Breaking and joining single-stranded DNA: the HUH endonuclease superfamily

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 525-538

  Chandler, Michael ^a   De La Cruz, Fernando ^b   Dyda, Fred ^c   Hickman, Alison B ^c   Moncalian, Gabriel ^b   Ton Hoang, Bao ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b University of Cantabria   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; HELICASE; HUH ENDONUCLEASE; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA HAIRPIN; INTRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DEPENDOVIRUS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA, VIRAL; ENDONUCLEASES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84880509250     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3067     Document Type: Review

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