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Timinskas K, Venclovas Č. New insights into the structures and interactions of bacterial Y-family DNA polymerases. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:4393-4405. [PMID: 30916324 PMCID: PMC6511836 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2018] [Revised: 03/09/2019] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Bacterial Y-family DNA polymerases are usually classified into DinB (Pol IV), UmuC (the catalytic subunit of Pol V) and ImuB, a catalytically dead essential component of the ImuA-ImuB-DnaE2 mutasome. However, the true diversity of Y-family polymerases is unknown. Furthermore, for most of them the structures are unavailable and interactions are poorly characterized. To gain a better understanding of bacterial Y-family DNA polymerases, we performed a detailed computational study. It revealed substantial diversity, far exceeding traditional classification. We found that a large number of subfamilies feature a C-terminal extension next to the common Y-family region. Unexpectedly, in most C-terminal extensions we identified a region homologous to the N-terminal oligomerization motif of RecA. This finding implies a universal mode of interaction between Y-family members and RecA (or ImuA), in the case of Pol V strongly supported by experimental data. In gram-positive bacteria, we identified a putative Pol V counterpart composed of a Y-family polymerase, a YolD homolog and RecA. We also found ImuA-ImuB-DnaE2 variants lacking ImuA, but retaining active or inactive Y-family polymerase, a standalone ImuB C-terminal domain and/or DnaE2. In summary, our analyses revealed that, despite considerable diversity, bacterial Y-family polymerases share previously unanticipated similarities in their structural domains/motifs and interactions.
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- Kęstutis Timinskas
- Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio 7, Vilnius LT-10257, Lithuania
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio 7, Vilnius LT-10257, Lithuania
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Food and Drug Administration, HHS. Medical Devices; Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Toxicology Devices; Classification of the Reagents for Molecular Diagnostic Instrument Test Systems. Final order. Fed Regist 2017; 82:61162-3. [PMID: 29319937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is classifying the reagents for molecular diagnostic instrument test systems into class I (general controls). We are taking this action because we have determined that classifying the device into class I (general controls) will provide a reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness of the device. We believe this action will also enhance patients' access to beneficial innovative devices, in part by reducing regulatory burdens.
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Ossiboff RJ, Raphael BL, Ammazzalorso AD, Seimon TA, Newton AL, Chang TY, Zarate B, Whitlock AL, McAloose D. Three novel herpesviruses of endangered Clemmys and Glyptemys turtles. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0122901. [PMID: 25875510 PMCID: PMC4398433 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2014] [Accepted: 02/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The rich diversity of the world’s reptiles is at risk due to significant population declines of broad taxonomic and geographic scope. Significant factors attributed to these declines include habitat loss, pollution, unsustainable collection and infectious disease. To investigate the presence and significance of a potential pathogen on populations of critically endangered bog turtles (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) as well sympatric endangered wood (G. insculpta) and endangered spotted (Clemmys guttata) turtles in the northeastern United States, choanal and cloacal swabs collected from 230 turtles from 19 sites in 5 states were screened for herpesvirus by polymerase chain reaction. We found a high incidence of herpesvirus infection in bog turtles (51.5%; 105/204) and smaller numbers of positive wood (5) and spotted (1) turtles. Sequence and phylogenetic analysis revealed three previously uncharacterized alphaherpesviruses. Glyptemys herpesvirus 1 was the predominant herpesvirus detected and was found exclusively in bog turtles in all states sampled. Glyptemys herpesvirus 2 was found only in wood turtles. Emydid herpesvirus 2 was found in a small number of bog turtles and a single spotted turtle from one state. Based on these findings, Glyptemys herpesvirus 1 appears to be a common infection in the study population, whereas Glyptemys herpesvirus 2 and Emydid herpesvirus 2 were not as frequently detected. Emydid herpesvirus 2 was the only virus detected in more than one species. Herpesviruses are most often associated with subclinical or mild infections in their natural hosts, and no sampled turtles showed overt signs of disease at sampling. However, infection of host-adapted viruses in closely related species can result in significant disease. The pathogenic potential of these viruses, particularly Emydid herpesvirus 2, in sympatric chelonians warrants additional study in order to better understand the relationship of these viruses with their endangered hosts.
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- Robert J. Ossiboff
- Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Fordham University, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, Endangered and Nongame Species Program, Clinton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hadley, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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The large number of complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences available for metazoan species makes it a good system for studying genome diversity, although little is known about the mechanisms that promote and/or are correlated with the evolution of this organellar genome. By investigating the molecular evolutionary history of the catalytic and accessory subunits of the mtDNA polymerase, pol γ, we sought to develop mechanistic insight into its function that might impact genome structure by exploring the relationships between DNA replication and animal mitochondrial genome diversity. We identified three evolutionary patterns among metazoan pol γs. First, a trend toward stabilization of both sequence and structure occurred in vertebrates, with both subunits evolving distinctly from those of other animal groups, and acquiring at least four novel structural elements, the most important of which is the HLH-3β (helix-loop-helix, 3 β-sheets) domain that allows the accessory subunit to homodimerize. Second, both subunits of arthropods and tunicates have become shorter and evolved approximately twice as rapidly as their vertebrate homologs. And third, nematodes have lost the gene for the accessory subunit, which was accompanied by the loss of its interacting domain in the catalytic subunit of pol γ, and they show the highest rate of molecular evolution among all animal taxa. These findings correlate well with the mtDNA genomic features of each group described above, and with their modes of DNA replication, although a substantive amount of biochemical work is needed to draw conclusive links regarding the latter. Describing the parallels between evolution of pol γ and metazoan mtDNA architecture may also help in understanding the processes that lead to mitochondrial dysfunction and to human disease-related phenotypes.
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- Marcos T Oliveira
- Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology, University of Tampere, Finland Departamento de Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho," Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil
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- Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology, University of Tampere, Finland
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- Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology, University of Tampere, Finland Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Center for Mitochondrial Science and Medicine, Michigan State University
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Haapa-Paananen S, Wahlberg N, Savilahti H. Phylogenetic analysis of Maverick/Polinton giant transposons across organisms. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2014; 78:271-4. [PMID: 24882428 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2014] [Revised: 05/09/2014] [Accepted: 05/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Polintons are a recently discovered group of large transposable elements (<40Kb in size) encoding up to 10 different proteins. The increasing number of genome sequencing projects has led to the discovery of these elements in genomes of protists, fungi, and animals, but not in plants. The RepBase database of eukaryotic repetitive elements currently contains consensus sequences and information of 70 Polinton elements from 28 organisms. Previous phylogenetic analyses have shown the relationship of Polintons to linear plasmids, bacteriophages, and retroviruses. However, a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of all known Polintons has been lacking. We retrieved the Polinton consensus sequences from the most recent version of RepBase, and compiled amino acid sequences for the two most common Polinton-specific genes, the DNA polymerase-B and retroviral-like integrase. Open reading frame predictions and homology comparisons revealed partial or full sequences for 54 polymerases and 55 Polinton integrases. Multiple sequence alignments portrayed conservation in several functional motifs of these proteins. Phylogenetic analyses based on Bayesian inference using single- and combined-gene datasets revealed seven distinct lineages of Polintons that broadly follow the tree of life. Two of the seven lineages are found within the same species, indicating that ancient divergences have been retained to this day.
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- Saija Haapa-Paananen
- Division of Genetics and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Finland.
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- Division of Genetics and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Finland
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- Division of Genetics and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Finland
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Schenten V, Guéguinou N, Baatout S, Frippiat JP. Modulation of Pleurodeles waltl DNA polymerase mu expression by extreme conditions encountered during spaceflight. PLoS One 2013; 8:e69647. [PMID: 23936065 PMCID: PMC3729694 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2013] [Accepted: 06/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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DNA polymerase µ is involved in DNA repair, V(D)J recombination and likely somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes. Our previous studies demonstrated that spaceflight conditions affect immunoglobulin gene expression and somatic hypermutation frequency. Consequently, we questioned whether Polμ expression could also be affected. To address this question, we characterized Polμ of the Iberian ribbed newt Pleurodeles waltl and exposed embryos of that species to spaceflight conditions or to environmental modifications corresponding to those encountered in the International Space Station. We noted a robust expression of Polμ mRNA during early ontogenesis and in the testis, suggesting that Polμ is involved in genomic stability. Full-length Polμ transcripts are 8–9 times more abundant in P. waltl than in humans and mice, thereby providing an explanation for the somatic hypermutation predilection of G and C bases in amphibians. Polμ transcription decreases after 10 days of development in space and radiation seem primarily involved in this down-regulation. However, space radiation, alone or in combination with a perturbation of the circadian rhythm, did not affect Polμ protein levels and did not induce protein oxidation, showing the limited impact of radiation encountered during a 10-day stay in the International Space Station.
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- Véronique Schenten
- Stress Immunity Pathogens Laboratory, EA7300, Lorraine University, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Stress Immunity Pathogens Laboratory, EA7300, Lorraine University, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Radiobiology Unit, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Stress Immunity Pathogens Laboratory, EA7300, Lorraine University, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- * E-mail:
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Gong Y, Yang J. [The biological effect of Y-family DNA polymerases on the translesion synthesis]. Sheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi 2013; 30:213-216. [PMID: 23488167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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A common DNA polymerase can replicate DNA which functions normally. However, if DNA suffers damage, the genome can not be replicated by a common DNA polymerase because DNA lesions will block the replication apparatus. Another kind of DNA polymerases in organism, Y-family DNA polymerases which is also called translesion synthesis (TLS) polymerases, can deal with this problem. Their main functions are bypassing the lesions in DNA, replicating the genome and saving the dying cells. This thesis presents a historical review of the literature pertinent to the structure, functions and roles of Y-family DNA polymerases.
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- Yi Gong
- Student Brigade, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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Guo C, Kosarek-Stancel JN, Tang TS, Friedberg EC. Y-family DNA polymerases in mammalian cells. Cell Mol Life Sci 2009; 66:2363-81. [PMID: 19367366 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-009-0024-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2009] [Revised: 03/05/2009] [Accepted: 03/23/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Eukaryotic genomes are replicated with high fidelity to assure the faithful transmission of genetic information from one generation to the next. The accuracy of replication relies heavily on the ability of replicative DNA polymerases to efficiently select correct nucleotides for the polymerization reaction and, using their intrinsic exonuclease activities, to excise mistakenly incorporated nucleotides. Cells also possess a variety of specialized DNA polymerases that, by a process called translesion DNA synthesis (TLS), help overcome replication blocks when unrepaired DNA lesions stall the replication machinery. This review considers the properties of the Y-family (a subset of specialized DNA polymerases) and their roles in modulating spontaneous and genotoxic-induced mutations in mammals. We also review recent insights into the molecular mechanisms that regulate PCNA monoubiquitination and DNA polymerase switching during TLS and discuss the potential of using Y-family DNA polymerases as novel targets for cancer prevention and therapy.
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- Caixia Guo
- Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9072, USA.
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Uchiyama Y, Takeuchi R, Kodera H, Sakaguchi K. Distribution and roles of X-family DNA polymerases in eukaryotes. Biochimie 2008; 91:165-70. [PMID: 18706967 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2008.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2008] [Accepted: 07/15/2008] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Four types of DNA polymerase (Pol beta, Pol lambda, Pol mu and TdT) have been identified in eukaryotes as members of the polymerase X-family. Only vertebrates have all four types of enzyme. Plants and fungi have one or two X-family polymerases, while protostomes, such as fruit flies and nematodes, do not appear to have any. It is possible that the well-known metabolic pathways in which these enzymes are involved are restricted to the vertebrate world. The distribution of the DNA polymerases involved in DNA repair across the various biological kingdoms differs from that of the DNA polymerases involved in chromosomal DNA replication. In this review, we focus on the interesting pattern of distribution of the X-family enzymes across biological kingdoms and speculate on their roles.
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- Yukinobu Uchiyama
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan
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Lada AG, Iyer LM, Rogozin IB, Aravind L, Pavlov II. [Vertebrate immunity: mutator proteins and their evolution]. Genetika 2007; 43:1311-1327. [PMID: 18069336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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M.E. Lobashev has brilliantly postulated in 1947 that error-prone repair contribute to mutations in cells. This was shown to be true once the mechanisms of UV mutagenesis in Escherichia coli were deciphered. Induced mutations are generated during error-prone SOS DNA repair with the involvement of inaccurate DNA polymerases belonging to the Y family. Currently, several distinct mutator enzymes participating in spontaneous and induced mutagenesis have been identified. Upon induction of these proteins, mutation rates increase by several orders of magnitude. These proteins regulate the mutation rates in evolution and in ontogeny during immune response. In jawed vertebrates, somatic hypermutagenesis occurs in the variable regions of immunoglobulin genes, leading to affinity maturation of antibodies. The process is initiated by cytidine deamination in DNA to uracil by AID (Activation-Induced Deaminase). Further repair of uracil-containing DNA through proteins that include the Y family DNA polymerases causes mutations, induce gene conversion, and class switch recombination. In jawless vertebrates, the variable lymphocyte receptors (VLR) serve as the primary molecules for adaptive immunity. Generation of mature VLRs most likely depends on agnathan AID-like deaminases. AID and its orthologs in lamprey (PmCDA1 and PMCDA2) belong to the AID/APOBEC family of RNA/DNA editing cytidine deaminases. This family includes enzymes with different functions: APOBEC1 edits RNA, APOBEC3 restricts retroviruses. The functions of APOBEC2 and APOBEC4 have not been yet determined. Here, we report a new member of the AID/APOBEC family, APOBEC5, in the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae. The widespread presence of RNA/DNA editing deaminases suggests that they are an ancient means of generating genetic diversity.
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Kamath-Loeb AS, Lan L, Nakajima S, Yasui A, Loeb LA. Werner syndrome protein interacts functionally with translesion DNA polymerases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:10394-9. [PMID: 17563354 PMCID: PMC1965524 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702513104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2007] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Werner syndrome (WS) is characterized by premature onset of age-associated disorders and predisposition to cancer. The WS protein, WRN, encodes 3' --> 5' DNA helicase and 3' --> 5' DNA exonuclease activities, and is implicated in the maintenance of genomic stability. Translesion (TLS) DNA polymerases (Pols) insert nucleotides opposite replication-blocking DNA lesions and presumably prevent replication fork stalling/collapse. Here, we present in vitro and in vivo data that demonstrate functional interaction between WRN and the TLS Pols, Poleta, Polkappa, and Poliota. In vitro, WRN stimulates the extension activity of TLS Pols on lesion-free and lesion-containing DNA templates, and alleviates pausing at stalling lesions. Stimulation is mediated through an increase in the apparent V(max) of the polymerization reaction. Notably, by accelerating the rate of nucleotide incorporation, WRN increases mutagenesis by Poleta. In vivo, WRN and Poleta colocalize at replication-dependent foci in response to UVC irradiation. The functional interaction between WRN and TLS Pols may promote replication fork progression, at the expense of increased mutagenesis, and obviate the need to resolve stalled/collapsed forks by processes involving chromosomal rearrangements.
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- Ashwini S. Kamath-Loeb
- *Department of Pathology, The Gottstein Memorial Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; and
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Seiryomachi 4-1, Aobaku, Sendai 98-8575, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Seiryomachi 4-1, Aobaku, Sendai 98-8575, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Seiryomachi 4-1, Aobaku, Sendai 98-8575, Japan
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- *Department of Pathology, The Gottstein Memorial Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; and
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Maga G, Villani G, Crespan E, Wimmer U, Ferrari E, Bertocci B, Hübscher U. 8-oxo-guanine bypass by human DNA polymerases in the presence of auxiliary proteins. Nature 2007; 447:606-8. [PMID: 17507928 DOI: 10.1038/nature05843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2006] [Accepted: 03/22/2007] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Specialized DNA polymerases (DNA pols) are required for lesion bypass in human cells. Auxiliary factors have an important, but so far poorly understood, role. Here we analyse the effects of human proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and replication protein A (RP-A) on six different human DNA pols--belonging to the B, Y and X classes--during in vitro bypass of different lesions. The mutagenic lesion 8-oxo-guanine (8-oxo-G) has high miscoding potential. A major and specific effect was found for 8-oxo-G bypass with DNA pols lambda and eta. PCNA and RP-A allowed correct incorporation of dCTP opposite a 8-oxo-G template 1,200-fold more efficiently than the incorrect dATP by DNA pol lambda, and 68-fold by DNA pol eta, respectively. Experiments with DNA-pol-lambda-null cell extracts suggested an important role for DNA pol lambda. On the other hand, DNA pol iota, together with DNA pols alpha, delta and beta, showed a much lower correct bypass efficiency. Our findings show the existence of an accurate mechanism to reduce the deleterious consequences of oxidative damage and, in addition, point to an important role for PCNA and RP-A in determining a functional hierarchy among different DNA pols in lesion bypass.
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- Giovanni Maga
- Institute of Molecular Genetics IGM-CNR, via Abbiategrasso 207, I-27100 Pavia, Italy.
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- Katharina B M Sauter
- Fachbereich Chemie, Universität Konstanz, Universitätsstrasse 10, M 726, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
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DNA polymerase lambda (Pol λ) is one of several DNA polymerases suggested to participate in base excision repair (BER), in repair of broken DNA ends and in translesion synthesis. It has been proposed that the nature of the DNA intermediates partly determines which polymerase is used for a particular repair reaction. To test this hypothesis, here we examine the ability of human Pol λ to extend mismatched primer-termini, either on ‘open’ template-primer substrates, or on its preferred substrate, a 1 nt gapped-DNA molecule having a 5′-phosphate. Interestingly, Pol λ extended mismatches with an average efficiency of ≈10−2 relative to matched base pairs. The match and mismatch extension catalytic efficiencies obtained on gapped molecules were ≈260-fold higher than on template-primer molecules. A crystal structure of Pol λ in complex with a single-nucleotide gap containing a dG·dGMP mismatch at the primer-terminus (2.40 Å) suggests that, at least for certain mispairs, Pol λ is unable to differentiate between matched and mismatched termini during the DNA binding step, thus accounting for the relatively high efficiency of mismatch extension. This property of Pol λ suggests a potential role as a ‘mismatch extender’ during non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), and possibly during translesion synthesis.
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- Angel J. Picher
- Centro de Biología Molecular ‘Severo Ochoa’ (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle ParkNC 27709, USA
- Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle ParkNC 27709, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle ParkNC 27709, USA
- Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle ParkNC 27709, USA
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle ParkNC 27709, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle ParkNC 27709, USA
- Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle ParkNC 27709, USA
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- Centro de Biología Molecular ‘Severo Ochoa’ (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma28049 Madrid, Spain
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +34 91 4978493; Fax: +34 91 4974799;
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Seki M, Gearhart PJ, Wood RD. DNA polymerases and somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes. EMBO Rep 2006; 6:1143-8. [PMID: 16319960 PMCID: PMC1369213 DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2005] [Accepted: 10/17/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin variable genes, which increases antibody diversity, is initiated by the activation-induced cytosine deaminase (AID) protein. The current DNA-deamination model posits that AID deaminates cytosine to uracil in DNA, and that mutations are generated by DNA polymerases during replication or repair of the uracil residue. Mutations could arise as follows: by DNA replicating past the uracil; by removing the uracil with a uracil glycosylase and replicating past the resulting abasic site with a low-fidelity polymerase; or by repairing the uracil and synthesizing a DNA-repair patch downstream using a low-fidelity polymerase. In this review, we summarize the biochemical properties of specialized DNA polymerases in mammalian cells and discuss their participation in the mechanisms of hypermutation. Many recent studies have examined mice deficient in the genes that encode various DNA polymerases, and have shown that DNA polymerase H (POLH) contributes to hypermutation, whereas POLI, POLK and several other enzymes do not have major roles. The low-fidelity enzyme POLQ has been proposed as another candidate polymerase because it can efficiently bypass abasic sites and recent evidence indicates that it might participate in hypermutation.
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- Mineaki Seki
- Suite 2.6, Research Pavilion, Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 5117 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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- Suite 2.6, Research Pavilion, Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 5117 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
- Tel: +1 412 623 7766; Fax: +1 412 623 7761; E-mail:
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Dalmolin CC, da Silva FR, Mello LV, Rigden DJ, Castro MEB. Nucleotide sequence and phylogenetic analyses of the DNA polymerase gene of Anticarsia gemmatalis nucleopolyhedrovirus. Virus Res 2005; 110:99-109. [PMID: 15845260 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2005.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2004] [Revised: 01/25/2005] [Accepted: 01/26/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The DNA polymerase from Anticarsia gemmatalis nucleopolyhedrovirus (AgMNPV) was identified and sequenced, and its amino acid sequence was compared with other viral DNA polymerases to identify conserved regions and to reconstruct a phylogenetic tree. The sequence analysis of the AgMNPV DNA polymerase gene revealed the presence of a 2976 nucleotides open reading frame (ORF) encoding a polypeptide of 991 amino acid residues with a predicted molecular mass of 114.7 kDa. Among the baculovirus DNA polymerase genes identified to date, the AgMNPV DNA polymerase gene shared maximum amino acid sequence identity with the DNA polymerase gene of Choristoneura fumiferana nucleopolyhedrovirus defective strain (CfDEFNPV) (94%). The alignment of 140 virus sequences, 23 of them from baculovirus, showed that, of the 10 conserved regions identified, 5 are exclusive to baculoviruses (R1, R5, R9, R6 and R10), only 2 of them (R6 and R10) previously described as such in the literature. Our analysis, based on their positions in the AgMNPV DNA polymerase model, suggests that R9 and R10 could interact with DNA. Phylogenetic analysis of DNA polymerase sequences places the enzyme from AgMNPV within the cluster containing the polymerases of Group I Nucleopolyhedrovirus and suggests that the AgMNPV DNA polymerase is more closely related to that of CfDEFNPV than to those of other baculoviruses.
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- Caren Cristina Dalmolin
- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Parque Estação Biológica (PqEB), W5 Norte Final, CEP 70770-900 Brasília DF, Brazil
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Translesion synthesis (TLS) across damaged DNA bases is most often carried out by the ubiquitous error-prone DNA polymerases of the Y-family. Bacillus subtilis encodes two Y-polymerases, Pol Y1 and Pol Y2, that mediate TLS resulting in spontaneous and ultraviolet light (UV)-induced mutagenesis respectively. Here we show that TLS is a bipartite dual polymerase process in B. subtilis, involving not only the Y-polymerases but also the A-family polymerase, DNA polymerase I (Pol I). Both the spontaneous and the UV-induced mutagenesis are abolished in Pol I mutants affected solely in the polymerase catalytic site. Physical interactions between Pol I and either of the Pol Y polymerases, as well as formation of a ternary complex between Pol Y1, Pol I and the beta-clamp, were detected by yeast two- and three-hybrid assays, supporting the model of a functional coupling between the A- and Y-family polymerases in TLS. We suggest that the Pol Y carries the synthesis across the lesion, and Pol I takes over to extend the synthesis until the functional replisome resumes replication. This key role of Pol I in TLS uncovers a new function of the A-family DNA polymerases.
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- Stéphane Duigou
- Laboratoire de Génétique Microbienne, Domaine de Vilvert, INRA, 78352 Jouy en Josas Cedex, France
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González-Barrera S, Sánchez A, Ruiz JF, Juárez R, Picher AJ, Terrados G, Andrade P, Blanco L. Characterization of SpPol4, a unique X-family DNA polymerase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:4762-74. [PMID: 16120966 PMCID: PMC1192829 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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As predicted by the amino acid sequence, the purified protein coded by Schizosaccharomyces pombe SPAC2F7.06c is a DNA polymerase (SpPol4) whose biochemical properties resemble those of other X family (PolX) members. Thus, this new PolX is template-dependent, polymerizes in a distributive manner, lacks a detectable 3'-->5' proofreading activity and its preferred substrates are small gaps with a 5'-phosphate group. Similarly to Polmu, SpPol4 can incorporate a ribonucleotide (rNTP) into a primer DNA. However, it is not responsible for the 1-2 rNTPs proposed to be present at the mating-type locus and those necessary for mating-type switching. Unlike Polmu, SpPol4 lacks terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase activity and realigns the primer terminus to alternative template bases only under certain sequence contexts and, therefore, it is less error-prone than Polmu. Nonetheless, the biochemical properties of this gap-filling DNA polymerase are suitable for a possible role of SpPol4 in non-homologous end-joining. Unexpectedly based on sequence analysis, SpPol4 has deoxyribose phosphate lyase activity like Polbeta and Pollambda, and unlike Polmu, suggesting also a role of this enzyme in base excision repair. Therefore, SpPol4 is a unique enzyme whose enzymatic properties are hybrid of those described for mammalian Polbeta, Pollambda and Polmu.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +34 91 497 8493; Fax: +34 91 497 4799;
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- Ashwini S Kamath-Loeb
- The Joseph Gottstein Memorial Cance Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Immunoglobulin (Ig) gene somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch DNA recombination (CSR) are critical for the maturation of the antibody response. These processes endow antibodies with increased antigen-binding affinity and acquisition of new biological effector functions, thereby underlying the generation of memory B cells and plasma cells. They are dependent on the generation of specific DNA lesions and the intervention of activation-induced cytidine deaminase as well as newly identified translesion DNA polymerases, which are expressed in germinal center B cells. DNA lesions include mismatches, abasic sites, nicks, single-strand breaks, and double-strand breaks (DSBs). DSBs in the switch (S) region DNA are critical for CSR, but they also occur in V(D)J regions and possibly contribute to the events that lead to SHM. The nature of the DSBs in the Ig locus, their generation, and the repair processes that they trigger and that are responsible for their regulation remain poorly understood. Aberrant regulation of these events can result in chromosomal breaks and translocations, which are significant steps in B-cell neoplastic transformation.
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- Zhenming Xu
- Center for Immunology, 3028 Hewitt Hall, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4120, USA
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The replication DNA polymerase (gp43) of the bacteriophage T4 is a member of the pol B family of DNA polymerases, which are found in all divisions of life in the biosphere. The enzyme is a modularly organized protein that has several activities in one polypeptide chain (approximately 900 amino acid residues). These include two catalytic functions, POL (polymerase) and EXO (3 -exonuclease), and specific binding activities to DNA, the mRNA for gp43, deoxyribonucleotides (dNTPs), and other T4 replication proteins. The gene for this multifunctional enzyme (gene 43) has been preserved in evolution of the diverse group of T4-like phages in nature, but has diverged in sequence, organization, and specificity of the binding functions of the gene product. We describe here examples of T4-like phages where DNA rearrangements have created split forms of gene 43 consisting of two cistrons instead of one. These gene 43 variants specify separate gp43A (N-terminal) and gp43B (C-terminal) subunits of a split form of gp43. Compared to the monocistronic form, the interruption in contiguity of the gene 43 reading frame maps in a highly diverged sequence separating the code for essential components of two major modules of this pol B enzyme, the FINGERS and PALM domains, which contain the dNTP binding pocket and POL catalytic residues of the enzyme. We discuss the biological implications of these gp43 splits and compare them to other types of pol B splits in nature. Our studies suggest that DNA mobile elements may allow genetic information for pol B modules to be exchanged between organisms.
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- V M Petrov
- Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Department of Biochemistry SL43, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699, USA
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Polkappa is one of many DNA polymerases involved in translesion DNA synthesis (TLS). It belongs to the Y-family of polymerases along with Poleta, Poliota and hREV1. Unlike Poleta encoded by the xeroderma pigmentosum variant (XPV) gene, Polkappa is unable to bypass UV-induced DNA damage in vitro, but it is able to bypass benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P)-adducted guanines accurately and efficiently. In an attempt to identify factor(s) targeting Polkappa to its cognate DNA lesion(s), we searched for Polkappa-interacting proteins by using the yeast two-hybrid assay. We found that Polkappa interacts with a C-terminal region of hREV1. Poleta and Poliota were also found to interact with the same region of hREV1. The interaction between Polkappa and hREV1 was confirmed by pull-down and co-immunoprecipitation assays. The C-terminal region of hREV1 is known to interact with hREV7, a non-catalytic subunit of Polzeta that is another structurally unrelated TLS enzyme, and we show that Polkappa and hREV7 bind to the same C-terminal region of hREV1. Thus, our results suggest that hREV1 plays a pivotal role in the multi-enzyme, multi-step process of translesion DNA synthesis.
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- Eiji Ohashi
- Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, 53 Shogoin-Kawaracho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Lecointe F, Shevelev IV, Bailone A, Sommer S, Hübscher U. Involvement of an X family DNA polymerase in double-stranded break repair in the radioresistant organism Deinococcus radiodurans. Mol Microbiol 2004; 53:1721-30. [PMID: 15341650 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04233.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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DNA polymerases of the X family have been implicated in a variety of DNA repair processes in eukaryotes. Here we show that Deinococcus radiodurans, a highly radioresistant bacterium able to mend hundreds of radiation-induced double-stranded DNA breaks, expresses a DNA polymerase belonging to the X family. This novel bacterial polymerase, named PolX(Dr), was identified as the product of the Deinococcal DR0467 gene. The purified PolX(Dr) protein possesses a DNA polymerase activity that is stimulated by MnCl2, a property of the X family DNA polymerases. Antibodies raised against PolX(Dr) recognized human pol lambda, rat pol beta and yeast Pol4 and, conversely, antibodies raised against these proteins recognized PolX(Dr). This immunological cross-reactivity suggests a high degree of structural conservation among the polymerases of the X family. Lack of PolX(Dr) reduced the rate of repair of double-stranded DNA breaks and increased cell sensitivity to gamma-rays. PolX(Dr) thus appears to play an important role in double-stranded DNA break repair in D. radiodurans.
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- François Lecointe
- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Bâtiment 409, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Hendrickson CL, Devine KG, Benner SA. Probing minor groove recognition contacts by DNA polymerases and reverse transcriptases using 3-deaza-2'-deoxyadenosine. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:2241-50. [PMID: 15107492 PMCID: PMC407825 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Standard nucleobases all present electron density as an unshared pair of electrons to the minor groove of the double helix. Many heterocycles supporting artificial genetic systems lack this electron pair. To determine how different DNA polymerases use the pair as a substrate specificity determinant, three Family A polymerases, three Family B polymerases and three reverse transcriptases were examined for their ability to handle 3-deaza-2'-deoxyadenosine (c3dA), an analog of 2'-deoxyadenosine lacking the minor groove electron pair. Different polymerases differed widely in their interaction with c3dA. Most notably, Family A and Family B polymerases differed in their use of this interaction to exploit their exonuclease activities. Significant differences were also found within polymerase families. This plasticity in polymerase behavior is encouraging to those wishing to develop a synthetic biology based on artificial genetic systems. The differences also suggest either that Family A and Family B polymerases do not share a common ancestor, that minor groove contact was not used by that ancestor functionally or that this contact was not sufficiently critical to fitness to have been conserved as the polymerase families diverged. Each interpretation is significant for understanding the planetary biology of polymerases.
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- Cynthia L Hendrickson
- Department of Chemistry and Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7200, USA
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- Katarzyna Bebenek
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Plant cells have two distinct types of energy-converting organelles: plastids and mitochondria. These organelles have their own DNAs and are regarded as descendants of endosymbiotic prokaryotes. The organelle DNAs associate with various proteins to form compact DNA-protein complexes, which are referred to as organelle nuclei or nucleoids. Various functions of organelle genomes, such as DNA replication and transcription, are performed within these compact structures. Fluorescence microscopy using the DNA-specific fluorochrome 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole has played a pivotal role in establishing the concept of "organelle nuclei." This fluorochrome has also facilitated the isolation of morphologically intact organelle nuclei, which is indispensable for understanding their structure and composition. Moreover, development of an in vitro transcription?DNA synthesis system using isolated organelle nuclei has provided us with a means of measuring and analyzing the function of organelle nuclei. In addition to these morphological and biochemical approaches, genomics has also had a great impact on our ability to investigate the components of organelle nuclei. These analyses have revealed that organelle nuclei are not a vestige of the bacterial counterpart, but rather are a complex system established through extensive interaction between organelle and cell nuclear genomes during evolution. Extensive diversion or exchange during evolution is predicted to have occurred for several important structural proteins, such as major DNA-compacting proteins, and functional proteins, such as RNA and DNA polymerases, resulting in complex mechanisms to control the function of organelle genomes. Thus, organelle nuclei represent the most dynamic front of interaction between the three genomes (cell nuclear, plastid, and mitochondrial) constituting eukaryotic plant cells.
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- Atsushi Sakai
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Nara Women's University, Nara 630-8506, Japan
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- I R Lehman
- Department of Biochemistry, Beckman Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Alan Lehmann
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK
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Although DNA polymerase eta (Pol eta) and other Y family polymerases differ in sequence and function from classical DNA polymerases, they all share a similar right-handed architecture with the palm, fingers, and thumb domains. Here, we examine the role in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pol eta of three conserved residues, tyrosine 64, arginine 67, and lysine 279, which come into close contact with the triphosphate moiety of the incoming nucleotide, in nucleotide incorporation. We find that mutational alteration of these residues reduces the efficiency of correct nucleotide incorporation very considerably. The high degree of conservation of these residues among the various Y family DNA polymerases suggests that these residues are also crucial for nucleotide incorporation in the other members of the family. Furthermore, we note that tyrosine 64 and arginine 67 are functionally equivalent to the deoxynucleotide triphosphate binding residues arginine 518 and histidine 506 in T7 DNA polymerase, respectively.
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- Robert E Johnson
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77555-1061, USA
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Yang W, Rogozin IB, Koonin EV. Yeast POL5 is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of rDNA transcription unrelated to any known DNA polymerases. Cell Cycle 2003; 2:120-2. [PMID: 12695662 DOI: 10.4161/cc.2.2.329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We show that yeast protein Yel055cp, which has been identified as the fifth essential DNA polymerase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (POL5), is a member of a family of predicted rDNA transcription regulators (typified by human MYB-binding protein MYBBP1 A), which are represented by a single ortholog in all animals, fungi and plants with sequenced genomes. These proteins are confidently predicted to have an entirely a-helical structure and are unrelated to the B class DNA polymerases, as claimed for yeast POL5, or any other known polymerases.
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- Wei Yang
- National Center for Biotechnology Inforamtion, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health; Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
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Kinetoplast DNA (kDNA), the unusual mitochondrial DNA of Trypanosoma brucei, is a network containing thousands of catenated circles. Database searching for a kDNA replicative polymerase (pol) revealed no mitochondrial pol gamma homolog. Instead, we identified four proteins (TbPOLIA, IB, IC, and ID) related to bacterial pol I. Remarkably, all four localized to the mitochondrion. TbPOLIB and TbPOLIC localized beside the kDNA where replication occurs, and their knockdown by RNA interference caused kDNA network shrinkage. Furthermore, silencing of TbPOLIC caused loss of both minicircles and maxicircles and accumulation of minicircle replication intermediates, consistent with a role in replication. While typical mitochondria contain one DNA polymerase, pol gamma, trypanosome mitochondria contain five such enzymes, including the previously characterized pol beta.
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- Michele M Klingbeil
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Suzuki M, Izuta S. [DNA replication fidelity in DNA replication system in vitro]. Seikagaku 2002; 74:238-43. [PMID: 11974918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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- Motoshi Suzuki
- Research Institute for Disease Mechanism and Control, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicie, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550
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Wang Z. DNA damage-induced mutagenesis : a novel target for cancer prevention. Mol Interv 2001; 1:269-81. [PMID: 14993366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Tolerance to some degree of unrepaired DNA damage is crucial for cell survival-more specifically, for the sustained functionality of the DNA replication machinery-in the presence of adverse (genotoxic) conditions. At least two mechanisms ensure such tolerance: template switching and lesion bypass. Lesion bypass, whereby unrepaired damaged DNA serves as template, involves the Y family of DNA polymerases; lesion bypass can be error-free or error-prone, depending on the nucleotide incorporated during translesion synthesis. Error-prone lesion bypass constitutes a major mechanism of mutagenesis and, in eukaryotes, is primarily effected by the DNA polymerase zeta (Polzeta) pathway. A relationship between the Y family polymerases and the Polzeta pathway is thus implicated, and conforms to the two-polymerase two-step model of lesion bypass. Based on the mutagenesis hypothesis of cancer formation, DNA damage-induced mutagenesis and its underlying molecular biology offer an intriguing potential target for cancer prevention.
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- Z Wang
- Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536, USA.
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Translesion synthesis is an important cellular mechanism to overcome replication blockage by DNA damage. To copy damaged DNA templates during replication, specialized DNA polymerases are required. Translesion synthesis can be error-free or error-prone. From E. coli to humans, error-prone translesion synthesis constitutes a major mechanism of DNA damage-induced mutagenesis. As a response to DNA damage during replication, translesion synthesis contributes to cell survival and induced mutagenesis. During 1999-2000, the UmuC superfamily had emerged, which consists of the following prototypic members: the E. coli UmuC, the E. coli DinB, the yeast Rad30, the human RAD30B, and the yeast Rev1. The corresponding biochemical activities are DNA polymerases V, IV, eta, iota, and dCMP transferase, respectively. Recent studies of the UmuC superfamily are summarized and evidence is presented suggesting that this family of DNA polymerases is involved in translesion DNA synthesis.
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- Z Wang
- Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.
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Ohmori H, Friedberg EC, Fuchs RP, Goodman MF, Hanaoka F, Hinkle D, Kunkel TA, Lawrence CW, Livneh Z, Nohmi T, Prakash L, Prakash S, Todo T, Walker GC, Wang Z, Woodgate R. The Y-family of DNA polymerases. Mol Cell 2001; 8:7-8. [PMID: 11515498 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(01)00278-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 705] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Ehlers B, Burkhardt S, Goltz M, Bergmann V, Ochs A, Weiler H, Hentschke J. Genetic and ultrastructural characterization of a European isolate of the fatal endotheliotropic elephant herpesvirus. J Gen Virol 2001; 82:475-482. [PMID: 11172087 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-82-3-475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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A male Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) died at the Berlin zoological gardens in August 1998 of systemic infection with the novel endotheliotropic elephant herpesvirus (ElHV-1). This virus causes a fatal haemorrhagic disease in Asian elephants, the so-called endothelial inclusion body disease, as reported from North American zoological gardens. In the present work, ElHV-1 was visualized ultrastructurally in affected organ material. Furthermore, a gene block comprising the complete glycoprotein B (gB) and DNA polymerase (DPOL) genes as well as two partial genes was amplified by PCR-based genome walking and sequenced. The gene content and arrangement were similar to those of members of the Betaherpesvirinae. However, phylogenetic analysis with gB and DPOL consistently revealed a very distant relationship to the betaherpesviruses. Therefore, ElHV-1 may be a member of a new genus or even a new herpesvirus subfamily. The sequence information generated was used to set up a nested-PCR assay for diagnosis of suspected cases of endothelial inclusion body disease. Furthermore, it will aid in the development of antibody-based detection methods and of vaccination strategies against this fatal herpesvirus infection in the endangered Asian elephant.
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- B Ehlers
- Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin, Germany1
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- Institut für Lebensmittel, Arzneimittel und Tierseuchen, Invalidenstr. 60, 10557 Berlin, Germany2
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- Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin, Germany1
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- Institut für Veterinär-Pathologie der Freien Universität Berlin, Straße 518, Nr. 15, 14163 Berlin, Germany3
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- Zoologischer Garten Berlin AG, Hardenbergplatz 8, 10787 Berlin, Germany4
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- Institut für Veterinär-Pathologie der Freien Universität Berlin, Straße 518, Nr. 15, 14163 Berlin, Germany3
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- Institut für Lebensmittel, Arzneimittel und Tierseuchen, Invalidenstr. 60, 10557 Berlin, Germany2
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The mechanism of somatic hypermutation of the immunoglobulin genes remains a mystery after nearly 30 years of intensive research in the field. While many clues to the process have been discovered in terms of the genetic elements required in the immunoglobulin genes, the key enzymatic players that mediate the introduction of mutations into the variable region are unknown. The recent wave of newly discovered eukaryotic DNA polymerases have given a fresh supply of potential candidates and a renewed vigour in the search for the elusive mutator factor governing affinity maturation. In this paper, we discuss the relevant genetic and biochemical evidence known to date regarding both somatic hypermutation and the new DNA polymerases and address how the two fields can be brought together to identify the strongest candidates for further study. In particular we discuss evidence for the in vitro biochemical misincorporation properties of human Rad30B/Pol iota and how it compares to the in vivo somatic hypermutation spectra.
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- B Tippin
- Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089-1340, USA
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Over the past year, the number of known prokaryotic and eukaryotic DNA polymerases has exploded. Many of these newly discovered enzymes copy aberrant bases in the DNA template over which 'respectable' polymerases fear to tread. The next step is to unravel their functions, which are thought to range from error-prone copying of DNA lesions, somatic hypermutation and avoidance of skin cancer, to restarting stalled replication forks and repairing double-stranded DNA breaks.
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- M F Goodman
- University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, Stauffer Hall of Science 172, Los Angeles, California 90089-1340, USA.
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Goltz M, Widen F, Banks M, Belak S, Ehlers B. Characterization of the DNA polymerase loci of porcine cytomegaloviruses from diverse geographic origins. Virus Genes 2000; 21:249-55. [PMID: 11129643 DOI: 10.1023/a:1008156017758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Porcine cytomegalovirus (PCMV) is an undesired pathogen in pigs intended for use as organ donors in xenotransplantation. In the present work, we characterized the first set of genes of PCMV. From a German isolate, the DNA polymerase (DPOL) locus was amplified and two complete open reading frames (ORF) as well as two partial ORFs including the complete DPOL gene and the 3'-end of the glycoprotein gB gene were sequenced. The deduced amino acid sequences showed the highest identities with the respective proteins of the betaherpesviruses, in particular those (ORFs 36-39) of the human herpesviruses 6 and 7 (HHV-6 and -7). In phylogenetic analysis, PCMV clustered also with HHV-6 and HHV-7. On this basis, PCMV could be firmly classified to the Betaherpesvirinae and tentatively assigned to the genus Roseolovirus. In addition to the German isolate, the DPOL gene was analysed from a British and a Japanese strain as well as a Spanish isolate. Differences of 0.4 to 1% were found on the nucleotide and the amino acid level. On the basis of the conserved regions, primer pairs were selected for PCR which detected PCMV in blood and tissue samples from four European countries. Therefore, these are the first nucleic acid-based test systems which were shown to universally detect PCMV. The application of these assays to organs of domestic pigs from Germany revealed a PCMV prevalence of > 50%.
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- M Goltz
- Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany
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Aoufouchi S, Flatter E, Dahan A, Faili A, Bertocci B, Storck S, Delbos F, Cocea L, Gupta N, Weill JC, Reynaud CA. Two novel human and mouse DNA polymerases of the polX family. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:3684-93. [PMID: 10982892 PMCID: PMC110747 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.18.3684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2000] [Revised: 06/27/2000] [Accepted: 07/21/2000] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We describe here two novel mouse and human DNA polymerases: one (pol lambda) has homology with DNA polymerase beta while the other one (pol mu) is closer to terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase. However both have DNA polymerase activity in vitro and share similar structural organization, including a BRCT domain, helix-loop-helix DNA-binding motifs and polymerase X domain. mRNA expression of pol lambda is highest in testis and fetal liver, while expression of pol mu is more lymphoid, with highest expression both in thymus and tonsillar B cells. An unusually large number of splice variants is observed for the pol mu gene, most of which affect the polymerase domain. Expression of mRNA of both polymerases is down-regulated upon treatment by DNA damaging agents (UV light, gamma-rays or H(2)O(2)). This suggests that their biological function may differ from DNA translesion synthesis, for which several DNA polymerase activities have been recently described. Possible functions are discussed.
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- S Aoufouchi
- INSERM U373, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris V, 156 rue de Vaugirard, 75730 Paris cedex 15, France
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Iwai T, Kurosawa N, Itoh YH, Kimura N, Horiuchi T. Sequence analysis of three family B DNA polymerases from the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis. DNA Res 2000; 7:243-51. [PMID: 10997874 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/7.4.243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Three family B DNA polymerase genes, designated B1, B2, and B3, were cloned from the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis, and sequenced. Deduced amino acid sequences of B1 and B3 DNA polymerases have all exonuclease and polymerase motifs which include critical residues for catalytic activities. Furthermore, a YxGG/A motif, which is located between 3'-5' exonuclease and polymerization domains of family B DNA polymerases, was also found in each of the B1 and B3 sequences. These findings suggested that S. ohwakuensis B1 and B3 DNA polymerases have both exonuclease and polymerase activities. However, amino acid sequence of the B2 DNA polymerase of this organism contains several amino acid substitutions in Pol-motifs, and also lacks Exo-motif I and Exo-motif II. These substitutions and lack of certain motifs raise questions about polymerase and exonuclease activities of the corresponding gene product. The B3 sequence of S. ohwakuensis is more closely related to Pyrodictium, Aeropyrum, and Archaeoglobus DNA polymerase B3 sequences than to the Sulfolobus B3 sequences. Phylogenetic analysis showed that crenarchaeal B1 DNA polymerases are closely related to each other, and suggested that crenarchaeal B3, euryarchaeal family B, and eukaryal epsilon DNA polymerases may be orthologs.
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- T Iwai
- Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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Rodriguez AC, Park HW, Mao C, Beese LS. Crystal structure of a pol alpha family DNA polymerase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus sp. 9 degrees N-7. J Mol Biol 2000; 299:447-62. [PMID: 10860752 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The 2.25 A resolution crystal structure of a pol alpha family (family B) DNA polymerase from the hyperthermophilic marine archaeon Thermococcus sp. 9 degrees N-7 (9 degrees N-7 pol) provides new insight into the mechanism of pol alpha family polymerases that include essentially all of the eukaryotic replicative and viral DNA polymerases. The structure is folded into NH(2)- terminal, editing 3'-5' exonuclease, and polymerase domains that are topologically similar to the two other known pol alpha family structures (bacteriophage RB69 and the recently determined Thermococcus gorgonarius), but differ in their relative orientation and conformation. The 9 degrees N-7 polymerase domain structure is reminiscent of the "closed" conformation characteristic of ternary complexes of the pol I polymerase family obtained in the presence of their dNTP and DNA substrates. In the apo-9 degrees N-7 structure, this conformation appears to be stabilized by an ion pair. Thus far, the other apo-pol alpha structures that have been determined adopt open conformations. These results therefore suggest that the pol alpha polymerases undergo a series of conformational transitions during the catalytic cycle similar to those proposed for the pol I family. Furthermore, comparison of the orientations of the fingers and exonuclease (sub)domains relative to the palm subdomain that contains the pol active site suggests that the exonuclease domain and the fingers subdomain of the polymerase can move as a unit and may do so as part of the catalytic cycle. This provides a possible structural explanation for the interdependence of polymerization and editing exonuclease activities unique to pol alpha family polymerases. We suggest that the NH(2)-terminal domain of 9 degrees N-7 pol may be structurally related to an RNA-binding motif, which appears to be conserved among archaeal polymerases. The presence of such a putative RNA- binding domain suggests a mechanism for the observed autoregulation of bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase synthesis by binding to its own mRNA. Furthermore, conservation of this domain could indicate that such regulation of pol expression may be a characteristic of archaea. Comparion of the 9 degrees N-7 pol structure to its mesostable homolog from bacteriophage RB69 suggests that thermostability is achieved by shortening loops, forming two disulfide bridges, and increasing electrostatic interactions at subdomain interfaces.
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- A C Rodriguez
- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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Friedberg EC, Feaver WJ, Gerlach VL. The many faces of DNA polymerases: strategies for mutagenesis and for mutational avoidance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:5681-3. [PMID: 10811923 PMCID: PMC33986 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.120152397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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- E C Friedberg
- Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9072, USA.
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Hashimoto H, Matsumoto T, Nishioka M, Yuasa T, Takeuchi S, Inoue T, Fujiwara S, Takagi M, Imanaka T, Kai Y. Crystallographic studies on a family B DNA polymerase from hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus kodakaraensis strain KOD1. J Biochem 1999; 125:983-6. [PMID: 10348896 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A hyperthermostable family B DNA polymerase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus kodakaraensis strain KOD1, has been crystallized by the hanging-drop vapor diffusion method at 293 K with 2-methyl-2,4-pentanediol as the precipitant. The diffraction pattern of a crystal extends to 3.0 A resolution, and two full sets of 3.0 A resolution diffraction data for native crystals were successfully collected at 290 K and 100 K upon exposure to synchrotron radiation at KEK-PF, Japan. The crystals belong to the space group, P212121, with unit-cell dimensions of a = 112.8, b = 115.4, and c = 75.4 A at 290 K, and a = 111.9, b = 112.4, and c = 73.9 at 100 K. Structural analysis by means of the multiple isomorphous replacement method is now in progress.
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- H Hashimoto
- Department of Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Yoshidahonmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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Bulach DM, Kumar CA, Zaia A, Liang B, Tribe DE. Group II nucleopolyhedrovirus subgroups revealed by phylogenetic analysis of polyhedrin and DNA polymerase gene sequences. J Invertebr Pathol 1999; 73:59-73. [PMID: 9878291 DOI: 10.1006/jipa.1998.4797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Two major clades, designated Groups I and II, of nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPVs) from lepidopteran hosts have been previously identified. To reveal more detailed relationships, a series of DNA polymerase nucleotide sequences from the taxa MbMNPV, SeMNPV, HzSNPV, HearNPV, SpltNPV, BusuNPV, and OranNPV have been determined using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based approach. This technique enabled gene sequence determination using microliter samples of NPV-infected insect cadavers. Polyhedrin genes from HearNPV, OranNPV, SeMNPV, and SpltNPV were also isolated and sequenced using a similar approach. These sequences, together with other database entries, were aligned for positional homology of peptide sequences. Phylogenetic analysis of DNA polymerase molecular sequence alignments supports LdMNPV as a taxon of Group II and three Group II subclades, designated A, B, and C. Comparison of DNA polymerase trees with those estimated from occlusion protein molecular sequences enabled identification of three subclades of Group II. These are Subgroup II-A [MbMNPV, LeseNPV, MacoNPV, PaflNPV, SeMNPV, SpltNPV (India isolate), SfMNPV]; Subgroup II-B [SpliNPV, SpltNPV (Japan isolate), SpltNPV (Queensland isolate), and possibly HzSNPV, HearNPV, and ManeNPV], and Subgroup II-C [OpSNPV, OranNPV (S-type), BusuNPV (S-type), and possibly EcobNPV (S-type)]. Notably, all Subgroup II-A taxa are from noctuid hosts. Correlations of virus and host evolution within Group II taxa are discussed. The methods and data developed in this study will allow rapid sequencing of NPV DNA polymerase genes.
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- D M Bulach
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia
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DNA polymerases carry out a large variety of synthetic transactions during DNA replication, DNA recombination and DNA repair. Substrates for DNA polymerases vary from single nucleotide gaps to kilobase size gaps and from relatively simple gapped structures to complex replication forks in which two strands need to be replicated simultaneously. Consequently, one would expect the cell to have developed a well-defined set of DNA polymerases with each one uniquely adapted for a specific pathway. And to some degree this turns out to be the case. However, in addition we seem to find a large degree of cross-functionality of DNA polymerases in these different pathways. DNA polymerase alpha is almost exclusively required for the initiation of DNA replication and the priming of Okazaki fragments during elongation. In most organisms no specific repair role beyond that of checkpoint control has been assigned to this enzyme. DNA polymerase delta functions as a dimer and, therefore, may be responsible for both leading and lagging strand DNA replication. In addition, this enzyme is required for mismatch repair and, together with DNA polymerase zeta, for mutagenesis. The function of DNA polymerase epsilon in DNA replication may be restricted to that of Okazaki fragment maturation. In contrast, either polymerase delta or epsilon suffices for the repair of UV-induced damage. The role of DNA polymerase beta in base-excision repair is well established for mammalian systems, but in yeast, DNA polymerase delta appears to fulfill that function.
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- P M Burgers
- Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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DNA polymerase from Sulfolobus solfataricus, strain MT4 (Sso DNA pol), was one of the first archaeal DNA polymerases to be isolated and characterized. Its encoding gene was cloned and sequenced, indicating that Sso DNA pol belongs to family B of DNA polymerases. By limited proteolysis experiments carried out on the recombinant homogeneous protein, we were able to demonstrate that the enzyme has a modular organization of its associated catalytic functions (DNA polymerase and 3'-5' exonuclease). Indeed, the synthetic function was ascribed to the enzyme C-terminal portion, whereas the N-terminal half was found to be responsible for the exonucleolytic activity. In addition, partial proteolysis studies were utilized to map conformational changes on DNA binding by comparing the cleavage map in the absence or presence of nucleic acid ligands. This analysis allowed us to identify two segments of the Sso DNA pol amino acid chain affected by structural modifications following nucleic acid binding: region 1 and region 2, in the middle and at the C-terminal end of the protein chain, respectively. Site-directed mutagenesis studies will be performed to better investigate the role of these two protein segments in DNA substrate interaction.
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- F M Pisani
- Istituto di Biochimica delle Proteine ed Enzimologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli, Italy.
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Schleper C, Swanson RV, Mathur EJ, DeLong EF. Characterization of a DNA polymerase from the uncultivated psychrophilic archaeon Cenarchaeum symbiosum. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:7803-11. [PMID: 9401041 PMCID: PMC179745 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.24.7803-7811.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Cenarchaeum symbiosum, an archaeon which lives in specific association with a marine sponge, belongs to a recently recognized nonthermophilic crenarchaeotal group that inhabits diverse cold and temperate environments. Nonthermophilic crenarchaeotes have not yet been obtained in laboratory culture, and so their phenotypic characteristics have been inferred solely from their ecological distribution. Here we report on the first protein to be characterized from one of these organisms. The DNA polymerase gene of C. symbiosum was identified in the vicinity of the rRNA operon on a large genomic contig. Its deduced amino acid sequence is highly similar to those of the archaeal family B (alpha-type) DNA polymerases. It shared highest overall sequence similarity with the crenarchaeal DNA polymerases from the extreme thermophiles Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and Pyrodictium occultum (54% and 53%, respectively). The conserved motifs of B (alpha-)-type DNA polymerases and 3'-5' exonuclease were identified in the 845-amino-acid sequence. The 96-kDa protein was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified with affinity tags. It exhibited its highest specific activity with gapped-duplex (activated) DNA as the substrate. Single-strand- and double-strand-dependent 3'-5' exonuclease activity was detected, as was a marginal 5'-3' exonuclease activity. The enzyme was rapidly inactivated at temperatures higher than 40 degrees C, with a half-life of 10 min at 46 degrees C. It was found to be less thermostable than polymerase I of E. coli and is substantially more heat labile than its most closely related homologs from thermophilic and hyperthermophilic crenarchaeotes. Although phylogenetic studies suggest a thermophilic ancestry for C. symbiosum and its relatives, our biochemical analysis of the DNA polymerase is consistent with the postulated nonthermophilic phenotype of these crenarchaeotes, to date inferred solely from their ecological distribution.
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- C Schleper
- Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA
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