The replication clamp-loading machine at work in the three domains of life

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 751-761

  Indiani, Chiara ^a   O'Donnell, Mike ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA POLYMERASE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX;

BACTERIOPHAGE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA METABOLISM; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; REPLICATION PROTEIN C;

EID: 33749033347     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2022     Document Type: Review

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