• DNA polymerase IV is a prokaryotic polymerase that is involved in mutagenesis and is encoded by the dinB gene. It exhibits no 3′→5′ exonuclease (proofreading)...
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    A DNA polymerase is a member of a family of enzymes that catalyze the synthesis of DNA molecules from nucleoside triphosphates, the molecular precursors...
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    DNA polymerase II (also known as DNA Pol II or Pol II) is a prokaryotic DNA-dependent DNA polymerase encoded by the PolB gene. DNA Polymerase II is an...
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    DNA polymerase III holoenzyme is the primary enzyme complex involved in prokaryotic DNA replication. It was discovered by Thomas Kornberg (son of Arthur...
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    DNA polymerase IV (DinB) and DNA polymerase V (UmuD'2C) - SOS repair polymerases; Pol η, ι, κ Reverse transcriptase (RT; RNA-directed DNA polymerase;...
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    DNA polymerase I (or Pol I) is an enzyme that participates in the process of prokaryotic DNA replication. Discovered by Arthur Kornberg in 1956, it was...
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  • DNA polymerase may refer to: DNA polymerase, enzymes that create DNA molecules by assembling nucleotides DNA polymerase I, an enzyme that participates...
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    In molecular biology, RNA polymerase (abbreviated RNAP or RNApol), or more specifically DNA-directed/dependent RNA polymerase (DdRP), is an enzyme that...
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    of the DNA polymerase III holoenzyme, the clamp protein binds DNA polymerase and prevents this enzyme from dissociating from the template DNA strand....
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    switching out regular DNA polymerases for specialized translesion polymerases (i.e. DNA polymerase IV or V, from the Y Polymerase family), often with larger...
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    DNA polymerase mu is a polymerase enzyme found in eukaryotes. In humans, this protein is encoded by the POLM gene. Pol μ is a member of the X family of...
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  • known as RNA Polymerases, which synthesize RNA from DNA templates. Discovered via phylogenetic studies of land plants, genes of RNAP IV are thought to...
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  • gyrase and topoisomerase IV remove the positive supercoils that accumulate ahead of a translocating DNA polymerase, allowing DNA replication to continue...
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    transferase (TdT), also known as DNA nucleotidylexotransferase (DNTT) or terminal transferase, is a specialized DNA polymerase expressed in immature, pre-B...
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  • in an ATP dependent manner while double-stranded DNA is being unwound by elongating RNA-polymerase or by helicase in front of the progressing replication...
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    Dicer and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase proteins. RdDM has been implicated in a number of regulatory processes in plants. The DNA methylation added by RdDM...
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    POLK (redirect from DNA polymerase kappa)
    DNA polymerase kappa is a DNA polymerase that in humans is encoded by the POLK gene. It is involved in translesion synthesis. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89:...
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    the polymerase. This process involves the exonuclease's catching up to the pol II and terminating the transcription. Pol I then synthesizes DNA nucleotides...
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    subunit of DNA polymerase III in environments of varying salt concentrations. In DNA replication at the lagging strand site, DNA polymerase III removes...
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    in repairing single-strand breaks in duplex DNA in living organisms, but some forms (such as DNA ligase IV) may specifically repair double-strand breaks...
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  • of the DNA duplex during DNA replication and transcription. If left unchanged, this torsion would eventually stop the DNA or RNA polymerases involved...
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  • core enzymes – a recombinase, a single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB) and strand-displacing polymerase. Recombinases are capable of pairing oligonucleotide...
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    Primase (DnaG protein). Deoxynucleotides are then added to this primer by a single DNA polymerase III dimer, in an integrated complex with DnaB helicase...
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    required for DNA/RNA synthesis. Because DNA must be unwound for DNA/RNA polymerase action, supercoils will result. The region ahead of the polymerase complex...
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  • Operon (redirect from DNA operator)
    which provides a site for RNA polymerase to bind and initiate transcription. Close to the promoter lies a section of DNA called an operator. All the structural...
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    occur before DNA synthesis can initiate because DNA polymerases require a 3' hydroxyl to extend from. Pol β is the main human polymerase that catalyzes...
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    DNA polymerase makes an error resulting in a mismatched base-pair or a small insertion or deletion during DNA synthesis, the cell will repair the DNA...
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    Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods are often used for amplification of specific DNA or RNA (RT-PCR) sequences prior to molecular cloning. DNA for...
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  • (siRNA). Together with RNA polymerase IV (Pol IV), Pol V is involved in an siRNA-dependent epigenetic pathway known as RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM), which...
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    Non-homologous end joining (category DNA repair)
    terminus used to initiate DNA synthesis is less stable at 3' overhangs, necessitating a specialized NHEJ polymerase. The DNA ligase IV complex, consisting of...
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