Strategies for helicase recruitment and loading in bacteria

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-41

  Konieczny, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA A; DNA B; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA HELICASE; DNA POLYMERASE; DNAB HELICASE; DNAC HELICASE; REPLICATION INITIATOR PROTEIN DNAA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REPLICON; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; DNA DENATURATION; DNA STRAND; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T4; GC RICH SEQUENCE; HOST RANGE; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNAB HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOTION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037222240     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor703     Document Type: Review

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