Structure of a bifunctional DNA primase-polymerase

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 157-162

  Lipps, Georg ^a   Weinzierl, Andreas O ^b   Von Scheven, Gudrun ^a   Buchen, Claudia ^b   Cramer, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; DNA PRIMASE; MANGANESE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE REPLICATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMASE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; METALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFOLOBUS;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; LIGUSTRUM VULGARE; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS;

EID: 0742305294     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb723     Document Type: Article

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