References & Sources

Picturing an enzyme that helps DNA unwind

A detailed picture of a helicase may help explain how this enzyme pries apart DNA.

References:

Sawaya, M.R. . . . and T. Ellenberger. 1999. Crystal structure of the helicase domain from the replicative helicase-primase of bacteriophage T7. Cell 99(Oct. 15):167.

Sources:

Tom Ellenberger
Harvard Medical School
Department of Biological Chemistry and
Molecular Pharmacology
Boston, MA 02115

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 23, December 4, 1999, p. 365. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.