Glucosylation of Deoxyribonucleic Acid by Enzymes
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The deoxyribonucleic acid of bacteriophages T2, T4, and T6 contains glucose linked to the hydroxymethyl groups of hydroxymethylcytosine. The work of Sinsheimer, Volkin, Jesaitis, and of Lichtenstein and Cohen (l-4) established the presence of glucosyl-hydroxymethylcytosine residues in the deoxyribonucleic acid and indicated that there is a characteristic glucose to hydroxymethylcytosine ratio for each phage. Lehman and Pratt (5) have now published a detailed analysis showing four types of hydroxymethylcytosine residues which have the following distribution in these phages :
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تاریخ انتشار 2003