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The first “DNA-unwinding protein” to be characterized was the T4 bacteriophage gene 32-protein (Alberts and Frey, 1970). Since then, other proteins of similar type have been obtained from a variety of organisms. In this article, I would like to review some of their properties and discuss their possible roles in DNA replication.
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Alberts, B. (1974). DNA-Unwinding Proteins and their Role in the Replication of DNA. In: Kolber, A.R., Kohiyama, M. (eds) Mechanism and Regulation of DNA Replication. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2124-8_12
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