polymerase
polymerase
Definition
poly·mer·ase (päl′ə mər āz′, -ās′)
noun
any of various enzymes that promote polymerization, esp. of nucleic acids
polymerase
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- inhibit: The triphosphate form inhibits viral DNA polymerase and prevents synthesis of viral DNA, stopping viral replication.
Adjective modifier
- viral: Two non-structural proteins, L and NS, are associated with the nucleocapsid and act in concert as the viral polymerase.
- core: Global shifts in transcription pattern due to binding of alternative sigma factors to the core polymerase.
Modifies a noun
- reaction: Figure 5 Thermal cycling machine used for carrying out the polymerase chain reaction.
- chain: Figure 5 Thermal cycling machine used for carrying out the polymerase chain reaction.
- amplification: Detection and typing of maize streak virus and other distantly related geminiviruses of grasses by polymerase chain reaction amplification of a conserved viral sequence.
- enzyme: This is the optimum temperature for the DNA polymerase enzyme.
- gene: Polymerase Sequence Comparisons The database can be searched by entering a norovirus polymerase gene sequence.
- complex: DNA polymerase complexes attached to the DNA strands are responsible for replicating the genetic information.
Noun used with modifier
- transcriptase: Expression levels for receptors and ligands were assessed by semiquantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction analysis.
- DNA: Curiously, a gene, DNA polymerase V, activates in times of stress.
- transcription: The production of specific cytokines was measured using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and the result noted as either presence or absence of message.
- enzyme: The double helix of the DNA ' unzips ' , and the enzyme DNA polymerase makes a copy using the separated strands as templates.
- virus: Differential activation of the influenza virus polymerase via template RNA binding.
- reverse: We will assess these transcripts using quantitative real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction ( TaqMan Q-PCR ).
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