HNH proteins are a widespread component of phage DNA packaging machines

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 6022-6027

  Kala, Smriti ^a   Cumby, Nichole ^a   Sadowski, Paul D ^a   Hyder, Batool Zafar ^b   Kanelis, Voula ^b   Davidson, Alan R ^a   Maxwell, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage HK97; HNH endonuclease; Molecular chaperone

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HNH PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOINFORMATICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA PACKAGING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOPHAGE HK97; HNH ENDONUCLEASE; MOLECULAR CHAPERONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA PACKAGING; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84899101737     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320952111     Document Type: Article

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