Encyclopedia > DNA polymerase

  Article Content

DNA polymerase

A DNA polymerase is an enzyme that replicates DNA. Such enzymes catalyze the polymerization of deoxyribonucleotides alongside a DNA strand, which they "read" and use as a template. The newly polymerized molecule is complimentary to the template strand and identical to the template's partner strand.

5' to 3' direction

Highly conserved.

DNAPI, DNAPII

holoenzyme. error correction. helicase.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
List of closed London Underground stations

... of which were at the far end of the Metropolitan Line, and stretch the definition of "tube station" a little: Waddesdon tube station[?] Quainton Road tube ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 21.8 ms