Staphylococcal SCCmec elements encode an active MCM-like helicase and thus may be replicative

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 891-898

  Mir Sanchis, Ignacio ^a   Roman, Christina A ^a   Misiura, Agnieszka ^a,b   Pigli, Ying Z ^a   Boyle Vavra, Susan ^a   Rice, Phoebe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CCH ENZYME; DNA HELICASE; HELICASE; RECOMBINASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL DNA GLYCOSIDASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME; CLADISTICS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DNA REPLICATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EXCISION REPAIR; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENOMIC ISLAND; HYDROLYSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC ELEMENT; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84984600782     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3286     Document Type: Article

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