Rad50/SMC proteins and ABC transporters: Unifying concepts from high-resolution structures

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 249-255

  Hopfner, Karl Peter ^a   Tainer, John A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN SMC; RAD50 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; BASE MISPAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; EXCISION REPAIR; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 0037398027     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(03)00037-X     Document Type: Review

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