Are DEAD-box proteins becoming respectable helicases?
- 1 February 2000
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
- Vol. 7 (2) , 97-99
- https://doi.org/10.1038/72464
Abstract
The vaccinia NPH-II RNA helicase, a member of the DEAD/DExH-box protein family, has been shown to be a processive, unidirectional RNA helicase with a step size of about one half turn of a helix. This finding demonstrates that RNA helicases can function as molecular motors.Keywords
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