Solution structure of domains IVa and V of the τ subunit Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III and interaction with the α subunit

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2825-2832

  Su, Xun Cheng ^a   Jergic, Slobodan ^a   Keniry, Max A ^a   Dixon, Nicholas E ^a,b   Otting, Gottfried ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; DNA POLYMERASE III, ALPHA SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TAU;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; IVA;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA POLYMERASE III; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLUTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 34248551243     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm080     Document Type: Article

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