The RadA protein from a hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum islandicum is a DNA-dependent ATPase that exhibits two disparate catalytic modes, with a transition temperature at 75 °C

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1125-1137

  Spies, Maria ^a   Kil, Yuri ^a   Masui, Ryoji ^c   Kato, Ryuichi ^c   Kujo, Chizu ^c   Ohshima, Toshihisa ^c   Kuramitsu, Seiki ^b   Lanzov, Vladislav ^a  

^a PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Arrhenius plot; DNA dependent ATPase; Homologous genetic recombination; Pyrobaculum islandicum; RadA

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CATALYSIS; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOPROTEACEAE;

ARCHAEA; ARRHENIUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PYROBACULUM ISLANDICUM;

EID: 0033952524     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01108.x     Document Type: Article

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