Eukaryotic DNA helicases
- 1 August 1990
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 268 (2) , 325-328
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(90)81279-w
Abstract
DNA is very stable in its double‐stranded form. For many processes of DNA metabolism, such as replication, repair, recombination and transcription, the DNA has to be brought transiently into a single‐stranded form. DNA helicases are enzymes capable of melting the hydrogen bonds of base pairs by using the energy of nucleoside‐5'‐triphosphate hydrolysis. This minireview focusses on the current knowledge of DNA helicases from eukaryotic cells.Keywords
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