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ArticleArchaea (Vancouver, B.C.)2010

Different residues on the surface of the Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus MCM helicase interact with single- and double-stranded DNA.

Nozomi Sakakibara, Rajesh Kasiviswanathan, Zvi Kelman

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Article in Archaea (Vancouver, B.C.), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nozomi SakakibaraCenter for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. sakakibaran@niaid.nih.gov
Rajesh Kasiviswanathan
Zvi Kelman

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) complex is thought to function as the replicative helicase in archaea, separating the two strands of chromosomal DNA during replication. The catalytic activity resides within the C-terminal region of the MCM protein, while the N-terminal portion plays an important role in DNA binding and protein multimerization. An alignment of MCM homologues from several archaeal species revealed a number of conserved amino acids. Here several of the conserved residues located on the surface of the helicase have been mutated and their roles in MCM functions determined. It was found that some mutations result in increased affinity for ssDNA while the affinity for dsDNA is decreased. Other mutants exhibit the opposite effect. Thus, the data suggest that these conserved surface residues may participate in MCM-DNA interactions.

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Point MutationAmino Acid SequenceConserved SequenceDNADNA HelicasesDNA ReplicationDNA, Single-StrandedMethanobacteriaceaeModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataSequence AlignmentDNADNA HelicasesDNA, Single-Stranded

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PMID21151660
PMCPMC2997501

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