The Mycoplasma genitalium MG352-encoded protein is a Holliday junction resolvase that has a non-functional orthologue in Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1261-1277

  Sluijter, Marcel ^a   Kaptein, Edwin ^a   Spuesens, Emiel B M ^a   Hoogenboezem, Theo ^a   Hartwig, Nico G ^a   Van Rossum, Annemarie M C ^a   Vink, Cornelis ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN MG352; RESOLVASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA BINDING; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RECU GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RESOLVASES; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 77956147128     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07288.x     Document Type: Article

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