Crystal structure of human mitochondrial single-stranded DNA binding protein at 2.4 Å resolution

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-157

  Yang, Cheng ^a   Curth, Ute ^b   Urbanke, Claus ^b   Kang, ChulHee ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031023811     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0297-153     Document Type: Article

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