"Minichromosome Maintenance Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of proteins that were originally identified in SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE as being essential for maintaining the structure of minichromosomes00. They form into a protein complex that has helicase activity and is involved in a variety of DNA-related functions including replication elongation, RNA transcription, chromatin remodeling, and genome stability.
| Descriptor ID |
D064110
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.040.025.159.186 D08.811.399.340.186 D12.776.167.409 D12.776.660.235.500 D12.776.664.235.750
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| Concept/Terms |
MCM Protein Complex- MCM Protein Complex
- MCM2-7 Helicase
- Helicase, MCM2-7
- MCM2 7 Helicase
- MCM2-7 Complex
- MCM2 7 Complex
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