Differential arrangements of conserved building blocks among homologs of the Rad50/Mre11 DNA repair protein complex

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 339, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 937-949

  De Jager, Martijn ^a   Trujillo, Kelly M ^b   Sung, Patrick ^c   Hopfner, Karl Peter ^d   Carney, James P ^e   Tainer, John A ^f   Connelly, John C ^g   Leach, David R F ^g   Kanaar, Roland ^a   Wyman, Claire ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA metabolism; protein architecture; SbcCD; scanning force microscopy (SFM); SFM, scanning force microscopy; SMC, structural maintenance of chromosomes; structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC)

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; PROTEIN SBCCD; RAD50 PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE OF CHROMOSOME PROTEIN 1; STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE OF CHROMOSOME PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 2542427462     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.04.014     Document Type: Article

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