The Structure of I-CeuI Homing Endonuclease: Evolving Asymmetric DNA Recognition from a Symmetric Protein Scaffold

Structure

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 869-880

  Spiegel, P Clint ^a,c   Chevalier, Brett ^a,c   Sussman, Django ^c   Turmel, Monique ^b   Lemieux, Claude ^b   Stoddard, Barry L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; HOMODIMER; I CEUL PROTEIN; LEUCYLALANYLGLYCYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYLASPARTYLALANYLASPARTYLGLYCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYST; DNA BINDING; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE FUSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TARGET VARIABLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CHLAMYDOMONAS EUGAMETOS;

EID: 33646363729     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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