Talk:Polymerase
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[edit] Template/Product preferences
¨ The nucleic acid polymerisation reaction is catalysed by a wide variety of enzymes that can be classified into two major mechanistic categories: template dependent (that need an existing polymer to use as a basis for catalysis of a new strand) and template independent (that can polymerase nucleic acids without the need for a pre-existing strand) nucleotidyl transferases.
The group of template dependent polymerases refers to enzymes that use a nucleic acid template to produce a new RNA or DNA molecule, and are classified according to template/product preferences:
(i) DNA-dependent DNA polymerases (DdDPs) (ii) DNA-dependent RNA polymerases (DdRPs) (iii) RNA-dependent DNA polymerases (RdDPs), also known as reverse transcriptases (RT) (iv) RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs)¨
Metisalfa 16:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC) I was thinking of adding information regarding the different requirements for nucleic acid template used and products produced by different polymerases (or nucleotydil transferases), along the lines of the previous text. And then also create an entry for each category, of course.
