Evolution and origin of sliding clamp in bacteria, archaea and eukarya.

The replication of DNA is an essential process in all domains of life. A protein often involved in replication is the sliding clamp. The sliding clamp encircles the DNA and helps replicative polymerase stay attached to the replication machinery increasing the processivity of the polymerase. In eukar...

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Main Authors: Sandesh Acharya, Amol Dahal, Hitesh Kumar Bhattarai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241093