Prokaryotic homologs of the eukaryotic DNA-end-binding protein Ku, novel domains in the Ku protein and prediction of a prokaryotic double-strand break repair system

Genome Research

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1365-1374

  Aravind, L ^a   Koonin, E V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA PRIMASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; GENE PRODUCT; KU ANTIGEN; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; NUCLEASE; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR RHO; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DATA BASE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034889360     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.181001     Document Type: Article

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