Journal ArticleAuthors : Cordoba, John J (2023)
In eukaryotes, DNA polymerase α-primase (pol-prim) initiates DNA synthesis during replication, generating the first ~30 nucleotides of nascent strands.1–5 Pol-prim is unique among replicative polymerases in its ability to perform de novo synthesis from a single-stranded DNA template; the primers it creates are required for further synthesis by the processive polymerases ε and δ that perform the bulk of nascent strand synthesis6,7. Pol-prim plays a particularly...