The X family portrait: Structural insights into biological functions of X family polymerases

DNA Repair

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1709-1725

  Moon, Andrea F ^a   Garcia Diaz, Miguel ^a   Batra, Vinod K ^a   Beard, William A ^a   Bebenek, Katarzyna ^a   Kunkel, Thomas A ^a   Wilson, Samuel H ^a   Pedersen, Lars C ^a  

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

Author keywords

DNA polymerase ; DNA polymerase ; DNA polymerase ; Family X polymerase; Frameshift; Gap filling; Lesion bypass; Misalignment; Misinsertion; Substrate specificity; TdT; Template dependence; Template independence

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

CATALYSIS; DNA BINDING; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE INSERTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 35748960204     PISSN: 15687864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2007.05.009     Document Type: Review

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