Crystal structure of the helicase domain from the replicative helicase-primase of bacteriophage T7

Cell

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 167-177

  Sawaya, Michael R ^a   Guo, Shenyuan ^a   Tabor, Stanley ^a   Richardson, Charles C ^a   Ellenberger, Tom ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA PRIMASE; HELICASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BASE PAIRING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TEMPLATE; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING; TRANSACTIVATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032716810     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81648-7     Document Type: Article

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