RecBCD enzyme is a DNA helicase with fast and slow motors of opposite polarity

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6942, 2003, Pages 889-893

  Taylor, Andrew F ^a   Smith, Gerald R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS;

MUTATIONAL INACTIVATION;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; HELICASE; KINESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA; ENZYME;

ARTICLE; DNA DENATURATION; DNA REPAIR; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DNA; DNA HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037698985     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01674     Document Type: Article

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