Human DHX9 helicase preferentially unwinds RNA-containing displacement loops (R-loops) and G-quadruplexes

DNA Repair

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 654-665

  Chakraborty, Prasun ^a   Grosse, Frank ^a,b  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

D loops; DDX9 helicase; Guanine tetraplexes; R loops; Transcription associated recombination

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; HELICASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION;

DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79957813857     PISSN: 15687864     EISSN: 15687856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2011.04.013     Document Type: Article

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