Nucleic Acid Polymerases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Murakami, Katsuhiko S. (Editor), Trakselis, Michael A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, 30
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Gene expression.; Nucleic acids.; Enzymology.; Cell biology.; Life Sciences.; Nucleic Acid Chemistry.; Gene Expression.; Cell Biology.

This book provides a review of the multitude of nucleic acid polymerases, including DNA and RNA polymerases from Archea, Bacteria and Eukaryota, mitochondrial and viral polymerases, and other specialized polymerases such as telomerase, template-independent terminal nucleotidyl transferase and RNA se...

Table of Contents:

• Structural aspects of mitochondrial ribosome function
• Mechanism and control of protein synthesis in mammalian mitochondria
• Translation in mammalian mitochondria : Order and disorder linked to tRNA and Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases
• Mitochondrial targeting of RNA and mitochondrial translation in yeast and mammalians
• Mechanisms and control of protein synthesis in yeast mitochondria
• Mitochondrial translation in trypanosomatids
• Translation in mitochondria and apicoplasts in Apicomplexa
• Translation in mitochondria in green alga and higher plants
• Translation in flowering plant chloroplasts
• The chloroplasts as platform for recombinant proteins production.