Structural and functional analyses of disease-causing missense mutations in Bloom syndrome protein

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 6297-6310

  Guo, Rong Bing ^a   Rigolet, Pascal ^a   Ren, Hua ^a,b   Zhang, Bo ^a   Zhang, Xing Dong ^c   Dou, Shuo Xing ^c   Wang, Peng Ye ^c   Amor Gueret, Mounira ^a   Xi, Xu Guang ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; RECQ HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; BINDING AFFINITY; BLOOM SYNDROME; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA DENATURATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOOM SYNDROME; DNA; DNA HELICASES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE;

EID: 35648999125     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm536     Document Type: Article

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