Evolution of a phage RuvC endonuclease for resolution of both Holliday and branched DNA junctions

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1332-1345

  Curtis, Fiona A ^a   Reed, Patricia ^a   Sharples, Gary J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; RUVAB ENDONUCLEASE; RUVABC ENDONUCLEASE; RUVC ENDONUCLEASE; THYMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 14844286148     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04476.x     Document Type: Article

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