Nucleotides regulate the conformational state of the small terminase subunit from bacteriophage lambda: Implications for the assembly of a viral genome-packaging motor

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 9645-9656

  Gaussier, Hélène ^a   Ortega, Marcos E ^a   Maluf, Nasib K ^a   Catalano, Carlos E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; CATALYSIS; CELLS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; GENES;

CONFRONTATIONAL STATE; HOLOENZYME COMPLEX; LAMBDA TERMINASE; NUCLEOTIDES;

ENZYMES;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GPA1 GPNU12 COMPLEX PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN GPA; PROTEIN GPNU1; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SMALL TERMINASE SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROLYSIS; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME;

ACRYLAMIDE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AZIDES; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DIMERIZATION; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PHOTOAFFINITY LABELS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 22244448079     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi050333e     Document Type: Article

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