Novel mutations in Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus reverse transcriptase increase thermostability through tighter binding to template-primer

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 473-481

  Arezi, Bahram ^a   Hogrefe, Holly ^a  

^a AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME STABILITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HALF LIFE TIME; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMOSTABILITY; WILD TYPE;

DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MUTAGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS;

EID: 59749085863     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn952     Document Type: Article

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