The bacterial replicative helicase DnaB evolved from a RecA duplication

Genome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-16

  Leipe, Detlef D ^a   Aravind, L ^a,b   Grishin, Nick V ^a,c   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; DNA B; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA PRIMASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE; RECA PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLONING VECTOR; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DUPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNAB HELICASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; REC A RECOMBINASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033975419     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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