Genetic Sensor for Strong Methylating Compounds

Methylating chemicals are common in industry and agriculture and are often toxic, partly due to their propensity to methylate DNA. The Escherichia coli Ada protein detects methylating compounds by sensing aberrant methyl adducts on the phosphoester backbone of DNA. We characterize this system as a g...

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Main Authors: Moser, Felix, Horwitz, Andrew, Chen, Jacinto, Lim, Wendell A., Voigt, Christopher A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99525
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0844-4776
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7762-3084