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A DNA-binding activity in BPV initiator protein E1 required for melting duplex ori DNA but not processive helicase activity initiated on partially single-stranded DNA.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Apr 2008
Sanders Cyril M
Abstract excerpt
The papillomavirus replication protein E1 assembles on the viral origin of replication (ori) as a series of complexes. It has been proposed that the ori DNA is first melted by a head-to-tail double trimer of E1 that evolves into two hexamers that encircle and unwind DNA bi-directionally. Here the role of a conserved lysine residue in the smaller tier or collar of the E1 helicase domain in ori processing is...
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