The power of pumping together; deconstructing the engine of a DNA replication machine.

Eichman, Brandt F; Fanning, Ellen · Cell · 2004

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The replicative DNA helicase lies at the heart of the eukaryotic replication machine, yet how it works remains puzzling. New structures of the viral replicative helicase SV40 T antigen suggest that a novel concerted mode of nucleotide binding and hydrolysis powers conformation changes and DNA unwinding.

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