The unstructed C-terminus of the τ subunit of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme is the site of interaction with the α subunit

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2813-2824

  Jergic, Slobodan ^a   Ozawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Williams, Neal K ^a   Su, Xun Cheng ^a   Scott, Daniel D ^a   Hamdan, Samir M ^a   Crowther, Jeffrey A ^a   Otting, Gottfried ^a   Dixon, Nicholas E ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TAU;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA POLYMERASE III; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 34248596298     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm079     Document Type: Article

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