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Mutations altering the interplay between GkDnaC helicase and DNA reveal an insight into helicase unwinding.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Lo Yu-Hua, Liu Shih-Wei, Sun Yuh-Ju, Li Hung-Wen, Lizz Hung-Wen, Hsiao Chwan-Deng
Abstract excerpt
Replicative helicases are essential molecular machines that utilize energy derived from NTP hydrolysis to move along nucleic acids and to unwind double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). Our earlier crystal structure of the hexameric helicase from Geobacillus kaustophilus HTA426 (GkDnaC) in complex with single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) suggested several key residues responsible for DNA binding that likely play a role in DNA...
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