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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 7, Pages 2037-2046Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.22.7.2037-2046.2002
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA082741, CA85377, R01 CA085377, CA82604, CA82741] Funding Source: Medline
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DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is a critical genome-stabilization system. However, the molecular mechanism of MMR in human cells remains obscure because many of the components have not yet been identified. Using a functional in vitro reconstitution system, this study identified three HeLa cell fractions essential for in vitro MMR. These fractions divide human MMR into two distinct stages: mismatch-provoked excision and repair synthesis. In vitro dissection of the MMR reaction and crucial intermediates elucidated biochemical functions of individual fractions in human MMR and identified hitherto unknown functions of human replication protein A (hRPA) in MMR. Thus, one fraction carries out nick-directed and mismatch-dependent excision; the second carries out DNA repair synthesis and DNA ligation; and the third provides hRPA, which plays multiple roles in human MMR by protecting the template DNA strand from degradation, enhancing repair excision, and facilitating repair synthesis. It is anticipated that further analysis of these fractions will identify additional MMR components and enable the complete reconstitution of the human MMR pathway with purified proteins.
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