The MCM complex: (Just) a replicative helicase?

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 136-140

  Costa, Alessandro ^a   Onesti, Silvia ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATPase associated with various cellular activities (AAA+); DNA replication; Helicase; Initiator; Minichromosome maintenance 2 7 (MCM2 MCM7)

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HELICASE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 2; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 3; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 4; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 5; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 6; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 7;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; DNA DENATURATION; DNA REPLICATION; EUKARYOTE; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PYROBACULUM; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL, TUMOR; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 39449123549     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0360136     Document Type: Article

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