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Crystal Structure of Eukaryotic DNA Ligase-Adenylate Chlorella virus DNA ligase (ChVLig) is the smallest eukaryotic ATP-dependent ligase known. As the “minimal” DNA ligase, it presented an attractive ...
Here we report the crystal structure of human Xrcc4 bound to a polypeptide that corresponds to the DNA ligase IV sequence linking its two BRCA1 C-terminal (BRCT) domains. In the complex ...
DNA Ligases catalyze a couple of possible reactions ... odd distortions created by trying to squeeze a three-dimensional structure down into the 2-D realm, you'll see that, on the top strand ...
RNA breaks destined for repair are inflicted by sequence-specific or structure-specific endoribonucleases during ... termini via three nucleotidyl transfer steps similar to those of DNA ligases: (Step ...