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Requirements for noncovalent binding of vaccinia topoisomerase I to duplex DNA.
Nucleic acids research - 11 Dec 1994
Sekiguchi J, Shuman S
Abstract excerpt
Vaccinia DNA topoisomerase binds duplex DNA and forms a covalent adduct at sites containing a conserved sequence element 5'(C/T)CCTT decreases in the scissile strand. Distinctive aspects of noncovalent versus covalent interaction emerge from analysis of the binding properties of Topo(Phe-274), a mutated protein which is unable to cleave DNA, but which binds DNA noncovalently. Whereas DNA cleavage by wild type...
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