The enzymatic basis of processivity in λ exonuclease

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1585-1596

  Subramanian, Krithika ^a   Rutvisuttinunt, Wiriya ^a   Scott, Walter ^a   Myers, Richard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE LAMBDA; NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHATE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING COMPETITION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0037443869     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg266     Document Type: Review

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