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Purification and functional analysis of recombinant Acholeplasma laidlawii histone-like HU protein.
Biochimie - 1 Jul 2011
Levitskiy S A, Sycheva A M, Kharlampieva D D, Oberto J, Kamashev D E, Serebryakova M V, Moshkovskii S A, Lazarev V N, Govorun V M
Abstract excerpt
HU is a most abundant DNA-binding protein in bacteria. This protein is conserved either in its heterodimeric form or in one of its homodimeric forms in all bacteria, in plant chloroplasts, and in some viruses. HU protein non-specifically binds and bends DNA as a hetero- or homodimer and can participate in DNA supercoiling and DNA condensation. It also takes part in some DNA functions such as replication,...
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