Class-specific restrictions define primase interactions with DNA template and replicative helicase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 7167-7178

  Larson, Marilynn A ^a   Griep, Mark A ^b   Bressani, Rafael ^a   Chintakayala, Kiran ^c   Soultanas, Panos ^c   Hinrichs, Steven H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA PRIMASE; HELICASE; PRIMER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRINUCLEOTIDE; ZINC BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESTRICTION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA; FIRMICUTES; GEOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; YERSINIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA PRIMASE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; FIRMICUTES; GEOBACILLUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; YERSINIA;

EID: 78651339548     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq588     Document Type: Article

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