Characterisation of XlCdc1, a Xenopus homologue of the small (PolD2) subunit of DNA polymerase δ; identification of ten conserved regions I-X based on protein sequence comparisons across ten eukaryotic species

Gene

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-22

  Reynolds, Nicola ^a   MacNeill, Stuart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA replication; Evolutionary conservation; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA POLYMERASE III; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; XENOPUS; YEASTS;

AMPHIBIA; ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; REPTILIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033119848     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00058-X     Document Type: Article

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