The cohesin ring concatenates sister DNA molecules

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7202, 2008, Pages 297-301

  Haering, Christian H ^a,b   Farcas, Ana Maria ^a   Arumugam, Prakash ^a,c   Metson, Jean ^a   Nasmyth, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; CONCATENATED DNA; POLYPEPTIDE;

CHROMOSOME; DNA; TESTING METHOD;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SISTER CHROMATID; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, CONCATENATED; DNA, FUNGAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE;

EID: 47549115780     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07098     Document Type: Article

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