Strand separation establishes a sustained lock at the Tus-Ter replication fork barrier

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 579-585

  Berghuis, Bojk A ^a   Dulin, David ^a,c   Xu, Zhi Qiang ^b   Van Laar, Theo ^a   Cross, Bronwen ^a   Janissen, Richard ^a   Jergic, Slobodan ^b   Dixon, Nicholas E ^b   Depken, Martin ^a   Dekker, Nynke H ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TER PROTEIN; TUS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CIRCULAR DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA REPLICATION TERMINUS SITE-BINDING PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; TUS PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; DNA BINDING; DNA HAIRPIN; DNA REPLICATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84937729550     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1857     Document Type: Article

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