Hexameric ring structure of the full-length archael MCM protein complex

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1079-1083

  Pape, Tillmann ^a   Meka, Hedije ^a   Chen, Shaoxia ^a   Vicentini, Giorgia ^a,b   van Heel, Marin ^a   Onesti, Silvia ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; METHANOBACTERIUM THERMOAUTOTROPHICUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOTHERMOBACTER THERMAUTOTROPHICUS; PROKARYOTA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0348133607     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400010     Document Type: Article

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