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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Main Authors: Pan, Miao, Santangelo, Thomas J., Li, Zhuo, Reeve, John N., Kelman, Zvi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3239210/