Processing of recombination intermediates by the RuvABC proteins

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue , 1997, Pages 213-244

  West, Stephen C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branch migration; DNA repair; Helicase; Holliday junction; Resolvase

Indexed keywords

DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031453378     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.31.1.213     Document Type: Review

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