Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving nucleic acid
Patent
1993-07-02
1995-11-14
Wityshyn, Michael G.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving nucleic acid
435183, 435193, 935 8, 935 28, C12Q 168, C12N 900, C12N 910, C12N 1554
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active
054665760
ABSTRACT:
Method for affecting viability of a eucaryotic cell by contacting the cell with a modulator of the activity of a PIF-1-type helicase in the cell. Such contacting specifically increases or decreases the specific activity of the helicase in the cell.
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Schulz Vincent P.
Zakian Virginia A.
Degen Nancy J.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Wityshyn Michael G.
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