DNA building blocks: Keeping control of manufacture

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-63

  Hofer, Anders ^a   Crona, Mikael ^b   Logan, Derek T ^c   Sjöberg, Britt Marie ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activity site; Allosteric regulation; ATP cone; DATP inhibition; Ribonucleotide reductase; RNR; Specificity site

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGOMER; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE;

ALLOSTERISM; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; DNA BINDING; DNA REPAIR; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; YEAST;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ALLOSTERIC SITE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DEOXYADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS LEICHMANNII; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION RATE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; YEASTS;

EID: 83755185577     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2011.630372     Document Type: Review

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