Structural Insights into Ring Formation of Cohesin and Related Smc Complexes

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 680-693

  Gligoris, Thomas ^a   Löwe, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; COHESIN; CONDENSIN; DNA; KLEISIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE OF CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

BUDDING YEAST; CHROMOSOME; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATID; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES;

EID: 84964681147     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2016.04.002     Document Type: Review

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