Contrahelicase activity of the mitochondrial transcription termination factor mtDBP
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Contrahelicase activity of the mitochondrial transcription termination factor mtDBP
The sea urchin mitochondrial D-loop binding protein (mtDBP) is a transcription termination factor that is able to arrest bidirectionally mitochondrial RNA chain elongation. The observation that the mtDBP binding site in the main non-coding region is located in correspondence of the 3' end of the triplex structure, where the synthesis of heavy strand mitochondrial (mt) DNA is either prematurely ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0305-1048,1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki693