Identification of stable S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) analogues derivatised with bioorthogonal tags: effect of ligands on the affinity of the E. coli methionine repressor, MetJ, for its operator DNA.

Catherine Joce, Jamie Caryl, Peter G Stockley, Stuart Warriner, Adam Nelson

Index: Org. Biomol. Chem. 7(4) , 635-8, (2009)

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Abstract

The efficient synthesis of a range of stable SAM mimetics, and their ability to promote the binding of the E. coli methionine repressor (MetJ) to its operator DNA, is described.