Properties of an unusual DNA primase from an archaeal plasmid

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 5635-5645

  Beck, Kirsten ^a   Lipps, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; DNA POLYMERASE; DNA PRIMASE; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN PRN1; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PRIMASE; DNA PRIMERS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEOTIDES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFOLOBUS; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34848826636     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm625     Document Type: Article

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