Roles of the helicase and primase domain of the gene 4 protein of bacteriophage T7 in accessing the primase recognition site

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1542-1552

  Kusakabe, Takahiro ^a   Baradaran, Khandan ^b   Lee, Joonsoo ^a   Richardson, Charles C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GENOME THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

, methylene dTTP; DNA binding; DNA primase; Helicase

Indexed keywords

DNA PRIMASE; HELICASE; THYMIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA PRIMASE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; THYMINE NUCLEOTIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032473420     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.5.1542     Document Type: Article

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