Purification and characterization of Thermus thermophilus UvrD

Extremophiles

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-41

  Collins, Ruairi ^a   McCarthy, Tommie V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DNA helicase; DNA repair; Thermus thermophilus; UvrD

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BUFFER; ENZYME INHIBITOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HELICASE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UVRD PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BASE SEQUENCE; BUFFERS; DNA HELICASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0012820577     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-002-0293-4     Document Type: Article

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