The human Rad51 protein: Polarity of strand transfer and stimulation by hRP-A

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 5198-5206

  Baumann, Peter ^a   West, Stephen C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Genetic recombination; Homologous pairing; RecA; Strand exchange

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOICHIOMETRY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPLICATION PROTEIN A;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030766963     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.17.5198     Document Type: Article

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