Nucleic acid polymerases use a general acid for nucleotidyl transfer

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 212-218

  Castro, Christian ^a   Smidansky, Eric D ^a   Arnold, Jamie J ^a   Maksimchuk, Kenneth R ^a   Moustafa, Ibrahim ^a   Uchida, Akira ^a   Götte, Matthias ^b   Konigsberg, William ^c   Cameron, Craig E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LIGAND; METAL ION; NUCLEOPHILE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; PYROPHOSPHATE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; VIRUS ATTENUATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACIDS; CATALYSIS; MANGANESE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PROTONS; VIRUSES;

EID: 59649110607     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1540     Document Type: Article

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