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Crystal structure of the Pyrococcus horikoshii DNA primase-UTP complex: implications for the mechanism of primer synthesis.
Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms - 1 Dec 2003
Ito Nobutoshi, Nureki Osamu, Shirouzu Mikako, Yokoyama Shigeyuki, Hanaoka Fumio
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BACKGROUND: In chromosomal DNA replication, DNA primase initiates the synthesis of a dinucleotide on a single-stranded template DNA, and elongates it to form a primer RNA for the replicative DNA polymerase. Although the apo-structure of an archaeal primase has been reported, the mechanism of primer synthesis by the eukaryotic-type primase still remains to be elucidated. RESULTS: In this study, we present the...
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