Eukaryotic DNA polymerases

R Jain, AK Aggarwal, O Rechkoblit - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Humans encode 16 bone-fide DNA polymerases.•Replicative DNA polymerases
are emerging as highly flexible and dynamic in their interactions.•Mutations in replicative …

Recent developments in molecular sensor designs for inorganic pyrophosphate detection and biological imaging

S Anbu, A Paul, GJ Stasiuk, AJL Pombeiro - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) is a key anion which plays a crucial role in an extensive
range of biological and ecological processes. PPi is involved in many physiological …

[HTML][HTML] Cryo-EM structure of an extended SARS-CoV-2 replication and transcription complex reveals an intermediate state in cap synthesis

L Yan, J Ge, L Zheng, Y Zhang, Y Gao, T Wang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Transcription of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA requires sequential reactions facilitated by
the replication and transcription complex (RTC). Here, we present a structural snapshot of …

Nanoplasmonic amplification in microfluidics enables accelerated colorimetric quantification of nucleic acid biomarkers from pathogens

T AbdElFatah, M Jalali, SG Yedire, I I. Hosseini… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Deployment of nucleic acid amplification assays for diagnosing pathogens in point-of-care
settings is a challenge due to lengthy preparatory steps. We present a molecular diagnostic …

A prebiotic basis for ATP as the universal energy currency

S Pinna, C Kunz, A Halpern, SA Harrison… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
ATP is universally conserved as the principal energy currency in cells, driving metabolism
through phosphorylation and condensation reactions. Such deep conservation suggests that …

Metal/ADP complexes promote phosphorylation of ribonucleotides

E Werner, S Pinna, RJ Mayer… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Under enzyme catalysis, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) transfers a phosphoryl group to
canonical ribonucleotide diphosphates (NDPs) to form ribonucleotide triphosphates (NTPs) …

Vitamin B12 may inhibit RNA‐dependent‐RNA polymerase activity of nsp12 from the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus

N Narayanan, DT Nair - IUBMB life, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
SARS‐CoV‐2 is the causative agent for the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, and this virus
belongs to the Coronaviridae family. Like other members of this family, the virus possesses a …

Two-metal-ion catalysis: Inhibition of DNA polymerase activity by a third divalent metal ion

J Wang, WH Konigsberg - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Almost all DNA polymerases (pols) exhibit bell-shaped activity curves as a function of both
pH and Mg2+ concentration. The pol activity is reduced when the pH deviates from the …

The ambivalent role of water at the origins of life

A do Nascimento Vieira, K Kleinermanns… - FEBS …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Life as we know it would not exist without water. However, water molecules not only serve as
a solvent and reactant but can also promote hydrolysis, which counteracts the formation of …

Analysis and validation of silica-immobilised BST polymerase in loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for malaria diagnosis

D Seevaratnam, F Ansah, Y Aniweh… - Analytical and …, 2022 - Springer
Bacillus stearothermophilus large fragment (BSTLF) DNA polymerase is reported, isolated
on silica via a fused R5 silica-affinity peptide and used in nucleic acid diagnostics. mCherry …