Motoring along with the bacterial RecA protein

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 127-138

  Cox, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE; MOLECULAR MOTOR; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HYDROLYSIS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REC A RECOMBINASES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 33847778234     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2099     Document Type: Review

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