Guanosine triphosphate acts as a cofactor to promote assembly of initial P-element transposase-DNA synaptic complexes

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1422-1425

  Tang, Mei ^a   Cecconi, Ciro ^a,b   Kim, Helen ^a   Bustamante, Carlos ^a,b   Rio, Donald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA rearrangements; DNA binding proteins; GTP binding proteins; Protein DNA complexes; Transposition

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; P ELEMENT TRANSPOSASE; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA TRANSPOSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 22344432173     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1317605     Document Type: Article

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