert A. Meyers, Synthetic Biology, page 4123 more 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
1994, A. Ian Scott, “The discovery of nature's pathway to vitamin B12. A 25 year Odyssey”, in Tetrahedron, volume 50, number 47CysG 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.
2012, Karl Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard, The Porphyrin Handbook, page 217M. jannaschii Nep mismethylates T-arm resembling RNAs.
2012, Jan Philip Wurm, Marco Griese, Ute Bahr, Martin Held, Alexander Heckel, Michael Karas, Jörg Soppa, Jens Wöhnert, “Identification of the enzyme responsible for N1-methylation of pseudouridine 54 in archaeal tRNAs”, in RNA
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