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BIOCHIMIE
Volume 91, Issue 9, Pages 1163-1172Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2009.06.007
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DNA polymerase delta; DNA replication fidelity; Proofreading; Lesion bypass synthesis
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 CA102029, R01 CA115802, P01 CA077852, F30 AG030314, T32 GM007266]
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA102029, P01CA077852, R01CA115802] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [T32GM007266] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [F30AG030314] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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DNA polymerase delta (Pol delta) is one of the main replicative DNA polymerases in human cells and therefore is a critical determinant of the overall accuracy of DNA synthesis. Here we document the fidelity of a human Pol delta holoenzyme and systematically score the types of mutations that the enzyme generates in a forward mutation assay. We find that human Pol delta is highly accurate, catalyzing less than one nucleotide mis-insertion per 220,000 nucleotides polymerized. Inactivation of proofreading or mutation of a conserved active site residue significantly elevates the frequency of incorporation errors, demonstrating the contribution of both the base selection and proofreading domains to the overall accuracy of synthesis by Pol delta. The highly selective nature of the polymerase active site is also indicated by the stalling of Pol delta upon encountering multiple types of DNA lesions. However, DNA damage is not an absolute block to Pol delta progression. We propose that partial lesion bypass by Pol delta represents a balance between stalling to allow for repair of mutagenic lesions by specialized repair proteins and bypass of damage to allow for successful completion of DNA synthesis by Pol delta in the presence of weakly blocking DNA adducts. (C) 2009 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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