X-Nico

unusual facts about DNA synthesis



Junctional diversity

Exonucleases remove these unpaired nucleotides and the gaps are filled by DNA synthesis and repair machinery.

Norbert Bischofberger

He worked as part of the DNA synthesis group at Genentech from 1986–1990, before joining Gilead in 1990 as Director of Organic Chemistry.

Processivity

Because the binding of the polymerase to the template is the rate-limiting step in DNA synthesis, the overall rate of DNA replication during S phase of the cell cycle is dependent on the processivity of the DNA polymerases performing the replication.


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