Crystal structure of the human primase

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 290, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5635-5646

  Baranovskiy, Andrey G ^a   Zhang, Yinbo ^b   Suwa, Yoshiaki ^a   Babayeva, Nigar D ^a   Gu, Jianyou ^a   Pavlov, Youri I ^a,b   Tahirov, Tahir H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ELONGATION; ENZYMES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ACCESSORY SUBUNITS; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; CONFORMATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; DNA REPLICATIONS; FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS; N-AND C-TERMINAL DOMAINS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; STRUCTURAL BASIS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

DNA PRIMASE; PROTEIN P49; PROTEIN P58; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA; RNA PRIMERS;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; MUTATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA PRIMASE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923862728     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.624742     Document Type: Article

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