Organization of the archaeal MCM complex on DNA and implications for the helicase mechanism

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 756-762

  McGeoch, Adam T ^a   Trakselis, Michael A ^a   Laskey, Ronald A ^a   Bell, Stephen D ^a  

^a HUTCHISON MRC RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN; MONOMER; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; VIRUS T ANTIGEN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MCM1 PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLUTIONS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 26944435616     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb974     Document Type: Article

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