DNA nicking by Escherichia coli topoisomerase IV with a substitution mutation from tyrosine to histidine at the active site

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1069-1075

  Yokochi, Tomoki ^a   Kato, Jun Ichi ^a   Ikeda, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); HISTIDINE; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTIDINE; MUTATION; TYROSINE;

EID: 0030342484     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1996.d01-226.x     Document Type: Article

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