any of a class of enzymes that catalyse methylation
Examples of 'methylase' in a sentence
methylase
Sgm methylase was purified to homogeneity > 95 %.
TATJANA ILIC TOMIC, SANDRA MARKOVIC, BRANKA VASILJEVIC 2005, 'Expression and purification of the Sgm protein from E. coli', Journal of the Serbian Chemical Societyhttp://www.shd.org.yu/HtDocs/SHD/vol70/No6/JSCS_V70_No6-04.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
By contrast, histone deacetylase, histone methylase, and histone demethylase activities are notrequired to maintain repression.
Karin Meier, Eve-Lyne Mathieu, Florian Finkernagel, L Maximilian Reuter, Maren Scharfe,Gunther Doehlemann, Michael Jarek, Alexander Brehm 2012, 'LINT, a novel dL(3)mbt-containing complex, represses malignant brain tumour signaturegenes.', PLoS Geneticshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3342951?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We used quantitative proteomic analysis to identify new targets of the methylase involved in senescence escape.
Mélanie Le Duff, Julien Gouju, Barbara Jonchère, Jordan Guillon, Bertrand Toutain,Alice Boissard, Cécile Henry, Catherine Guette, Eric Lelièvre, Olivier Coqueret 2018, 'Regulation of senescence escape by the cdk4–EZH2–AP2M1 pathway in response to chemotherapy',Cell Death and Diseasehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41419-017-0209-y. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)