RusA Holliday junction resolvase: DNA complex structure - Insights into selectivity and specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 5577-5584

  Macmaster, Rachel ^a   Sedelnikova, Svetlana ^a   Baker, Patrick J ^a   Bolt, Edward L ^b   Lloyd, Robert G ^b   Rafferty, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSOVER JUNCTION ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MAGNESIUM ION; RUSA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA, CRUCIFORM; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RESOLVASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33751050170     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl447     Document Type: Article

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