The fission yeast gene pmt1+ encodes a DNA methyltransferase homologue.

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Published in Nucleic Acids Res on January 25, 1995

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C R Wilkinson1, R Bartlett, P Nurse, A P Bird

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1: Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK.

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