Chi-activated RecBCD enzyme possesses 5′→3′ nucleolytic activity, but RecBC enzyme does not: Evidence suggesting that the alteration induced by Chi is not simply ejection of the RecD subunit

Genes to Cells

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 117-128

  Anderson, Daniel G ^a   Churchill, Jason J ^a   Kowalczykowski, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V, E COLI; HELICASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0031064615     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1997.1130311.x     Document Type: Article

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