Helicase–primase complex

A helicase–primase complex (also helicase-primase, Hel/Prim, H-P or H/P) is a complex of enzymes including DNA helicase and DNA primase. A helicase-primase associated factor protein may also be present.[1]

The complex is used by herpesviruses in which it is responsible for lytic DNA virus replication.[2][3][4] In many dsDNA viruses primase and helicase are fused into a single polypeptide, so that the primase and helicase domains correspond to the N-terminal and C-terminal parts of the protein, respectively.[5] A helicase-primase inhibitor (HPI) is a drug that blocks this action through acting as an enzyme inhibitor.

List of H-P by virus name

List of H-P inhibitors

See also

References

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia of toxicology: Dib-L], Volume 2 edited by Philip Wexler, Bruce D. Anderson
  2. 1 2 "Production and characterisation of Epstein–Barr virus helicase–primase complex and its accessory protein BBLF2/3".
  3. ↑ Hans-Georg Kräusslich; Ralf Bartenschlager (2 December 2008). Antiviral Strategies. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 162–8. ISBN 978-3-540-79086-0.
  4. ↑ Herpes DNA Synthesis: Initiation of New DNA Strands and Discrimination Between Right and Wrong Bases by the Polymerase. ProQuest. 2008. pp. 2–12. ISBN 978-0-549-67366-8.
  5. ↑ Kazlauskas D, Krupovic M, Venclovas Č (2016). "The logic of DNA replication in double-stranded DNA viruses: insights from global analysis of viral genomes" (PDF). Nucleic Acids Res: pii: gkw322. doi:10.1093/nar/gkw322. PMID 27112572.
  6. 1 2 3 "The DNA helicase–primase complex as a target for herpes viral infection". PubMed Central (PMC).


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