An atypical topoisomerase II from archaea with implications for meiotic recombination

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6623, 1997, Pages 414-417

  Bergerat, Agnès ^a   De Massy, Bernard ^b   Gadelle, Danielle ^a   Varoutas, Paul Christophe ^b   Nicolas, Alain ^b   Forterre, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING);

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC AND METHANE PRODUCING BACTERIA; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II, ARCHAEAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 0030987132     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386414a0     Document Type: Article

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