Preparing to unwind.
other · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24692453.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.02618 and PMC identifier 3970755.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
A combination of protein crystallography and biochemistry has revealed how a ring-shaped helicase might trap a single DNA strand as the double helix melts, and before it is unwound.
Medical subject headings
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA Replication
- DNA, Single-Stranded
- Minichromosome Maintenance Proteins