Structural Basis for Substrate Promiscuity of dCK
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Structural basis for substrate promiscuity of dCK.
Deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) is an essential nucleoside kinase critical for the production of nucleotide precursors for DNA synthesis. This enzyme catalyzes the initial conversion of the nucleosides deoxyadenosine (dA), deoxyguanosine (dG), and deoxycytidine (dC) into their monophosphate forms, with subsequent phosphorylation to the triphosphate forms performed by additional enzymes. Several nucl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Molecular Biology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0022-2836
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.02.061