Structural basis for the nuclease activity of a bacteriophage large terminase

EMBO Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 592-598

  Smits, Callum ^a   Chechik, Maria ^a   Kovalevskiy, Oleg V ^a,b   Shevtsov, Mikhail B ^a   Foster, Andrew W ^a   Alonso, Juan C ^c   Antson, Alfred A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b SKRYABIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE H; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC MODEL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; METALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 67349101332     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2009.53     Document Type: Article

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