Dimerization of the Rad50 protein is independent of the conserved hook domain

Mutagenesis

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 269-274

  Cahill, Dana ^a   Carney, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; MRE11 PROTEIN; RAD50 PROTEIN; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DIMERIZATION; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34547688971     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gem011     Document Type: Article

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