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Comparative Study

. 2001 Jun 1;293(1):31-7.

doi: 10.1006/abio.2001.5093.

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Comparative Study

Development of a novel helicase assay using electrochemiluminescence

L Zhang et al. Anal Biochem. 2001.

Abstract

DNA helicases are ubiquitous enzymes involved in DNA replication, recombination, and repair. These enzymes use the energy of ATP to unwind duplex DNA. A common approach to measure DNA helicase activity utilizes electrophoresis to visualize product formation in a gel. The present study develops a rapid helicase assay based on electrochemiluminescence. The assay is adaptable to rapid high-throughput screening for chemical inhibitors. The assay is applied to Escherichia coli DnaB. Three other technologies have also been applied to DnaB and are compared to results of the electrochemiluminescence-based assay.

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