| Synonyms |
Ada protein, Ada-C, AGAT, AGT, AGTendoV, alkylated DNA-protein alkyltransferase, alkylguanine transferase, ATASE, C-hAGT, carboxyl terminal domain of the inducible Escherichia coli ada alkyltransferase, hAGT, methylated-DNA-[protein]-cysteine S-methyltransferase, methylguanine DNA methyltransferase, MGMT, Mgt1, MJ1529, N-hAGT, O6-alkylguanine DNA alkyltransferase, O6-alkylguanine DNA-alkyltransferase, O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyl-transferase, O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase, O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase, O6-methylguanine methyltransferase, O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase, O6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase, O6-MGMT, O6meG-DNA alkyltransferase, OGT, Pk-MGMT, SSO2487, Tk-MGMT, TTHA1564 |
| Comments |
This protein is involved in the repair of methylated DNA. Unlike EC 3.2.2.20, DNA-3-methyladenine glycosidase I and EC 3.2.2.21, DNA-3-methyladenine glycosidase II, which remove the methylated base leaving an apurinic/apyrimidinic site, this enzyme transfers the methyl group from the methylated DNA to an internal cysteine residue, leaving an intact nucleotide. Since the methyl transfer is irreversible, the enzyme can only catalyse a single turnover. |
![Example Structure of methylated-DNA-[protein]-cysteine S-methyltransferase EC#: 2.1.1.63](/wp-content/uploads/enzyme-structure/2.1.1.63.jpg)