The RdgC protein employs a novel mechanism involving a finger domain to bind to circular DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6433-6446

  Briggs, Geoffrey S ^a   Yu, Jing ^a   Mahdi, Akeel A ^a   Lloyd, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN RDGC; RECA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ENZYME INHIBITION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BINDING SITES; DIMERIZATION; DNA HELICASES; DNA, CIRCULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA;

EID: 78049397469     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq509     Document Type: Article

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