Template-directed biopolymerization:Tape-copying turing machines

Biophysical Reviews and Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 135-175

  Sharma, Ajeet K ^a   Chowdhury, Debashish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

fatty acid synthesis; Molecular machine; molecular motor; non ribosomal protein synthesis; polyketide synthesis; polymerase; ribosome; transcription; translation; Turing machine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA HYBRID; DNA POLYMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR G; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; OKAZAKI FRAGMENT; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRAND; DNA TEMPLATE; ELASTICITY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYDROLYSIS; MACHINE; MACROMOLECULE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERIZATION; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPLISOME; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA VIRUS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; TAPE COPYING TURING MACHINE;

EID: 84873425409     PISSN: 17930480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793048012300083     Document Type: Review

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