DnaG
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DnaG is a bacterial primase
Primase
DNA primase is an enzyme involved in the replication of DNA.Primase catalyzes the synthesis of a short RNA segment called a primer complementary to a ssDNA template...

 which synthesizes short RNA oligonucleotides during DNA replication. These RNA oligonucleotides serve as primers for DNA synthesis by bacterial DNA polymerase Pol III. On one of the two parental strands, called the lagging strand, the primase makes a primer every few kilobases. These primers serve a substrates for synthesis of Okazaki fragments.

DnaG associates with bacterial replicative helicase DnaB to perform its primase activity. About three DnaG primase proteins associate with each DnaB helicase.
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