Helicase motifs: the engine that powers DNA unwinding
Open Access
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 34 (5) , 867-877
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01659.x
Abstract
Helicases play essential roles in nearly all DNA metabolic transactions and have been implicated in a variety of human genetic disorders. A hallmark of these enzymes is the existence of a set of high...Keywords
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