Staphylococcus aureus helicase but not Escherichia coli helicase stimulates S. aureus primase activity and maintains initiation specificity

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 4673-4680

  Koepsell, Scott A ^a,b   Larson, Marilynn A ^a,b   Griep, Mark A ^b,c   Hinrichs, Steven H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; DNA PRIMASE; HELICASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADENOSINE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; DNA PRIMASE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33745477005     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00316-06     Document Type: Article

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