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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 49, Issue 22, Pages 4695-4704Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi901792c
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [08-04-91973, 09-04-00899-a, 09-04-01315-a]
- Russian Academy of Science
- Italian Association for Cancer Research
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Here we investigated the ability of the human X-family DNA polymerases beta and lambda to bypass thymine glycol (Tg) in gapped DNA substrates with the damage located in a defined position of the template strand. Maximum velocities and the Michaelis constant values were determined to study DNA synthesis in the presence of either Mg2+ or Mn2+. Additionally, the influence of hRPA (human replication protein A) and hPCNA (human proliferating cell nuclear antigen) on TLS (translesion synthesis) activity of DNA polymerases beta and lambda was examined. The results show that (i) DNA polymerase lambda is able to catalyze DNA synthesis across Tg, (ii) the ability of DNA polymerase lambda to elongate from a base paired to a Tg lesion is influenced by the size of the DNA gap, (iii) hPCNA increases the fidelity of Tg bypass and does not influence normal DNA synthesis catalyzed by DNA polymerase lambda, (iv) DNA polymerase beta catalyzes the incorporation of all four dNTPs opposite Tg, and (v) hPCNA as well as hRPA has no specific effect on TLS in comparison with the normal DNA synthesis catalyzed by DNA polymerase beta. These results considerably extend our knowledge concerning the ability of specialized DNA polymerases to cope with a very common DNA lesion such as Tg.
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