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SUBMITTER: Baranovskiy AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5333051 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Baranovskiy Andrey G AG Tahirov Tahir H TH
Genes 20170208 2
The human primosome is a 340-kilodalton complex of primase (DNA-dependent RNA polymerase) and DNA polymerase α, which initiates genome replication by synthesizing chimeric RNA-DNA primers for DNA polymerases δ and ϵ. Accumulated biochemical and structural data reveal the complex mechanism of concerted primer synthesis by two catalytic centers. First, primase generates an RNA primer through three steps: initiation, consisting of dinucleotide synthesis from two nucleotide triphosphates; elongation ...[more]