Diversity and evolution of B-family DNA polymerases

D Kazlauskas, M Krupovic, J Guglielmini… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
B-family DNA polymerases (PolBs) represent the most common replicases. PolB enzymes
that require RNA (or DNA) primed templates for DNA synthesis are found in all domains of …

Predation and eukaryote cell origins: a coevolutionary perspective

T Cavalier-Smith - The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Cells are of only two kinds: bacteria, with DNA segregated by surface membrane motors,
dating back∼ 3.5 Gy; and eukaryotes, which evolved from bacteria, possibly as recently as …

[HTML][HTML] Unification of Cas protein families and a simple scenario for the origin and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

KS Makarova, L Aravind, YI Wolf, EV Koonin - Biology direct, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Background The CRISPR-Cas adaptive immunity systems that are present in most
Archaea and many Bacteria function by incorporating fragments of alien genomes into …

Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group

T Nunoura, Y Takaki, J Kakuta, S Nishi… - Nucleic acids …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The domain Archaea has historically been divided into two phyla, the Crenarchaeota and
Euryarchaeota. Although regarded as members of the Crenarchaeota based on small …

Methods and compositions for targeted nucleic acid sequence coverage

M Jarosz, M Schnall-Levin - US Patent 11,274,343, 2022 - Google Patents
Int. Ci. C12Q 1/6806(2018.01) C12Q 1/6869 (2018.01) C12Q 1/6874 (2018.01)(52) US CI.
CPC C12Q 1/6874 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6806 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6869 (2013.01)(58) Field of …

[HTML][HTML] Origin of the cell nucleus, mitosis and sex: roles of intracellular coevolution

T Cavalier-Smith - Biology direct, 2010 - Springer
Background The transition from prokaryotes to eukaryotes was the most radical change in
cell organisation since life began, with the largest ever burst of gene duplication and novelty …

Methods and compositions for nucleic acid analysis

X Zheng, S Saxonov, M Schnall-Levin, K Ness… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
US10774370B2 - Methods and compositions for nucleic acid analysis - Google Patents
US10774370B2 - Methods and compositions for nucleic acid analysis - Google Patents …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of DNA polymerases: an inactivated polymerase-exonuclease module in Pol ε and a chimeric origin of eukaryotic polymerases from two classes of …

TH Tahirov, KS Makarova, IB Rogozin, YI Pavlov… - Biology direct, 2009 - Springer
Background Evolution of DNA polymerases, the key enzymes of DNA replication and repair,
is central to any reconstruction of the history of cellular life. However, the details of the …

[HTML][HTML] The replication machinery of LUCA: common origin of DNA replication and transcription

EV Koonin, M Krupovic, S Ishino, Y Ishino - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Origin of DNA replication is an enigma because the replicative DNA polymerases (DNAPs)
are not homologous among the three domains of life, Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya. The …

Archaeology of eukaryotic DNA replication

KS Makarova, EV Koonin - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Recent advances in the characterization of the archaeal DNA replication system together
with comparative genomic analysis have led to the identification of several previously …