Real-time monitoring of RAG-catalyzed DNA cleavage unveils dynamic changes in coding end association with the coding end complex

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 6082-6096

  Wang, Guannan ^a   Dhar, Kajari ^b   Swanson, Patrick C ^b   Levitus, Marcia ^a   Chang, Yung ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H3; MAGNESIUM ION; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DNA CLEAVAGE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

BIOCATALYSIS; DNA; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MAGNESIUM; MUTATION; VDJ RECOMBINASES;

EID: 84864482805     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks255     Document Type: Article

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