PrimPol—A new polymerase on the block

Molecular and Cellular Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Rudd, Sean G ^a,b   Bianchi, Julie ^a,c   Doherty, Aidan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AEP; DNA; lesions; polymerase; primase; PrimPol; replication; repriming; restart; TLS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945221802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23723556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/23723548.2014.960754     Document Type: Review

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