Patent ID: 6852832
Filing Date: 2005-02-08
Classification: C07H,C07K

Abstract:
1. A complex of (a) an isolated single stranded (ss) DNA-binding protein, wherein the ssDNA-binding protein has at least 90% sequence identity to the full-length of an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOS:1, 5, and 6, which protein is an oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide binding (OB)-fold protein which: (i) comprises four ssDNA-binding protein domains, said domains having a channel so sized as to permit binding of ssDNA along the channel; (ii) comprises at least one zinc finger domain in the carboxyl portion of the protein, which zinc finger domain comprises at least four cysteines; and (iii) binds single stranded DNA, and (b) an ssDNA.