Crystal structure of the C-terminal domain of human DNA primase large subunit Implications for the mechanism of the primase - Polymerase α switch

Cell Cycle

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 926-931

  Agarkar, Vinod B ^a   Babayeva, Nigar D ^a   Pavlov, Youri I ^a   Tahirov, Tahir H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; DNA PRIMASE; PRIMER RNA; PROTEIN P58; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; YEAST;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79952674723     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.10.6.15010     Document Type: Article

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