Assemblies of replication initiator protein an symmetric and asymmetric DNA sequences depend on multiple protein oligomerization surfaces

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 619-631

  Urh, Marjeta ^a   Wu, Jianwei ^a   Wu, Jiazhen ^a   Forest, Katrina ^a   Inman, Ross B ^a   Filutowicz, Marcin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA binding; Plasmid R6K; Protein oligomerization; Replication initiator; protein

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032582789     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2120     Document Type: Article

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