Helicase structures: a new twist on DNA unwinding.
The crystal structures of two members of the SF1 family of helicases, Rep and PcrA, and one member of the SF2 family of helicases, the HCV RNA helicase, have recently been solved. These structures illuminate the roles of the conserved helicase motifs in catalytic function and offer clues as to how these proteins can translocate along DNA.
Marians
K J
KJ
Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA. k-marians@ski.mskcc.org
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D002384:Catalysis; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism*; D004265:DNA Helicases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000737:chemistry
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D015534:Trans-Activators; C084217:pcrA protein, Bacteria; C045264:replication initiator protein; D004247:DNA; D004265:DNA Helicases