Residues in the central β-hairpin of the DNA helicase of bacteriophage T7 are important in DNA unwinding

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

Volumn 107, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 6782-6787

  Satapathy, Ajit K ^a   Kochaniak, Anna B ^a   Mukherjee, Sourav ^a,b   Crampton, Donald J ^a,c   Van Oijen, Antoine ^a   Richardson, Charles C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd   (India)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta hairpin; DNA replication; Leading strand synthesis; Oligomerization; Sliding helicase

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; DNA POLYMERASE; HELICASE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA DENATURATION; DNA STRAND; DNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA HELICASES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 77951036168     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002734107     Document Type: Article

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