RecBCD enzyme is a bipolar DNA helicase

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6942, 2003, Pages 893-897

  Dillingham, Mark S ^a,b   Spies, Maria ^a   Kowalczykowski, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DNA; MUTAGENESIS;

BIPOLAR TRANSLOCATION MODELS;

ENZYMES;

EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; HELICASE; RECA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA; ENZYME;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HOLOENZYMES; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037590607     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01673     Document Type: Article

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