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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 52, Issue 44, Pages 7723-7730Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi400708m
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- Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust
- Iowa State University
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Plasmodium falciparum, a parasitic organism and one of the causative agents of malaria, contains an unusual organelle called the apicoplast. The apicoplast is a nonphotosynthetic plastid responsible for supplying the parasite with isoprenoid units and is therefore indispensable. Like mitochondria and the chloroplast, the apicoplast contains its own genome and harbors the enzymes responsible for its replication. In this report, we determine the relative probabilities of nucleotide misincorporation by the apicoplast polymerase (apPOL), examine the kinetics and sequence dependence of mismatch extension, and determine the rates of mismatch removal by the 3' to 5' proofreading activity of the DNA polymerase. While the intrinsic polymerase fidelity varies by >50-fold for the 12 possible nucleotide misincorporations, the most dominant selection step for overall polymerase fidelity is conducted at the level of mismatch extension, which varies by >350-fold. The efficiency of mismatch extension depends on both the nature of the DNA mismatch and the templating base. The proofreading activity of the 12 possible mismatches varies <3-fold. The data for these three determinants of polymerase-induced mutations indicate that the overall mutation frequency of apPOL is highly dependent on both the intrinsic fidelity of the polymerase and the identity of the template surrounding the potential mismatch.
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