Interactions of 1-[(S)-3-Hydroxy-2-(phosphonomethoxy)propyl]cytosine (Cidofovir) Diphosphate with DNA Polymerases α, δ and ε*

2001 ◽  
Vol 66 (11) ◽  
pp. 1698-1706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Birkuš ◽  
Ivan Votruba ◽  
Miroslav Otmar ◽  
Antonín Holý

The inhibitory and/or substrate activity of 1-[(S)-3-hydroxy-2-(phosphonomethoxy)propyl]cytosine [(S)-HPMPC, cidofovir, Vistide™] diphosphate towards eukaryotic DNA polymerases α, δ and ε* was examined. Cidofovir diphosphate is a weak competitive inhibitor of the above enzymes, approximately 3 to 7 times weaker than its adenine analogue (S)-HPMPApp. The enzymes also catalyze incorporation of (S)-HPMPC into DNA; after insertion of one (S)-HPMPC residue into DNA, another dNMP residue may incorporate. DNA polymerase δ and ε* can successively accommodate in the growing chain two (S)-HPMPC residues at the maximum, whereas pol α up to three residues.

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 754-754
Author(s):  
Likui Zhang ◽  
Yanchao Huang ◽  
Xinyuan Zhu ◽  
Yuxiao Wang ◽  
Haoqiang Shi ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 754-754
Author(s):  
Likui Zhang ◽  
Yanchao Huang ◽  
Xinyuan Zhu ◽  
Yuxiao Wang ◽  
Haoqiang Shi ◽  
...  

PLoS Genetics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. e1007236
Author(s):  
Carine Tellier-Lebegue ◽  
Eléa Dizet ◽  
Emilie Ma ◽  
Xavier Veaute ◽  
Eric Coïc ◽  
...  

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Aduma ◽  
S. V. Gupta ◽  
A. L. Stuart

5-Methoxymethyl-2′-deoxyuridine (MMdUrd) is a selective anti-herpes agent that is dependent upon initial phosphorylation by Herpes simplex virus-induced deoxythymidine kinase. In order to determine its mechanism of action, MMdUrd was converted to the 5′-triphosphate (MMdUTP) and the nature of interaction of MMdUTP and dTTP with DNA polymerase of E. coli, HSV-1, and human α was investigated. The order of utilization of deoxyuridine analogues by bacterial and HSV-1 DNA polymerases for DNA synthesis was: dTTP > MMdUTP. In contrast, 5-methoxymethyl-2′-deoxycytidine-5′-triphosphate (MMdCTP) was a better substrate for HSV DNA polymerase compared to dCTP. MMdUTP is a competitive inhibitor of HSV-1 DNA polymerase with respect to dTTP incorporation (Ki = 2.9 × 10−6M). The IC50 values of MMdUTP for both HSV and human αDNA polymerases were 4.5 × 10 −6M. These data suggest that the selective activity of MMdUrd is due to its preferential phosphorylation by viral thymidine kinase and not at the DNA polymerase level. These results may also account for the difference in anti-HSV activity between MMdUrd and its deoxycytidine analogue.


2003 ◽  
Vol 370 (1) ◽  
pp. 299-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiyuki MIZUSHINA ◽  
Xianai XU ◽  
Hitomi ASAHARA ◽  
Ryo TAKEUCHI ◽  
Masahiko OSHIGE ◽  
...  

Sulphoquinovosyl diacylglycerol (SQDG) was reported as a selective inhibitor of eukaryotic DNA polymerases α and β [Hanashima, Mizushina, Ohta, Yamazaki, Sugawara and Sakaguchi (2000) Jpn. J. Cancer Res. 91, 1073—1083] and an immunosuppressive agent [Matsumoto, Sahara, Fujita, Shimozawa, Takenouchi, Torigoe, Hanashima, Yamazaki, Takahashi, Sugawara et al. (2002) Transplantation 74, 261—267]. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the biochemical properties of the inhibition more precisely. As expected, SQDG could inhibit the activities of mammalian DNA polymerases such as α, Δ, η and κ in vitro in the range of 2—5μM, and β and λ in vitro in the range of 20—45μM. However, SQDG could inhibit only mammalian DNA polymerases ∊ (pol ∊) activity at less than 0.04μM. SQDG bound more tightly to mammalian pol ∊ than the other mammalian polymerases tested. Moreover, SQDG could inhibit the activities of all the polymerases from animals such as fish and insect, but not of the polymerases from plant and prokaryotes. SQDG should, therefore, be called a mammalian pol ∊-specific inhibitor or animal polymerase-specific inhibitor. To our knowledge, this represents the first report about an inhibitor specific to mammalian pol ∊.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengshi Wu ◽  
Hua Wei ◽  
Huang Tan ◽  
Shaojun Pan ◽  
Qi Liu ◽  
...  

AbstractGeminiviruses are causal agents of devastating diseases in crops. Geminiviruses have circular single-stranded (ss) DNA genomes that are replicated in the nucleus of the infected plant cell through double-stranded (ds) DNA intermediates by the plant DNA replication machinery. Which host DNA polymerase mediates geminiviral multiplication, however, has so far remained elusive. Here, we show that subunits of the nuclear replicative DNA polymerases α and δ physically interact with the geminivirus-encoded replication enhancer protein, C3, and that these polymerases are required for viral replication. Our results suggest that, while DNA polymerase α is essential to generate the viral dsDNA intermediate, DNA polymerase δ mediates the synthesis of new copies of the geminiviral ssDNA genome, and that the virus-encoded C3 may act selectively, recruiting DNA polymerase δ over ε to favour productive replication.


2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1373-1382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Maloisel ◽  
Francis Fabre ◽  
Serge Gangloff

ABSTRACT DNA polymerases play a central role during homologous recombination (HR), but the identity of the enzyme(s) implicated remains elusive. The pol3-ct allele of the gene encoding the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase δ (Polδ) has highlighted a role for this polymerase in meiotic HR. We now address the ubiquitous role of Polδ during HR in somatic cells. We find that pol3-ct affects gene conversion tract length during mitotic recombination whether the event is initiated by single-strand gaps following UV irradiation or by site-specific double-strand breaks. We show that the pol3-ct effects on gene conversion are completely independent of mismatch repair, indicating that shorter gene conversion tracts in pol3-ct correspond to shorter extensions of primed DNA synthesis. Interestingly, we find that shorter repair tracts do not favor synthesis-dependent strand annealing at the expense of double-strand-break repair. Finally, we show that the DNA polymerases that have been previously suspected to mediate HR repair synthesis (Polε and Polη) do not affect gene conversion during induced HR, including in the pol3-ct background. Our results argue strongly for the preferential recruitment of Polδ during HR.


2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (11) ◽  
pp. 6035-6041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea R. Bulock ◽  
Xuanxuan Xing ◽  
Polina V. Shcherbakova

During eukaryotic replication, DNA polymerases ε (Polε) and δ (Polδ) synthesize the leading and lagging strands, respectively. In a long-known contradiction to this model, defects in the fidelity of Polε have a much weaker impact on mutagenesis than analogous Polδ defects. It has been previously proposed that Polδ contributes more to mutation avoidance because it proofreads mismatches created by Polε in addition to its own errors. However, direct evidence for this model was missing. We show that, in yeast, the mutation rate increases synergistically when a Polε nucleotide selectivity defect is combined with a Polδ proofreading defect, demonstrating extrinsic proofreading of Polε errors by Polδ. In contrast, combining Polδ nucleotide selectivity and Polε proofreading defects produces no synergy, indicating that Polε cannot correct errors made by Polδ. We further show that Polδ can remove errors made by exonuclease-deficient Polε in vitro. These findings illustrate the complexity of the one-strand–one-polymerase model where synthesis appears to be largely divided, but Polδ proofreading operates on both strands.


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