Emerging mechanisms of eukaryotic DNA replication initiation

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 742-748

  Leatherwood, Janet ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; HELICASE;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031743684     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(98)80117-8     Document Type: Article

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