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Conserved disruptions in the predicted coiled-coil domains of eukaryotic SMC complexes: implications for structure and function.
Genome research - 1 Aug 2002
Beasley Matthew, Xu Huiling, Warren William, McKay Michael
Abstract excerpt
The structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) proteins are required for a number of essential nuclear processes, including those of chromosome condensation, chromatid cohesion, and DNA repair. Eukaryotic SMC proteins form heterodimers capable of binding DNA and possess a DNA-stimulated ATPase activity. They have a characteristic structure of terminal globular domains with two internal arms that are predicted to...
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