Direct role for the RNA polymerase domain of T7 primase in primer delivery

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 9099-9104

  Zhu, Bin ^a   Lee, Seung Joo ^a   Richardson, Charles C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Primer handoff; T7 bacteriophage

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; DNA PRIMASE; GENE 4 PROTEIN; HELICASE; LYSINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; REPLISOME; RNA POLYMERASE; THIOREDOXIN; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCREENING; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7; DNA PRIMASE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRYPTOPHAN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77952704134     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004220107     Document Type: Article

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