Crystal structure of the Pyrococcus horikoshii DNA primase-UTP complex: Implications for the mechanism of primer synthesis

Genes to Cells

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 913-923

  Ito, Nobutoshi ^a,b   Nureki, Osamu ^b,c,e,f   Shirouzu, Mikako ^c,e   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^b,c,e   Hanaoka, Fumio ^a,d  

^a Discovery Research Institute   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^f TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; DNA PRIMASE; PRIMER DNA; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DEOXYCYTOSINE NUCLEOTIDES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA PRIMASE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII;

EID: 0346025633     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2003.00693.x     Document Type: Article

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