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4m4w
From Proteopedia
Mechanistic implications for the bacterial primosome assembly of the structure of a helicase-helicase loader complex
Function
[DNAI_BACSU] Probably involved in DNA replication. [PRIM_GEOSE] DNA primase is the polymerase that synthesizes small RNA primers for the Okazaki fragments on both template strands at replication forks during chromosomal DNA synthesis.
About this Structure
4m4w is a 15 chain structure with sequence from Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis str. 168 and Geobacillus stearothermophilus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
