Two heads are better than one: Single stranded DNA translocation of UvrD-family dimers vs. monomers.
UvrD-family Superfamily 1A helicases are processive ATP-dependent motor proteins that function during DNA replication, recombination, repair, and transcription. UvrD-family monomers translocate along single stranded (ss) DNA with 3'-to-5' directionality but must be activated by dimerization to become helicases in the a...