Imaging and energetics of single SSB-ssDNA molecules reveal intramolecular condensation and insight into RecOR function

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue September 2015, 2015, Pages

  Bell, Jason C ^a,b   Liu, Bian ^a,c   Kowalczykowski, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RECO PROTEIN, E COLI; RECR PROTEIN, E COLI; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SSB PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRAMOLECULAR CONDENSATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; OPTICAL IMAGING; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 84949952959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.08646     Document Type: Article

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