Direct observation of individual RecA filaments assembling on single DNA molecules

Nature

Volumn 443, Issue 7113, 2006, Pages 875-878

  Galletto, Roberto ^a   Amitani, Ichiro ^a   Baskin, Ronald J ^a   Kowalczykowski, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROLYSIS; NUCLEATION; PROTEINS;

ATP HYDROLYSIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NUCLEOPROTEIN FILAMENT; NUCLEOTIDE COFACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEATION; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION; VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RECA GENE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33750296934     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05197     Document Type: Article

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