Origin and evolution of the archaeo-eukaryotic primase superfamily and related palm-domain proteins: Structural insights and new members

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3875-3896

  Iyer, Lakshminarayan M ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a   Leipe, Detlef D ^a   Aravind, L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA PRIMASE; HELICASE; VIRUS PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HELICASE PRIMASE, HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; HELICASE-PRIMASE, HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA VIRUS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PLASMID; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPLICON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CHORDATA; DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTA; HERPESVIRIDAE; MIMIVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS; PROKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA HELICASES; DNA PRIMASE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA VIRUSES; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 22444435033     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki702     Document Type: Review

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