The arginine finger of the Bloom syndrome protein: Its structural organization and its role in energy coupling

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 6029-6041

  Ren, Hua ^a,c,e   Dou, Shuo Xing ^b,d   Rigolet, Pascal ^e   Yang, Ye ^d   Wang, Peng Ye ^d   Amor Gueret, Mounira ^c   Xi, Xu Guang ^c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^e Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARGININE; BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; DNA; PHOSPHATE; RECQ HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGININE; DNA; DNA HELICASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; VANADATES;

EID: 35548990583     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm544     Document Type: Article

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