Clostridioides difficile specific DNA adenine methyltransferase CamA squeezes and flips adenine out of DNA helix

Clostridioides difficile adenine methyltransferase A (CamA) is required for the sporulation and colonization of the pathogen that causes gastrointestinal infections. Here, the authors characterise CamA kinetically and present its crystal structure bound to the DNA recognition sequence, which reveals...

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Main Authors: Jujun Zhou, John R. Horton, Robert M. Blumenthal, Xing Zhang, Xiaodong Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23693-w