A tale of toroids in DNA metabolism

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 22-30

  Hingorani, Manju M ^b   O'Donnell, Mike ^c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; HELICASE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034305887     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35036044     Document Type: Review

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