Modeling the early stage of DNA sequence recognition within RecA nucleoprotein filaments

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6313-6323

  Saladin, Adrien ^a,b   Amourda, Christopher ^a   Poulain, Pierre ^c   Férey, Nicolas ^a   Baaden, Marc ^a   Zacharias, Martin ^d   Delalande, Olivier ^a   Prévost, Chantal ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine   (France)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RECA PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REC A RECOMBINASES;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 78049378633     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq459     Document Type: Article

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