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R Muller

Publications and source records attributed to R Muller.

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PubMed1972

Deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase activities in normal and leukovirus-infected chicken embryo cells.

Chicken embryo cells normally contain, in addition to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-dependent DNA (D-DNA) polymerases, a novel "R-DNA-polymerase" which specifically copies polyriboadenylic acid strands. This R-DNA polymerase cannot copy natural ribonucleic acid or polyribocytidylic acid strands to a significant extent. Infection of cells with the leukovirus RAV-2 leads to the intracellular formation of large amounts of the viral RNA-dependent DNA polymerase whose properties differ from the cell R-DNA polymerase. Chicken cells transformed by a Rous sarcoma virus mutant which produce noninfectious alpha-type Rous sarcoma virus (f), a leukovirus known to be deficient in the viral RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, do not contain detectable viral RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, whereas the cellular R-DNA polymerase is found in normal amounts. There seems to be no relationship between the cellular R-DNA polymerase and the RNA-dependent DNA polymerase of the avian leukoviruses.

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PubMed1972

Studies on vaccinia virus-directed deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase.

A vaccinia-directed deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) polymerase has been partially purified from the cytoplasmic fractions of virus-infected HeLa cells. The utilization of natural and synthetic templates by this enzyme resembles that of the host cell DNA-dependent DNA polymerases. The vaccinia DNA polymerase cannot copy ribopolymers or ribonucleic acid but is very effective with an "activated" DNA as template. An exonuclease preferring single-stranded DNA as substrate is found in the most highly purified preparations of the enzyme. The molecular weight of the vaccinia DNA polymerase seems to be about 110,000. The viral DNA polymerase is also found to be associated with purified, infected cell nuclei, and this association may be due, at least in part, to nonspecific adsorption of the vaccinia DNA polymerase by nuclei.

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