Telomere resolution by Borrelia burgdorferi ResT through the collaborative efforts of tethered DNA binding domains

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 580-590

  Tourand, Yvonne ^a,b   Lee, Linda ^a,c   Chaconas, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPLICON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHYMOTRYPSIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINASES; TELOMERE;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 34247512061     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05691.x     Document Type: Article

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