Overview: What are helicases?

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 767, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-16

  Wu, Colin G ^a   Spies, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FANCONI ANEMIA GROUP J PROTEIN; FANCONI ANEMIA PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; HELICASE; KINESIN; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WERNER SYNDROME PROTEIN; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM GROUP D PROTEIN; DNA; DNA HELICASE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BLOOM SYNDROME; BREAST CANCER; CHROMATIN; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA DENATURATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FANCONI ANEMIA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; WERNER SYNDROME; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPLICATION; BINDING SITE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA HELIX; DNA TRANSFER; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENETIC RESOURCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84873653618     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5037-5_1     Document Type: Review

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