Replication termination in Escherichia coli: Structure and antihelicase activity of the Tus-Ter complex

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 501-526

  Neylon, Cameron ^a,b   Kralicek, Andrew V ^b,c   Hill, Thomas M ^d   Dixon, Nicholas E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 24944550999     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.69.3.501-526.2005     Document Type: Review

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