Active and passive mechanisms of helicases

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 5518-5526

  Manosas, Maria ^a   Xi, Xu Guang ^b   Bensimon, David ^a,c   Croquette, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN 41; GUANINE; HELICASE; RECQ HELICASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; DNA HELICASE; GENE 41 PROTEIN, ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T4; RECQ PROTEIN, E COLI; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSLOCATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

BIOCATALYSIS; DNA; DNA HELICASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECQ HELICASES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77956523183     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq273     Document Type: Article

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