It happens.
Ef-Tu is methylated on a single lysine
Also LafV is a putative methylase in E. Coli but its effects were not
studied in detail.
Salmonella methylates flagellin which is how lysine methylation was
discovered - and E.coli is a kissing cousin so...
Artem
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 12:31 Jennifer Fleming wrote:
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> Dear CCP4 community,
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> I am hoping that someone here might know the answer to this as I cannot
> find anything concrete in my literature search.
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> I have recently received a mass spec result indicating that a recombinant
> protein expressed in *E. coli* is heavily lysine methylated. I would like
> to know is this an artefact and is it even possible for *E. coli* to
> methylate lysines?
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> Thank you for any help,
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> Jen
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