Thermococcus kodakarensis encodes three MCM homologs but only one is essential
The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) complex is thought to function as the replicative helicase in archaea and eukaryotes. In eukaryotes, this complex is an assembly of six different but related polypeptides (MCM2-7) but, in most archaea, one MCM protein assembles to form a homohexameric complex. At...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3239210/ |