Main description:

Viral Replication Enzymes and their Inhibitors, Part B, Volume 50 in The Enzymes series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics surrounding enzymes.

Contents:

Preface

Craig E. Cameron, Jamie J. Arnold and Laurie S. Kaguni

1. Structure and function of the poxvirus transcription machinery

Utz Fischer, Julia Bartuli and Clemens Grimm

2. Structure and function of negative-strand RNA virus polymerase complexes

Jesse D. Pyle, Sean P. J. Whelan and Louis-Marie Bloyet

3. DNA polymerases of herpesviruses and their inhibitors

Jocelyne Piret and Guy Boivi

4. Herpesvirus DNA polymerase: Structures, functions, and mechanisms

Donald M. Coen, Jessica L. Lawler and Jonathan Abraham

5. Retroviral reverse transcriptase: Structure, function and inhibition

Nicolas Sluis-Cremer

6. The hepatitis B virus polymerase

Daniel N. Clark, Razia Tajwar, Jianming Hu and John E. Tavis

7. Retroviral RNase H: Structure, mechanism, and inhibition

Tatiana V. Ilina, Teresa Brosenitsch, Nicolas Sluis-Cremer and Rieko Ishima

8. Retroviral integrase: Structure, mechanism, and inhibition

Dario Oliveira Passos, Min Li, Robert Craigie and Dmitry Lyumkis

9. Viral proteases: Structure, mechanism and inhibition

Jacqueto Zephyr, Nese Kurt Yilmaz and Celia A. Schiffer

10. RNA helicases required for viral propagation in humans

John C. Marecki, Binyam Belachew, Jun Gao and Kevin D. Raney

11. Viral genome packaging machines: Structure and enzymology

Carlos E. Catalano and Marc C. Morais