Bacillus subtilis RecU Holliday-junction resolvase modulates RecA activities

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3942-3952

  Carrasco, Begoña ^a   Ayora, Silvia ^a,b   Lurz, Rudi ^c   Alonso, Juan C ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL DNA; CROSSOVER JUNCTION ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RECA PROTEIN; RECU PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 2'-DEOXYADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEOXYADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; DEOXYADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STOICHIOMETRY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DEOXYADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RESOLVASES; REC A RECOMBINASES;

EID: 22444436777     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki713     Document Type: Article

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