Structural insight into the substrate specificity of DNA Polymerase μ

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-53

  Moon, Andrea F ^a   Garcia Diaz, Miguel ^a   Bebenek, Katarzyna ^a   Davis, Bryan J ^b,c   Zhong, Xuejun ^a   Ramsden, Dale A ^b,c   Kunkel, Thomas A ^a   Pedersen, Lars C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEADY STATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THYMINE NUCLEOTIDES;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 33846075032     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1180     Document Type: Article

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