Temperature-sensitive mutants of the EcoRI endonuclease

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 274, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 722-737

  Muir, R Scott ^a   Flores, Humberto ^b   Zinder, Norton D ^c   Model, Peter ^c   Soberon, Xavier ^b   Heitman, Joseph ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional mutants; DNA damage; DNA repair; Endonucleases; Restriction modification

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; ENDONUCLEASE; GLOBULAR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 17744402915     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1419     Document Type: Article

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