Identification of a DNA primase template tracking site redefines the geometry of primer synthesis

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-169

  Corn, Jacob E ^a   Pelton, Jeffrey G ^a   Berger, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA PRIMASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 38849106170     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1373     Document Type: Article

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