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Structure and operating principles of a monkeypox virus replisome


During replisome assembly of monkeypox virus, the hexameric helicase–primase E5 undergoes large-scale conformational changes that allow two of its primase domains to interact with the polymerase F8 thumb domain and A22 subunit, activating the helicase–primase.

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