Helicases: A unifying structural theme?

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-18

  Bird, Louise E ^a   Subramanya, Hosahalli S ^a   Wigley, Dale B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HELICASE; RECA PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; REVIEW;

EID: 0032007298     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(98)80004-3     Document Type: Article

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