A single-molecule view of the assembly pathway, subunit stoichiometry, and unwinding activity of the bacteriophage T4 primosome (helicase-primase) complex

Biochemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3157-3170

  Lee, Wonbae ^a   Jose, Davis ^a   Phelps, Carey ^a   Marcus, Andrew H ^a   Von Hippel, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA REPLICATION FORKS; HELICASE ACTIVITIES; HELICASE SUBSTRATES; HEXAMERIC HELICASES; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCES; UNWINDING ACTIVITY;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CHROMOPHORES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTS; MOLECULES; STOICHIOMETRY;

DNA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA PRIMASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HELICASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; STOICHIOMETRY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA PRIMASE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84877357252     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi400231s     Document Type: Article

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