A bipolar DNA helicase gene, herA, clusters with rad50, mre11 and nurA genes in thermophilic archaea

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1439-1447

  Constantinesco, F ^b   Forterre, P ^b   Koonin, E V ^a   Aravind, L ^a   Elie, C ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXONUCLEASE; HELICASE; HERA PROTEIN; MRE11 PROTEIN; RAD50 PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; MRE11 PROTEIN, ARCHAEAL; RAD50 PROTEIN, ARCHAEAL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARCHAEA; SULFOLOBUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENES, ARCHAEAL; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2442670846     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh283     Document Type: Article

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