Replication clamps and clamp loaders

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1-19

  Hedglin, Mark ^a   Kumar, Ravindra ^a   Benkovic, Stephen J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; REPLICATION FACTOR C;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEON; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPLICATION; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPLICATION PROTEIN C;

EID: 84870730829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a010165     Document Type: Article

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