All tangled up: How cells direct, manage and exploit topoisomerase function

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 827-841

  Vos, Seychelle M ^a   Tretter, Elsa M ^a   Schmidt, Bryan H ^a   Berger, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) B; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ETOPOSIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; RADICICOL; RECQ HELICASE; REPLICATION FACTOR A; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA BINDING; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA PACKAGING; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; METHANOPYRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TOPOISOMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; TOPOISOMERASE INHIBITORS;

EID: 81855198087     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3228     Document Type: Review

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