Structural and functional characterizations reveal the importance of a zinc binding domain in Bloom's syndrome helicase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3109-3124

  Guo, Rong Bin ^a   Rigolet, Pascal ^a   Zargarian, Loussiné ^a   Fermandjian, Serge ^a   Xi, Xu Guang ^a  

^a Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CYSTEINE; RECQ HELICASE; ZINC ION; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BLOOM SYNDROME PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELICASE; ZINC;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME STABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CYSTEINE; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME STABILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZINC;

EID: 19844372703     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki619     Document Type: Article

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