Historical view of DNA replication studies, with special reference to Japan

IUBMB Life

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 323-327

  Sugino, Akio ^a   Araki, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eukaryotic chromosomal DNA replication forks; Lagging strand synthesis; Leading strand synthesis; Okazaki fragments

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; HELICASE; OKAZAKI FRAGMENT; PROTEIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA SYNTHESIS; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EID: 33745112310     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15216540600732070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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