Template dependent human DNA polymerases

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1312-1326

  Brieba, Luis G ^a,b  

^a Laboratorio Nacional de Genomica para la Biodiversidad

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

DNA polymerases; Structure function

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE DELTA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE EPSILON; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE H; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE IOTA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE KAPPA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE LAMBDA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE MU; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE NU; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE THETA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ZETA; DNA POLYMERASE; DNA POLYMERASE REV1; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFERTILITY; LEUKEMIA; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SKIN CARCINOMA; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 57849155774     PISSN: 15680266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156802608786141098     Document Type: Review

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