The large subunit of Leishmania topoisomerase I functions as the 'molecular steer' in type IB topoisomerase

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-46

  BoseDasgupta, Somdeb ^a   Ganguly, Agneyo ^a   Das, Benu Brata ^b   Roy, Amit ^a   Khalkho, Neeta V M ^a   Majumder, Hemanta K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; ENZYME; HETERODIMER; TOPOISOMERASE TYPE 1B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE TARGETING; ISOMERIZATION; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMPTOTHECIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I, EUKARYOTIC; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENZYME STABILITY; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

KINETOPLASTIDA;

EID: 36849061658     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06002.x     Document Type: Article

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