The proofreading exonuclease subunit ε of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III is tethered to the polymerase subunit α via a flexible linker

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5074-5082

  Ozawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Jergic, Slobodan ^a,b   Park, Ah Young ^a   Dixon, Nicholas E ^a,b   Otting, Gottfried ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE EPSILON; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE THETA; EXONUCLEASE; LANTHANIDE; NITROGEN 15;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 50849143436     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn489     Document Type: Article

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