Proofreading exonuclease on a tether: The complex between the E. coli DNA polymerase III subunits α, ε, θ and β reveals a highly flexible arrangement of the proofreading domain

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5354-5367

  Ozawa, Kiyoshi ^a,b   Horan, Nicholas P ^a   Robinson, Andrew ^a   Yagi, Hiromasa ^b   Hill, Flynn R ^a   Jergic, Slobodan ^a   Xu, Zhi Qiang ^a   Loscha, Karin V ^b   Li, Nan ^a   Tehei, Moeava ^a   Oakley, Aaron J ^a   Otting, Gottfried ^b   Huber, Thomas ^b   Dixon, Nicholas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; DNA POLYMERASE III SUBUNIT ALPHA; DNA POLYMERASE III SUBUNIT BETA; DNA POLYMERASE III SUBUNIT EPSILON; DNA POLYMERASE III SUBUNIT THETA; EXONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STOICHIOMETRY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA POLYMERASE III; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84878571203     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt162     Document Type: Article

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