Specific mutations within the AT-rich region of a plasmid replication origin affect either origin opening or helicase loading

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 11134-11139

  Rajewska, Magdalena ^a   Kowalczyk, Lukasz ^a   Konopa, Grazyna ^a   Konieczny, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

13 mer sequences; DNA replication; DnaB helicase; Plasmid RK2

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DNA FRAGMENT; HELICASE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNAB HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 49649125328     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805662105     Document Type: Article

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