Monomeric PcrA helicase processively unwinds plasmid lengths of DNA in the presence of the initiator protein RepD

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5010-5023

  Chisty, Liisa T ^a   Toseland, Christopher P ^a,b   Fili, Natalia ^a,b   Mashanov, Gregory I ^a   Dillingham, Mark S ^c   Molloy, Justin E ^a   Webb, Martin R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PCRA HELICASE; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN REPD; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTINYLATION; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; IMMOBILIZED NUCLEIC ACIDS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84877259630     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt194     Document Type: Article

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