Medical Definition of Replisome
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Complex of proteins involved in the replication (elongation) of DNA that moves along as the new complementary strand is synthesised. On this basis a minimum content would be DNA polymerase III and a primosome. An RNA replisome has been proposed as a putative ancestor of the ribosome.
Origin: Gr. Soma = body
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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