Evolutionary connection between the catalytic subunits of DNA-dependent RNA polymerases and eukaryotic RNA-dependent RNA polymerases and the origin of RNA polymerases.

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Published in BMC Struct Biol on January 28, 2003

Authors

Lakshminarayan M Iyer1, Eugene V Koonin, L Aravind

Author Affiliations

1: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. lakshmin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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