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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 2008;320:137–156. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-75157-1_7

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Pentavalent phosphorane transition state. During the nucleotidyl transfer reaction, two proton transfer reactions must occur. The proton from the 3′-OH nucleophile must be removed; a proton must be donated to the pyrophosphate leaving group. To date there is no information on these steps of the nucleotidyl transfer reaction