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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 1393-1413Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt900
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- Research Council of Lithuania [MIP-079/2011]
- European Community [FP7-REGPOT-2009-1]
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The analysis of similar to 2000 bacterial genomes revealed that they all, without a single exception, encode one or more DNA polymerase III alpha-subunit (PolIII alpha) homologs. Classified into C-family of DNA polymerases they come in two major forms, PolC and DnaE, related by ancient duplication. While PolC represents an evolutionary compact group, DnaE can be further subdivided into at least three groups (DnaE1-3). We performed an extensive analysis of various sequence, structure and surface properties of all four polymerase groups. Our analysis suggests a specific evolutionary pathway leading to PolC and DnaE from the last common ancestor and reveals important differences between extant polymerase groups. Among them, DnaE1 and PolC show the highest conservation of the analyzed properties. DnaE3 polymerases apparently represent an 'impaired' version of DnaE1. Nonessential DnaE2 polymerases, typical for oxygen-using bacteria with large GC-rich genomes, have a number of features in common with DnaE3 polymerases. The analysis of polymerase distribution in genomes revealed three major combinations: DnaE1 either alone or accompanied by one or more DnaE2s, PolC+ DnaE3 and PolC+ DnaE1. The first two combinations are present in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, respectively. The third one (PolC + DnaE1), found in Clostridia, represents a novel, so far experimentally uncharacterized, set.
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