Association of Holliday-structure resolving endonuclease VII with gp20 from the packaging machine of phage T4

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1131-1144

  Golz, Stefan ^a   Kemper, Börries ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromosome structure; DNA condensation; DNA protein interaction; Protein purification; Protein protein interaction

Indexed keywords

CRUCIFORM DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MAGNESIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA PACKAGING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

T4 BACTERIOPHAGE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0033593367     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2399     Document Type: Article

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