A junction branch point adjacent to a DNA backbone nick directs substrate cleavage by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mus81-Mms4

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2026-2036

  Ehmsen, Kirk Tevebaugh ^a   Heyer, Wolf Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FLAP ENDONUCLEASE; PROTEIN FEN1; PROTEIN MMS4; PROTEIN MUS81; PROTEIN RAD27; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; MMS4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MUS81 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; METABOLISM;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

BIOCATALYSIS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; KINETICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 64549135730     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp038     Document Type: Article

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