eLife (Apr 2014)

Preparing to unwind

  • Jin Chuan Zhou,
  • Alessandro Costa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.02618
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3

Abstract

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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.

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