scholarly journals DNA Polymerase e - More Than a Polymerase

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 87-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Pospiech ◽  
Juhani E. Syväoja
Keyword(s):  
Dna Synthesis ◽  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Nuclear Dna ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Dna Polymerases ◽  
Eukaryotic Cell ◽  
Regulatory Subunits ◽  
Base Excision ◽  
Carboxy Terminal ◽  
Dna Primers

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the structure and function of DNA polymerase e. Together with DNA polymerases a and d, this enzyme replicates the nuclear DNA in the eukaryotic cell. During this process, DNA polymerase a lays down RNA-DNA primers that are utilized by DNA polymerases d and e for the bulk DNA synthesis. Attempts have been made to assign these two enzymes specifically to the synthesis of the leading and the lagging strand. Alternatively, the two DNA polymerases may be needed to replicate distinct regions depending on chromatin structure. Surprisingly, the essential function of DNA polymerase e does not depend on its catalytic activity, but resides in the nonenzymatic carboxy-terminal domain. This domain not only mediates the interaction of the catalytic subunit with the three smaller regulatory subunits, but also links the replication machinery to the S phase checkpoint. In addition to its role in DNA replication, DNA polymerase e fulfils roles in the DNA synthesis step of nucleotide excision and base excision repair, and has been implicated in recombinational processes in the cell.

scholarly journals DNA Polymerase β and Flap Endonuclease 1 Enzymatic Specificities Sustain DNA Synthesis for Long Patch Base Excision Repair

2004 ◽  
Vol 280 (5) ◽  
pp. 3665-3674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Liu ◽  
William A. Beard ◽  
David D. Shock ◽  
Rajendra Prasad ◽  
Esther W. Hou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Synthesis ◽  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Dna Polymerase Β ◽  
Flap Endonuclease 1 ◽  
Base Excision

scholarly journals Telomere Repeat Binding Factor 2 Interacts with Base Excision Repair Proteins and Stimulates DNA Synthesis by DNA Polymerase β

2006 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meltem Muftuoglu ◽  
Heng Kuan Wong ◽  
Syed Z. Imam ◽  
David M. Wilson ◽  
Vilhelm A. Bohr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Synthesis ◽  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Dna Polymerase Β ◽  
Telomere Repeat ◽  
Binding Factor ◽  
Base Excision

scholarly journals DNA polymerase β nucleotide-stabilized template misalignment fidelity depends on local sequence context

2019 ◽  
Vol 295 (2) ◽  
pp. 529-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Howard ◽  
Nisha A. Cavanaugh ◽  
Vinod K. Batra ◽  
David D. Shock ◽  
William A. Beard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Synthesis ◽  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Base Substitution ◽  
Dna Polymerase Β ◽  
Sequence Context ◽  
Dna Binding Domains ◽  
Binding Domains ◽  
Local Sequence ◽  
Base Excision

DNA polymerase β has two DNA-binding domains that interact with the opposite sides of short DNA gaps. These domains contribute two activities that modify the 5′ and 3′ margins of gapped DNA during base excision repair. DNA gaps greater than 1 nucleotide (nt) pose an architectural and logistical problem for the two domains to interact with their respective DNA termini. Here, crystallographic and kinetic analyses of 2-nt gap-filling DNA synthesis revealed that the fidelity of DNA synthesis depends on local sequence context. This was due to template dynamics that altered which of the two template nucleotides in the gap served as the coding nucleotide. We observed that, when a purine nucleotide was in the first coding position, DNA synthesis fidelity was similar to that observed with a 1-nt gap. However, when the initial templating nucleotide was a pyrimidine, fidelity was decreased. If the first templating nucleotide was a cytidine, there was a significantly higher probability that the downstream template nucleotide coded for the incoming nucleotide. This dNTP-stabilized misalignment reduced base substitution and frameshift deletion fidelities. A crystal structure of a binary DNA product complex revealed that the cytidine in the first templating site was in an extrahelical position, permitting the downstream template nucleotide to occupy the coding position. These results indicate that DNA polymerase β can induce a strain in the DNA that modulates the position of the coding nucleotide and thereby impacts the identity of the incoming nucleotide. Our findings demonstrate that “correct” DNA synthesis can result in errors when template dynamics induce coding ambiguity.

PrimPol (Primase/Polymerase), replicating enzyme – A mini review

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
Muhammad Amir ◽  
Sabeera Afzal ◽  
Alia Ishaq
Keyword(s):  
Dna Replication ◽  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Genetic Information ◽  
Nuclear Dna ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Dna Polymerases ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Mitochondrial Dna Replication ◽  
Dna Template ◽  
Preliminary Phase

Polymerases were revealed first in 1970s. Most important to the modest perception the enzyme responsible for nuclear DNA replication that was pol , for DNA repair pol and for mitochondrial DNA replication pol  DNA construction and renovation done by DNA polymerases, so directing both the constancy and discrepancy of genetic information. Replication of genome initiate with DNA template-dependent fusion of small primers of RNA. This preliminary phase in replication of DNA demarcated as de novo primer synthesis which is catalyzed by specified polymerases known as primases. Sixteen diverse DNA-synthesizing enzymes about human perspective are devoted to replication, reparation, mutilation lenience, and inconsistency of nuclear DNA. But in dissimilarity, merely one DNA polymerase has been called in mitochondria. It has been suggest that PrimPol is extremely acting the roles by re-priming DNA replication in mitochondria to permit an effective and appropriate way replication to be accomplished. Investigations from a numeral of test site have significantly amplified our appreciative of the role, recruitment and regulation of the enzyme during DNA replication. Though, we are simply just start to increase in value the versatile roles that play PrimPol in eukaryote.

scholarly journals The human checkpoint sensor and alternative DNA clamp Rad9–Rad1–Hus1 modulates the activity of DNA ligase I, a component of the long-patch base excision repair machinery

2005 ◽  
Vol 389 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina SMIRNOVA ◽  
Magali TOUEILLE ◽  
Enni MARKKANEN ◽  
Ulrich HÜBSCHER
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Dna Ligase ◽  
Dna Polymerase Β ◽  
Flap Endonuclease 1 ◽  
Important Target ◽  
Dna Ligase I ◽  
Base Excision

The human checkpoint sensor and alternative clamp Rad9–Rad1–Hus1 can interact with and specifically stimulate DNA ligase I. The very recently described interactions of Rad9–Rad1–Hus1 with MutY DNA glycosylase, DNA polymerase β and Flap endonuclease 1 now complete our view that the long-patch base excision machinery is an important target of the Rad9–Rad1–Hus1 complex, thus enhancing the quality control of DNA.

scholarly journals DNA polymerase β outperforms DNA polymerase γ in key mitochondrial base excision repair activities

DNA Repair ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 103050
Author(s):  
Beverly A. Baptiste ◽  
Stephanie L. Baringer ◽  
Tomasz Kulikowicz ◽  
Joshua A. Sommers ◽  
Deborah L. Croteau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Dna Polymerase Β ◽  
Base Excision ◽  
Dna Polymerase Γ

scholarly journals Involvement of deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase β in nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis

1978 ◽  
Vol 173 (1) ◽  
pp. 309-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
T R Butt ◽  
W M Wood ◽  
E L McKay ◽  
R L P Adams
Keyword(s):  
Dna Synthesis ◽  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Deoxyribonucleic Acid ◽  
Nuclear Dna ◽  
Dna Polymerase Beta ◽  
Cell Nuclei ◽  
High Molecular Weight Dna ◽  
Dna Polymerase Alpha ◽  
Polymerase Beta

The effects on DNA synthesis in vitro in mouse L929-cell nuclei of differential extraction of DNA polymerases alpha and beta were studied. Removal of all measurable DNA polymerase alpha and 20% of DNA polymerase beta leads to a 40% fall in the replicative DNA synthesis. Removal of 70% of DNA polymerase beta inhibits replicative synthesis by 80%. In all cases the nuclear DNA synthesis is sensitive to N-ethylmaleimide and aCTP (arabinosylcytosine triphosphate), though less so than DNA polymerase alpha. Addition of deoxyribonuclease I to the nuclear incubation leads to synthesis of high-molecular-weight DNA in a repair reaction. This occurs equally in nuclei from non-growing or S-phase cells. The former nuclei lack DNA polymerase alpha and the reaction reflects the sensitivity of DNA polymerase beta to inhibiton by N-ethylmaleimide and aCTP.

scholarly journals Base excision repair and design of small molecule inhibitors of human DNA polymerase β

2010 ◽  
Vol 67 (21) ◽  
pp. 3633-3647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel H. Wilson ◽  
William A. Beard ◽  
David D. Shock ◽  
Vinod K. Batra ◽  
Nisha A. Cavanaugh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Small Molecule Inhibitors ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Dna Polymerase Β ◽  
Human Dna ◽  
Base Excision
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