Mutational analysis on structure-function relationship of a Holliday junction specific endonuclease RuvC

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 575-586

  Ichiyanagi, Kenji ^a,b   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Hishida, Takashi ^a   Shinagawa, Hideo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BIOMOL ENG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHORUS 32;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0031769492     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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