| replicase | <enzyme> Generic (and rather unhelpful) term for an enzyme that duplicates a polynucleotide sequence (either RNA or DNA). The term is more usefully restricted to the enzyme involved in the replication of certain viral RNA molecules. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| RNA replicase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses RNA-template-directed extension of the 3'- end of an RNA strand by one nucleotide at a time, and can initiate a chain de novo. (enzyme nomenclature, 1992, p293) Chemical name: Nucleoside-triphosphate:RNA nucleotidyltransferase (RNA-directed) Registry number: EC 2.7.7.48 (12 Dec 1998) |
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| DNA replicase | <enzyme> An aspect of EC 2.7.7.7; mouse enzyme has both DNA polymerase and DNA primase activity Registry number: EC 2.7.7.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| q beta replicase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the replication of the RNA of coliphage q beta. Registry number: EC 2.7.7.- (12 Dec 1998) |
| tobacco mosaic virus replicase | <enzyme> Involved in resistance of plants to tmv; transgenic plants expressing additional insertion (an is10-like transposable element) in the tmv replicase gene are resistant to tmv Registry number: EC 2.7.7.- Synonym: tmv 183 kD replicase (26 Jun 1999) |