Cleavage of Bacteriophage λ cI Repressor Involves the RecA C-Terminal Domain

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 385, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 779-787

  Galkin, Vitold E ^a   Yu, Xiong ^a   Bielnicki, Jakub ^a   Ndjonka, Dieudonné ^b   Bell, Charles E ^b   Egelman, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; helical polymers; image processing; recombination

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; DNA; LEXA PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPRESSOR GENE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58149136066     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.10.081     Document Type: Article

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