Macromolecular complexes that unwind nucleic acids

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1168-1177

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA POLYMERASE; ENZYME; HELICASE; NUCLEIC ACID;

CHEMICAL BINDING; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MACHINE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0345492316     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10369     Document Type: Review

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