The human Rad52 protein exists as a heptameric ring

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 337-340

  Stasiak, Alicja Z ^a   Larquet, Eric ^a   Stasiak, Andrzej ^a   Müller, Shirley ^b   Engel, Andreas ^b   Van Dyck, Eric ^c   West, Stephen C ^b   Egelman, Edward H ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HELICASE; HUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RAD 52; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PAPILLOMAVIRUS; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0034704903     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00385-7     Document Type: Article

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