Structure of the tertiary complex of the RepA hexameric helicase of plasmid RSF1010 with the ssDNA and nucleotide cofactors in solution

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 46, 2007, Pages 13279-13296

  Marcinowicz, Agnieszka ^a   Jezewska, Maria J ^a   Bujalowski, Paul J ^a   Bujalowski, Wlodzimierz ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA-BINDING SITE; FLUORESCENCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT MARKER; TERTIARY COMPLEX;

CENTRIFUGATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA; ENERGY TRANSFER; MONOMERS; NUCLEOTIDES; OLIGOMERS;

PROTEINS;

CYSTEINE; HELICASE; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN REPA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COENZYMES; CYSTEINE; DNA HELICASES; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 36248933691     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi700729k     Document Type: Article

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