Crystal structure of an octameric RuvA-Holliday junction complex

Molecular Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 361-372

  Roe, S Mark ^a   Barlow, Tom ^b   Brown, Tom ^b   Oram, Mark ^a   Keeley, Anthony ^a   Tsaneva, Irina R ^a   Pearl, Laurence H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HELICASE; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION DNA HELICASE, E COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA HELICASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032161128     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80280-4     Document Type: Article

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