Is the MCM2-7 complex the eukaryotic DNA replication fork helicase?

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 64-70

  Labib, Karim ^a   Diffley, John F X ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ENZYME; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; HELICASE; MINIMICHROSOME MAINTENANCE 2; MINIMICHROSOME MAINTENANCE 3; MINIMICHROSOME MAINTENANCE 4; MINIMICHROSOME MAINTENANCE 5; MINIMICHROSOME MAINTENANCE 6; MINIMICHROSOME MAINTENANCE 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECQ HELICASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; YEASTS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0035253410     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(00)00158-1     Document Type: Review

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