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An Engineered Split-TET2 Enzyme for Chemical-inducible DNA Hydroxymethylation and Epigenetic Remodeling
Published on: December 18, 2017
Harnessing methylation and AdoMet-utilising enzymes for selective modification in cascade reactions
Freideriki Michailidou1, Andrea Rentmeister1
1Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Corrensstr. 36, 481\49 Münster, Germany. fmichaili@ethz.ch a.rentmeister@uni-muenster.de.
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Enzyme-mediated methylation is a very important reaction in nature, yielding a wide range of modified natural products, diversifying small molecules and fine-tuning the activity of biomacromolecules. The field has attracted much attention over the recent years and interesting applications of the dedicated enzymes in biocatalysis and biomolecular labelling have emerged. In this review article, we summarise the concepts and recent advances in developing (chemo)-enzymatic cascades for selective methylation, alkylation and photocaging as tools to study biological methylation and as biotransformations to generate site-specifically alkylated products.
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