Intersubunit electrostatic complementarity in the RecA nucleoprotein filament regulates nucleotide substrate specificity and conformational activation

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 4514-4529

  Lee, Andrew M ^a   Singleton, Scott F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; CONFORMATIONS; DNA; SUBSTRATES; TRANSDUCERS;

CONFORMATIONAL ACTIVATION; ELECTROSTATIC COMPLEMENTARITY; FILAMENT ASSEMBLY; STRAND EXCHANGE REACTION PRODUCTS;

PROTEINS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; MOLECULAR MOTOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECA PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL SURVIVAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEADY STATE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHRANILIC ACIDS; ASPARTIC ACID; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROSTATICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33645683079     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi052296x     Document Type: Article

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