The DNA primase of Sulfolobus solfataricus is activated by substrates containing a thymine-rich buibble and has a 3′-terminal nucleotidyl-transferase activity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 5223-5230

  De Falco, Mariarosaria ^a   Fusco, Alessandra ^a   De Felice, Mariarita ^a   Rossi, Mosè ^a   Pisani, Francesca M ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA PRIMASE; NUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN P50; PROTEIN P60; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; THYMINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; POLYTHYMIDYLIC ACID; RNA PRIMERS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOICHIOMETRY; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PH; SULFOLOBUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; DNA PRIMASE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME STABILITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; POLY T; RNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFOLOBUS; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 4944238318     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh865     Document Type: Article

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