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2b: la replicación del ADN Jean-Pierre HERVEG y Maritza BARCIA-MACAY Cochabamba, Bolivia 2004 |
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This panel focuses on the lagging strand and illustrates the findings of this report (see Discussion for details). The top diagram shows the clamp loader placing a beta clamp onto a primed site while the lagging-strand polymerase is extending an Okazaki fragment. The C-terminal sequences of tau (tauc) protrude outside the clamp loading machinery and bind core polymerase, DnaB, and DNA. These tau c sequences are needed for the processivity switch that controls the affinity of core for beta in response to DNA structure. The diagram depicts tau c as binding the primed template in conjunction with core, although other arrangements are possible (see Discussion). The switch is off during elongation, allowing core to remain associated with beta on DNA. In the lower right diagram, the lagging-strand polymerase finishes an Okazaki fragment, thereby flipping the processivity switch and turning tau c "on" for disengaging core from beta. The polymerase then dissociates from beta, leaving it behind on the completed fragment. In the bottom left diagram, the lagging-strand polymerase reattaches to beta at the new primed site for extension of another Okazaki fragment. |
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2b: la replicación del ADN Jean-Pierre HERVEG y Maritza BARCIA-MACAY plan |