Structural and functional insights into DNA-end processing by the archaeal HerA helicase-NurA nuclease complex

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3183-3196

  Blackwood, John K ^a   Rzechorzek, Neil J ^a   Abrams, Andrew S ^a   Maman, Joseph D ^a   Pellegrini, Luca ^a   Robinson, Nicholas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EPITOPE; HELICASE; HERA HELICASE; MRE11 PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; NURA NUCLEASE; RAD50 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA REPAIR; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HERA GENE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; METHANOTHERMOBACTER THERMAUTOTROPHICUS; NONHUMAN; NURA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; STOICHIOMETRY; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; SULFOLOBUS TOKODAII; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA HELICASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE H; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 84860126885     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1157     Document Type: Article

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