Mechanistic insight into the interaction of BLM helicase with intra-strand G-quadruplex structures

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chatterjee, Sujoy ^a   Zagelbaum, Jennifer ^a   Savitsky, Pavel ^b   Sturzenegger, Andreas ^c   Huttner, Diana ^d   Janscak, Pavel ^c   Hickson, Ian D ^d   Gileadi, Opher ^b   Rothenberg, Eli ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; RECQ HELICASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; WRN PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CANCER; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOME; GROWTH RATE; MUTATION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOM SYNDROME; CELL LINE; DNA REPAIR; GENETICS; HUMAN; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BLOOM SYNDROME; CELL LINE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECQ HELICASES;

EID: 84923326943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6556     Document Type: Article

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