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... > Enzymes and Coenzymes > Enzymes > Transferases > One-Carbon Group Transferases > Methyltransferases > Protein Methyltransferases > O(6)-Methylguanine-DNA Methyltransferase

Preferred term

O(6)-Methylguanine-DNA Methyltransferase  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Guanine-O(6)-Alkyltransferase
  • Methylated DNA Protein Cysteine S Methyltransferase
  • Methylated-DNA-Protein-Cysteine S-Methyltransferase
  • O(6)-AGT
  • O(6)-Alkylguanine-DNA Alkyltransferase
  • O(6)-MeG-DNA Methyltransferase
  • O(6)-Methylguanine DNA Transmethylase
  • O(6)-Methylguanine Methyltransferase
  • S-Methyltransferase, Methylated-DNA-Protein-Cysteine

Scope note

  • An enzyme that transfers methyl groups from O(6)-methylguanine, and other methylated moieties of DNA, to a cysteine residue in itself, thus repairing alkylated DNA in a single-step reaction. EC 2.1.1.63.

History note

  • 98; use O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (NM) 1980-97

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019853

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