FtsK is a DNA motor protein that activates chromosome dimer resolution by switching the catalytic state of the XerC and XerD recombinases

Cell

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 195-205

  Aussel, Laurent ^a   Barre, François Xavier ^a   Aroyo, Mira ^a   Stasiak, Andrzej ^b   Stasiak, Alicja Z ^b   Sherratt, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; DIMER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MONOMER; POLYMER; PROTEIN FTSK; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037169328     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00624-4     Document Type: Article

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