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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 276, Issue 9, Pages 6861-6866Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M008021200
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM19261] Funding Source: Medline
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DNA polymerase eta (Pol eta) bypasses a cis-syn thymine-thymine dimer efficiently and accurately, and inactivation of Pol eta in humans results in the cancer-prone syndrome, the variant form of xeroderma pigmentosum. Also, Pol eta bypasses the 8-oxoguanine lesion efficiently by predominantly inserting a C opposite this lesion, and it bypasses the O-6-methylguanine lesion by inserting a C or a T. To further assess the range of DNA lesions tolerated by Pol eta, here we examine the bypass of an abasic site, a prototypical noninstructional lesion. Steady state kinetic analyses show that both yeast and human Pol eta are very inefficient in both inserting a nucleotide opposite an abasic site and in extending from the nucleotide inserted. Hence, Pol eta bypasses this lesion extremely poorly. These results suggest that Pol eta requires the presence of template bases opposite both the incoming nucleotide and the primer terminus to catalyze efficient nucleotide incorporation.
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