Revisiting the central dogma one molecule at a time

Cell

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 480-497

  Bustamante, Carlos ^a,b,c   Cheng, Wei ^d   Meija, Yara X ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE; NUCLEIC ACID;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA PACKAGING; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID TRANSPORT; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

EID: 79951703348     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.01.033     Document Type: Review

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