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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 280, Issue 18, Pages 18469-18475Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M411864200
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Mammalian DNA polymerase (pol) lambda is a member of the X-family of DNA polymerases and has striking enzymatic and structural similarities to mammalian DNA pol beta. Because pol beta provides two important enzymatic activities for base excision repair (BER), we examined whether pol lambda might also contribute to BER. We used extracts from mouse embryonic fibroblasts representing wild-type and null genotypes for pol beta and pol lambda. In combination with neutralizing antibodies against pol beta and pol lambda, our results show a BER deficiency in the pol lambda -/- cell extract compared with extract from isogenic wild-type cells. In addition, the pol lambda antibody strongly reduced in vitro BER in the pol beta -/- cell extract. These data indicate that pol lambda is able to contribute to BER in mouse fibroblast cell extract.
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