Divergent Roles for the Two PolI-Like Organelle DNA
Polymerases of Arabidopsis1[W][OA]
Jean-Sebastien Parent2,3, Etienne Lepage2, and Normand Brisson*
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Department of Biochemistry, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3J7
DNA polymerases play a central role in the process of DNA replication. Yet, the proteins in charge of the replication of plant
organelle DNA have not been unambiguously identified. There are however many indications that a family of proteins
homologous to bacterial DNA polymerase