Sit down, relax and unwind: Structural insights into RecQ helicase mechanisms

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 4098-4105

  Killoran, Michael P ^a   Keck, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; EXONUCLEASE; NUCLEIC ACID; RECQ HELICASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HELICASE; RECQL PROTEIN, HUMAN;

BACTERIAL CELL; BLOOM SYNDROME; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ROTHMUND THOMSON SYNDROME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; WERNER SYNDROME; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BLOOM SYNDROME; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECQ HELICASES; ROTHMUND-THOMSON SYNDROME; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 33749132155     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl538     Document Type: Review

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