Helicase mechanisms and the coupling of helicases within macromolecular machines Part II: Integration of helicases into cellular processes

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-69

  Delagoutte, Emmanuelle ^a   Von Hippel, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELICASE; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; RNA;

DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; DNA HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA; RNA HELICASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037294467     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583502003864     Document Type: Review

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