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Lee SH, Eki T, Hurwitz J. Synthesis of DNA containing the simian virus 40 origin of replication by the combined action of DNA polymerases alpha and delta. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:7361-5. [PMID: 2571990 PMCID: PMC298061 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.19.7361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) mediates the replication of simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA by reversing the effects of a protein that inhibits the elongation reaction. Two other protein fractions, activator I and activator II, were also shown to play important roles in this process. We report that activator II isolated from HeLa cell extracts is a PCNA-dependent DNA polymerase delta that is required for efficient replication of DNA containing the SV40 origin of replication. PCNA-dependent DNA polymerase delta on a DNA singly primed phi X174 single-stranded circular DNA template required PCNA, a complex of the elongation inhibitor and activator I, and the single-stranded DNA-binding protein essential for SV40 DNA replication. DNA polymerase delta, in contrast to DNA polymerase alpha, hardly used RNA-primed DNA templates. These results indicate that both DNA polymerase alpha and delta are involved in SV40 DNA replication in vitro and their activity depends on PCNA, the elongation inhibitor, and activator I.
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- S H Lee
- Graduate Program in Molecular Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021
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Tsurimoto T, Fairman MP, Stillman B. Simian virus 40 DNA replication in vitro: identification of multiple stages of initiation. Mol Cell Biol 1989; 9:3839-49. [PMID: 2550804 PMCID: PMC362445 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.9.3839-3849.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A cell-free DNA replication system dependent upon five purified cellular proteins, one crude cellular fraction, and the simian virus 40 (SV40)-encoded large tumor antigen (T antigen) initiated and completed replication of plasmids containing the SV40 origin sequence. DNA synthesis initiated at or near the origin sequence after a time lag of approximately 10 min and then proceeded bidirectionally from the origin to yield covalently closed, monomer daughter molecules. The time lag could be completely eliminated by a preincubation of SV40 ori DNA in the presence of T antigen, a eucaryotic single-stranded DNA-binding protein (replication factor A [RF-A]), and topoisomerases I and II. In contrast, if T antigen and the template DNA were incubated alone, the time lag was only partially decreased. Kinetic analyses of origin recognition by T antigen, origin unwinding, and DNA synthesis suggest that the time lag in replication was due to the formation of a complex between T antigen and DNA called the T complex, followed by formation of a second complex called the unwound complex. Formation of the unwound complex required RF-A. When origin unwinding was coupled to DNA replication by the addition of a partially purified cellular fraction (IIA), DNA synthesis initiated at the ori sequence, but the template DNA was not completely replicated. Complete DNA replication in this system required the proliferating-cell nuclear antigen and another cellular replication factor, RF-C, during the elongation stage. In a less fractionated system, another cellular fraction, SSI, was previously shown to be necessary for reconstitution of DNA replication. The SSI fraction was required in the less purified system to antagonize the inhibitory action of another cellular protein(s). This inhibitor specifically blocked the earliest stage of DNA replication, but not the later stages. The implications of these results for the mechanisms of initiation and elongation of DNA replication are discussed.
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- T Tsurimoto
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York 11724
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Heilbronn R, zur Hausen H. A subset of herpes simplex virus replication genes induces DNA amplification within the host cell genome. J Virol 1989; 63:3683-92. [PMID: 2547992 PMCID: PMC250959 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.9.3683-3692.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Herpes simplex virus (HSV) induces DNA amplification of target genes within the host cell chromosome. To characterize the HSV genes that mediate the amplification effect, combinations of cloned DNA fragments covering the entire HSV genome were transiently transfected into simian virus 40 (SV40)-transformed hamster cells. This led to amplification of the integrated SV40 DNA sequences to a degree comparable to that observed after transfection of intact virion DNA. Transfection of combinations of subclones and of human cytomegalovirus immediate-early promoter-driven expression constructs for individual open reading frames led to the identification of six HSV genes which together were necessary and sufficient for the induction of DNA amplification: UL30 (DNA polymerase), UL29 (major DNA-binding protein), UL5, UL8, UL42, and UL52. All of these genes encode proteins necessary for HSV DNA replication. However, an additional gene coding for an HSV origin-binding protein (UL9) was required for origin-dependent HSV DNA replication but was dispensible for SV40 DNA amplification. Our results show that a subset of HSV replication genes is sufficient for the induction of DNA amplification. This opens the possibility that HSV expresses functions sufficient for DNA amplification but separate from those responsible for lytic viral growth. HSV infection may thereby induce DNA amplification within the host cell genome without killing the host by lytic viral growth. This may lead to persistence of a cell with a new genetic phenotype, which would have implications for the pathogenicity of the virus in vivo.
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- R Heilbronn
- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Kaguni LS, Olson MW. Mismatch-specific 3'----5' exonuclease associated with the mitochondrial DNA polymerase from Drosophila embryos. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:6469-73. [PMID: 2671990 PMCID: PMC297865 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.17.6469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The mitochondrial DNA polymerase from Drosophila embryos lacks dNTP turnover activity. However, a potent 3'----5' exonuclease activity can be detected by a specific assay in which the exonuclease excises mispaired nucleotides at the 3' termini of primed synthetic and natural DNA templates. The excision of a mispaired nucleotide occurs at a significantly greater rate than excision of a correctly paired nucleotide and, under conditions of DNA synthesis, hydrolysis of a mispaired terminal nucleotide occurs prior to primer extension. The 3'----5' exonuclease copurifies quantitatively with DNA polymerase gamma and cosediments with the nearly homogeneous enzyme under native conditions. These results suggest that the 3'----5' exonuclease provides a proofreading function to enhance the fidelity of DNA synthesis during Drosophila mitochondrial DNA replication.
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- L S Kaguni
- Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824
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Hammond RA, Miller MR, Gray MS, Reddy GP. Association of 3'----5' exodeoxyribonuclease activity with DNA replitase complex from S-phase Chinese hamster embryo fibroblast cells. Exp Cell Res 1989; 183:284-93. [PMID: 2767152 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(89)90389-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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DNA replitase has been described as a complex of enzymes/proteins that are associated with both DNA precursor biosynthesis and DNA replication in mammalian cells [Reddy, G. P. V., and Pardee, A. B. (1980) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77, 3312-3316]. We demonstrate for the first time a 3'----5' exodeoxyribonuclease activity is associated with the replitase complex. As much as 60% of this exonuclease activity was similar to that associated with DNA polymerase delta based upon its sensitivity to inhibition by GMP and by butyl-phenyl-deoxyguanosine triphosphate (BuPdGTP). Association of 3'----5' exonuclease activity with the DNA polymerase in the replitase complex was also demonstrated by analyzing dTTP turnover to dTMP in an in vitro DNA polymerase assay system. The DNA polymerase activity in replitase complex exhibited a sensitivity to BuPdGTP which both was similar to that of DNA replication in permeable cells and was intermediate between the BuPdGTP inhibition of purified DNA polymerases alpha and delta. These studies suggest that the replitase complex contains 3'----5' exonuclease activity associated with the DNA polymerase activity responsible for nuclear DNA replication in mammalian cells. Further studies are required to determine if these activities are at least partially attributed to DNA polymerase delta.
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- R A Hammond
- Department of Biochemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506
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Lee MY, Alejandro R, Toomey NL. Immunochemical studies of DNA polymerase delta: relationships with DNA polymerase alpha. Arch Biochem Biophys 1989; 272:1-9. [PMID: 2472116 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(89)90187-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A panel of murine hybridoma cell lines which produce antibodies against polypeptides present in human placental DNA polymerase delta preparations was developed. Eight of these antibodies were characterized by virtue of their ability to inhibit DNA polymerase delta activity and immunoblot the 170-kDa catalytic polypeptide. Six of these eight antibodies inhibit DNA polymerase delta but not DNA polymerase alpha, showing that the two proteins are distinct. However, the other two monoclonal antibodies inhibited both DNA polymerase delta and alpha activities, providing the first evidence that these two proteins have a structural relationship. In addition to antibodies against the catalytic polypeptide we also identified 11 antibodies which recognize 120-, 100-, 88-, 75-, 62-, 36-, and 22-kDa polypeptides in DNA polymerase delta preparations, suggesting that these proteins might be part of a replication complex. The antibody to the 36-kDa polypeptide was shown to be directed against proliferating cell nuclear antigen/cyclin. These antibodies should prove useful for studies aimed at distinguishing between DNA polymerases alpha and delta and for the investigation of the functional roles of DNA polymerase delta polypeptides.
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- M Y Lee
- Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101
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Liu PK, Goudreau B, Hsu GS. Aphidicolin hypersensitive mutant of Chinese hamster V79 fibroblasts that underproduces DNA polymerase-alpha antigen. SOMATIC CELL AND MOLECULAR GENETICS 1989; 15:331-44. [PMID: 2503894 DOI: 10.1007/bf01534972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Aphidicolin is a specific inhibitor of DNA polymerase-alpha and -delta from eukaryotic cells. Because of the specificity of this inhibitor, it is potentially a useful probe for the detailed studies of the function of these polymerases. DNA polymerase-alpha mutants isolated on the basis of resistance to aphidicolin have been described. We have isolated four variants that exhibit hypersensitivities to aphidicolin (Aphhs) from Chinese hamster V79/743X fibroblasts. These variants are designated aphhs-1, aphhs-2, aphhs-3 and aphhs-4. We reported here results of studies involving immunochemical characterization. The Aphhs phenotype in all mutants was stable for at least 30 days in the absence of selection pressure. The dCTP pools in the 743X and Aphhs cell lines were not significantly different. The level of total DNA polymerase activity in the crude extract from aphhs-2 cells was 30% of that observed in the parental 743X clone. We developed a method to quantitate DNA polymerase-alpha antigen at single cells in situ using monoclonal antibody SJK 132-20 and fluorescence pseudocolor image. We found that the antigen of DNA polymerase-alpha in aphhs-2 was 30-50% of that in the parental 743X cells. The underproduction of the antigen of DNA polymerase-alpha provides a basis for the observed Aphhs phenotype. Possible mechanisms for the underproduction of DNA polymerase-alpha in aphhs-2 clone are presented.
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- P K Liu
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
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Basnakian A, Banfalvi G, Sarkar N. Contribution of DNA polymerase delta to DNA replication in permeable CHO cells synchronized in S phase. Nucleic Acids Res 1989; 17:4757-67. [PMID: 2748336 PMCID: PMC318030 DOI: 10.1093/nar/17.12.4757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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To evaluate the relative contributions of DNA polymerase alpha and DNA polymerase delta in chromosome replication during the S phase of the cell cycle, we have used the permeable cell system for replication as a functional assay. We carried out the analysis of DNA polymerases both in quiescent cells stimulated to proliferate and progress through the cell cycle (monolayers) and in actively growing cells separated into progressive stages of the cell cycle by centrifugal elutriation (suspension cultures). DNA polymerase alpha was measured by using the inhibitor butylphenyl dGTP at low concentrations. Using several inhibitors such as aphidicolin, ddTTP and butylphenyl dGTP, we found that DNA polymerase alpha and delta activity were coordinately increased during S phase and declined at the end. However, DNA polymerase delta was performing about 80% of the total replication and DNA polymerase alpha performed only 20%. This high ratio of DNA polymerase delta to DNA polymerase alpha replication activity was maintained throughout S phase in two entirely different experimental approaches.
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- A Basnakian
- Department of Metabolic Regulation, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, MA 02114
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Boulet A, Simon M, Faye G, Bauer GA, Burgers PM. Structure and function of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC2 gene encoding the large subunit of DNA polymerase III. EMBO J 1989; 8:1849-54. [PMID: 2670563 PMCID: PMC401032 DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1989.tb03580.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae cdc2 mutants arrest in the S-phase of the cell cycle when grown at the non-permissive temperature, implicating this gene product as essential for DNA synthesis. The CDC2 gene has been cloned from a yeast genomic library in vector YEp13 by complementation of a cdc2 mutation. An open reading frame coding for a 1093 amino acid long protein with a calculated mol. wt of 124,518 was determined from the sequence. This putative protein shows significant homology with a class of eukaryotic DNA polymerases exemplified by human DNA polymerase alpha and herpes simplex virus DNA polymerase. Fractionation of extracts from cdc2 strains showed that these mutants lacked both the polymerase and proofreading 3'-5' exonuclease activity of DNA polymerase III, the yeast analog of mammalian DNA polymerase delta. These studies indicate that DNA polymerase III is an essential component of the DNA replication machinery.
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- A Boulet
- Institut Curie-Biologie, Centre Universitaire, Orsay, France
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Zuber M, Yasui W, Tan EM, Ryoji M. Quantitation and subcellular localization of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA/cyclin) in oocytes and eggs of Xenopus laevis. Exp Cell Res 1989; 182:384-93. [PMID: 2566509 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(89)90243-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA/cyclin) is a 36-kDa polypeptide present in the nuclei of mitotically active cells. It is known to be involved in DNA replication through an association with DNA polymerase delta. We examined the total content as well as the subcellular distribution of PCNA in the oocyte and the egg of Xenopus laevis by employing immunocytological staining and immunoblot analysis. While oocytes are not capable of replicating chromosomes, PCNA is abundant in the nucleus (about 65 ng per nucleus). The oocyte cytoplasm, on the other hand, does not contain a significant quantity of this protein. The amount of total PCNA does not change appreciably during oocyte maturation and the subsequent stages of egg cleavage. Thus, PCNA belongs to a class of proteins which are stockpiled during oogenesis in order to be utilized later for early embryogenesis.
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- M Zuber
- W.M. Keck Autoimmune Disease Center, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California 92037
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Fidelity of two retroviral reverse transcriptases during DNA-dependent DNA synthesis in vitro. Mol Cell Biol 1989. [PMID: 2469002 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.2.469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We determined the fidelity of avian myeloblastosis virus and Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptases (RTs) during DNA synthesis in vitro using the M13mp2 lacZ alpha gene as a mutational target. Both RTs commit an error approximately once for every 30,000 nucleotides polymerized. DNA sequence analysis of mutants generated in a forward mutation assay capable of detecting many types of errors demonstrated that avian myeloblastosis virus RT produced a variety of different mutations. The majority (58%) were single-base substitutions; all of which resulted from the misincorporation of either dAMP or dGMP. Minus-one frameshifts were also common, composing about 30% of the mutations. In addition to single-base events, eight mutants contained sequence changes involving from 2 to 59 bases. The frequency of these mutants suggests that, at least during DNA synthesis in vitro, RTs also commit errors by mechanisms other than classical base miscoding and misalignment. We examined the ability of RTs to synthesize DNA from a mismatched primer terminus at a sequence where the mismatched base was complementary to the next base in the template. Unlike cellular DNA polymerases which polymerize from the mismatched template-primer, RTs preferred to polymerize from a rearranged template-primer containing a matched terminal base pair and an unpaired base in the template strand. The unusual preference for this substrate suggests that the interactions between RTs and the template-primer are different from those of cellular DNA polymerases. The overall error rate of RT in vitro is sufficient to account for the estimated mutation rate of these viruses.
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Purification of a cellular replication factor, RF-C, that is required for coordinated synthesis of leading and lagging strands during simian virus 40 DNA replication in vitro. Mol Cell Biol 1989. [PMID: 2565531 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.2.609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Cell extracts (S100) derived from human 293 cells were separated into five fractions by phosphocellulose chromatography and monitored for their ability to support simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA replication in vitro in the presence of purified SV40 T antigen. Three fractions, designated I, IIA, and IIC, were essential. Fraction IIC contained the known replication factors topoisomerases I and II, but in addition contained a novel replication factor called RF-C. The RF-C activity, assayed in the presence of I, IIA, and excess amounts of purified topoisomerases, was detected in both cytosol and nuclear fractions, but was more abundant in the latter fraction. RF-C was purified from the 293 cell nuclear fraction to near homogeneity by conventional column chromatography. The reconstituted reaction mix containing purified RF-C could replicate SV40 origin-containing plasmid DNA more efficiently than could the S100 extract, and the products were predominantly completely replicated, monomer molecules. Interestingly, in the absence of RF-C, early replicative intermediates accumulated and subsequent elongation was aberrant. Hybridization studies with strand-specific, single-stranded M13-SV40 DNAs showed that in the absence of RF-C, abnormal DNA synthesis occurred preferentially on the lagging strand, and leading-strand replication was inefficient. These products closely resembled those previously observed for SV40 DNA replication in vitro in the absence of proliferating-cell nuclear antigen. These results suggest that an elongation complex containing RF-C and proliferating-cell nuclear antigen is assembled after formation of the first nascent strands at the replication origin. Subsequent synthesis of leading and lagging strands at a eucaryotic DNA replication fork can be distinguished by different requirements for multiple replication components, but we suggest that even though the two polymerases function asymmetrically, they normally progress coordinately.
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Perrino FW, Loeb LA. Proofreading by the epsilon subunit of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III increases the fidelity of calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:3085-8. [PMID: 2524067 PMCID: PMC287069 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.9.3085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Addition of the 3'----5' proofreading exonuclease, epsilon subunit of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III, to DNA polymerase alpha from calf thymus has been studied. Alone, calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha terminates in vitro DNA synthesis upon insertion of noncomplementary nucleotides. Upon addition of the epsilon subunit, DNA polymerase alpha elongates the newly synthesized DNA as a result of hydrolysis of the 3'-terminal mispair. The fidelity of DNA polymerase alpha in vitro is increased 7-fold by addition of the exonuclease. The functional interaction between DNA polymerase alpha and the epsilon subunit is independent of any detectable physical association. This suggests that a mechanism for proofreading could exist in mammalian cells involving sequential catalysis by DNA polymerase alpha excision of errors by a separate 3'----5' exonuclease, and further elongation onto correctly base-paired 3' termini by DNA polymerase alpha.
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- F W Perrino
- Joseph Gottstein Memorial Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Involvement of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (cyclin) in DNA replication in living cells. Mol Cell Biol 1989. [PMID: 2564636 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.1.57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) (also called cyclin) is known to stimulate the activity of DNA polymerase delta but not the other DNA polymerases in vitro. We injected a human autoimmune antibody against PCNA into unfertilized eggs of Xenopus laevis and examined the effects of this antibody on the replication of injected plasmid DNA as well as egg chromosomes. The anti-PCNA antibody inhibited plasmid replication by up to 67%, demonstrating that PCNA is involved in plasmid replication in living cells. This result further implies that DNA polymerase delta is necessary for plasmid replication in vivo. Anti-PCNA antibody alone did not block plasmid replication completely, but the residual replication was abolished by coinjection of a monoclonal antibody against DNA polymerase alpha. Anti-DNA polymerase alpha alone inhibited plasmid replication by 63%. Thus, DNA polymerase alpha is also required for plasmid replication in this system. In similar studies on the replication of egg chromosomes, the inhibition by anti-PCNA antibody was only 30%, while anti-DNA polymerase alpha antibody blocked 73% of replication. We concluded that the replication machineries of chromosomes and plasmid differ in their relative content of DNA polymerase delta. In addition, we obtained evidence through the use of phenylbutyl deoxyguanosine, an inhibitor of DNA polymerase alpha, that the structure of DNA polymerase alpha holoenzyme for chromosome replication is significantly different from that for plasmid replication.
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Spadari S, Montecucco A, Pedrali-Noy G, Ciarrocchi G, Focher F, Hübscher U. A double-loop model for the replication of eukaryotic DNA. Mutat Res 1989; 219:147-56. [PMID: 2739671 DOI: 10.1016/0921-8734(89)90009-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Coordinated DNA synthesis of both strands at the replication fork by a fixed 'replisome' may cause dynamic and topological problems. Based upon known properties of DNA helicase, DNA primase and DNA topoisomerases, and on novel properties of DNA polymerases and DNA ligase, we propose a 'double-loop' model for the replication of eukaryotic DNA that could minimize such problems.
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- S Spadari
- Istituto di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica, CNR, Pavia, Italy
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Suzuka I, Daidoji H, Matsuoka M, Kadowaki K, Takasaki Y, Nakane PK, Moriuchi T. Gene for proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (DNA polymerase delta auxiliary protein) is present in both mammalian and higher plant genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:3189-93. [PMID: 2566167 PMCID: PMC287092 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.9.3189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA; also called cyclin) was originally described in proliferating mammalian cells as a nuclear protein with an apparent Mr of 33,000-36,000 and recently was found to be a DNA polymerase delta auxiliary protein. To elucidate whether PCNA/cyclin is a universal protein necessary for proliferation of eukaryotes, a search was conducted for PCNA/cyclin homologues in higher plants. In Southern blot-hybridization analysis, a rat PCNA/cyclin cDNA probe hybridized with homologous sequences in genomic DNAs from rice, soybean, and tobacco. A PCNA/cyclin-related molecular clone (pCJ-1) was isolated from rice DNA and was partially sequenced. The pCJ-1 probe hybridized with a 1.2-kilobase transcript in RNA from rice root tips and shoots. Immunoblot analysis of the soluble extract of soybean root tips with monospecific anti-PCNA/cyclin identified an immunoreactive protein with an apparent Mr of 34,000. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed the presence of an immunoreactive PCNA/cyclin protein in the nuclei of cells in the meristem of soybean root tips. The highly homologous nature of the gene for PCNA/cyclin throughout the animal and plant kingdoms suggests that the product of the gene plays an essential role in DNA replication in eukaryotes.
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- I Suzuka
- Department of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Agrobiological Resources, Tsukuba Science City, Japan
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Wong SW, Syvaoja J, Tan CK, Downey KM, So AG, Linn S, Wang TS. DNA Polymerases α and δ Are Immunologically and Structurally Distinct. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)83638-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Purification of DNA Polymerase II, a Distinct DNA Polymerase, from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)83384-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Focher F, Gassmann M, Hafkemeyer P, Ferrari E, Spadari S, Hübscher U. Calf thymus DNA polymerase delta independent of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). Nucleic Acids Res 1989; 17:1805-21. [PMID: 2564661 PMCID: PMC317524 DOI: 10.1093/nar/17.5.1805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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DNA polymerase delta from calf thymus was purified under conditions that minimized proteolysis to a specific activity of 27,000 units/mg. The four step isolation procedure included phosphocellulose, hydroxyapatite, heparin-Sepharose and FPLC-MonoS. This enzyme consists of four polypeptides with Mr of 140, 125, 48 and 40 kilodaltons. Velocity gradient sedimentation in glycerol removed the 48 kDa polypeptide while the other three sedimented with the DNA polymerase activity. The biochemical properties of the three subunit enzyme and the copurification of 3'----5' exonuclease activity were typical for a bona fide DNA polymerase delta. Tryptic peptide analysis showed that the 140 kDa polypeptide was different from the catalytic 180 kDa polypeptide of calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha. Both high Mr polypeptides (140 and 125 kDa) were catalytically active as analysed in an activity gel. Four templates were used by DNA polymerase delta with different preferences, namely poly(dA)/oligo(dT)12-18 much much greater than activated DNA greater than poly(dA-dT) greater than primed single-stranded M13DNA. Calf thymus proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) could not stimulated this DNA polymerase delta in any step of the isolation procedure. If tested on poly(dA)/oligo(dT)12-18 (base ratio 10:1), PCNA had no stimulatory effect on DNA polymerase delta when tested with low enzyme DNA ratio nor did it change the kinetic behaviour of the enzyme. DNA polymerase delta itself did not contain PCNA. The enzyme had an intrinsic processivity of several thousand bases, when tested either on the homopolymer poly(dA)/oligo(dT)12-18 (base ratio 64:1) or on primed single-stranded M13DNA. Contrary to DNA polymerase alpha, no pausing sites were seen with DNA polymerase delta. Under optimal in vitro replication conditions the enzyme could convert primed single-stranded circular M13 DNA of 7,200 bases to its double-stranded form in less than 10 min. This supports that a PCNA independent DNA polymerase delta exists in calf thymus in addition to a PCNA dependent enzyme (Lee, M.Y.W.T. et al. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 1906-1913).
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- F Focher
- Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, University of Zürich-Irchel, Switzerland
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Sitney KC, Budd ME, Campbell JL. DNA polymerase III, a second essential DNA polymerase, is encoded by the S. cerevisiae CDC2 gene. Cell 1989; 56:599-605. [PMID: 2645055 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(89)90582-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Three nuclear DNA polymerases have been described in yeast: DNA polymerases I, II, and III. DNA polymerase I is encoded by the POL1 gene and is essential for DNA replication. Since the S. cerevisiae CDC2 gene has recently been shown to have DNA sequence similarity to the active site regions of other known DNA polymerases, but to nevertheless be different from DNA polymerase I, we examined cdc2 mutants for the presence of DNA polymerases II and III. DNA polymerase II was not affected by the cdc2 mutation. DNA polymerase III activity was significantly reduced in the cdc2-1 cell extracts. We conclude that the CDC2 gene encodes yeast DNA polymerase III and that DNA polymerase III, therefore, represents a second essential DNA polymerase in yeast.
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- K C Sitney
- Braun Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125
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Characterization of a large form of DNA polymerase δ from HeLa cells that is insensitive to proliferating cell nuclear antigen. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)81640-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Roberts JD, Preston BD, Johnston LA, Soni A, Loeb LA, Kunkel TA. Fidelity of two retroviral reverse transcriptases during DNA-dependent DNA synthesis in vitro. Mol Cell Biol 1989; 9:469-76. [PMID: 2469002 PMCID: PMC362622 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.2.469-476.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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We determined the fidelity of avian myeloblastosis virus and Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptases (RTs) during DNA synthesis in vitro using the M13mp2 lacZ alpha gene as a mutational target. Both RTs commit an error approximately once for every 30,000 nucleotides polymerized. DNA sequence analysis of mutants generated in a forward mutation assay capable of detecting many types of errors demonstrated that avian myeloblastosis virus RT produced a variety of different mutations. The majority (58%) were single-base substitutions; all of which resulted from the misincorporation of either dAMP or dGMP. Minus-one frameshifts were also common, composing about 30% of the mutations. In addition to single-base events, eight mutants contained sequence changes involving from 2 to 59 bases. The frequency of these mutants suggests that, at least during DNA synthesis in vitro, RTs also commit errors by mechanisms other than classical base miscoding and misalignment. We examined the ability of RTs to synthesize DNA from a mismatched primer terminus at a sequence where the mismatched base was complementary to the next base in the template. Unlike cellular DNA polymerases which polymerize from the mismatched template-primer, RTs preferred to polymerize from a rearranged template-primer containing a matched terminal base pair and an unpaired base in the template strand. The unusual preference for this substrate suggests that the interactions between RTs and the template-primer are different from those of cellular DNA polymerases. The overall error rate of RT in vitro is sufficient to account for the estimated mutation rate of these viruses.
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- J D Roberts
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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Tsurimoto T, Stillman B. Purification of a cellular replication factor, RF-C, that is required for coordinated synthesis of leading and lagging strands during simian virus 40 DNA replication in vitro. Mol Cell Biol 1989; 9:609-19. [PMID: 2565531 PMCID: PMC362638 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.2.609-619.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Cell extracts (S100) derived from human 293 cells were separated into five fractions by phosphocellulose chromatography and monitored for their ability to support simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA replication in vitro in the presence of purified SV40 T antigen. Three fractions, designated I, IIA, and IIC, were essential. Fraction IIC contained the known replication factors topoisomerases I and II, but in addition contained a novel replication factor called RF-C. The RF-C activity, assayed in the presence of I, IIA, and excess amounts of purified topoisomerases, was detected in both cytosol and nuclear fractions, but was more abundant in the latter fraction. RF-C was purified from the 293 cell nuclear fraction to near homogeneity by conventional column chromatography. The reconstituted reaction mix containing purified RF-C could replicate SV40 origin-containing plasmid DNA more efficiently than could the S100 extract, and the products were predominantly completely replicated, monomer molecules. Interestingly, in the absence of RF-C, early replicative intermediates accumulated and subsequent elongation was aberrant. Hybridization studies with strand-specific, single-stranded M13-SV40 DNAs showed that in the absence of RF-C, abnormal DNA synthesis occurred preferentially on the lagging strand, and leading-strand replication was inefficient. These products closely resembled those previously observed for SV40 DNA replication in vitro in the absence of proliferating-cell nuclear antigen. These results suggest that an elongation complex containing RF-C and proliferating-cell nuclear antigen is assembled after formation of the first nascent strands at the replication origin. Subsequent synthesis of leading and lagging strands at a eucaryotic DNA replication fork can be distinguished by different requirements for multiple replication components, but we suggest that even though the two polymerases function asymmetrically, they normally progress coordinately.
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- T Tsurimoto
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York 11724
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Wold MS, Weinberg DH, Virshup DM, Li JJ, Kelly TJ. Identification of cellular proteins required for simian virus 40 DNA replication. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)81684-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Zuber M, Tan EM, Ryoji M. Involvement of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (cyclin) in DNA replication in living cells. Mol Cell Biol 1989; 9:57-66. [PMID: 2564636 PMCID: PMC362145 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.1.57-66.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) (also called cyclin) is known to stimulate the activity of DNA polymerase delta but not the other DNA polymerases in vitro. We injected a human autoimmune antibody against PCNA into unfertilized eggs of Xenopus laevis and examined the effects of this antibody on the replication of injected plasmid DNA as well as egg chromosomes. The anti-PCNA antibody inhibited plasmid replication by up to 67%, demonstrating that PCNA is involved in plasmid replication in living cells. This result further implies that DNA polymerase delta is necessary for plasmid replication in vivo. Anti-PCNA antibody alone did not block plasmid replication completely, but the residual replication was abolished by coinjection of a monoclonal antibody against DNA polymerase alpha. Anti-DNA polymerase alpha alone inhibited plasmid replication by 63%. Thus, DNA polymerase alpha is also required for plasmid replication in this system. In similar studies on the replication of egg chromosomes, the inhibition by anti-PCNA antibody was only 30%, while anti-DNA polymerase alpha antibody blocked 73% of replication. We concluded that the replication machineries of chromosomes and plasmid differ in their relative content of DNA polymerase delta. In addition, we obtained evidence through the use of phenylbutyl deoxyguanosine, an inhibitor of DNA polymerase alpha, that the structure of DNA polymerase alpha holoenzyme for chromosome replication is significantly different from that for plasmid replication.
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- M Zuber
- W. M. Keck Autoimmune Disease Center, La Jolla, California
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Females of the human species live longer than males, and the longevity differential is probably not entirely explained by reasons which are presently obvious. Genotypic sex has long been suspected to affect longevity to the advantage of the female. Several recent findings about the X and Y chromosomes must be reckoned with in considering determinants of longevity which derive from genotypic sex. The advantages of having two X chromosomes are apparent, notwithstanding X-chromosome inactivation. Not only can some cells compensate for biosynthetic deficiencies of others, but also cell selection according to which X chromosome is active can occur during development according to cell viability and proliferative capacity. It has recently been observed that at least some genes on inactive X chromosomes are reactivated late in life. Details of the reactivation process must be studied to determine its significance and the effects of the process on late life survival. The recent mapping of the catalytic polypeptide of DNA-polymerase-alpha to the X chromosome calls attention to a new property of the genotype which could affect the basic ability of cells to proliferate. It is likely that this enzyme, perhaps in concert with DNA-polymerase-delta, is required for DNA replication, suggesting that two alleles for this enzyme and cell selection within the female phenotypic mosaic for DNA replication may provide a sex-linked determinant of cell proliferation which could be advantageous in late life. Much remains to be learned about the Y chromosome, although there are early results consistent with a determinant of longevity on that chromosome which operates to the male disadvantage and probably does not involve sex hormones. The genotype may be a significant determinant of longevity in humans even if it does not appear to be so in non-human animals, because causes of death are different. Determinants of longevity are based on susceptibility or vulnerability to the causes and diseases of mortality, and these differ in different species.
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- D W Smith
- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611
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Tomilin NV, Aprelikova ON. Uracil-DNA glycosylases and DNA uracil repair. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1989; 114:125-79. [PMID: 2500405 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)60860-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- N V Tomilin
- Laboratory of Chromosome Stability, Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Leningrad
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Knopf CW, Weisshart K. The herpes simplex virus DNA polymerase: analysis of the functional domains. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 951:298-314. [PMID: 2850009 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(88)90100-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The structural and functional organization of the herpes simplex virus type I (HSV-1) DNA polymerase enzyme of strain ANG was studied by a combination of sequence and immunobiochemical analyses. Comparison of the HSV-1 ANG DNA polymerase sequence with those of pro- and eukaryotic DNA polymerases resulted in the allocation of eleven conserved regions within the HSV-1 DNA polymerase. From the analysis of all currently identified mutations of temperature-sensitive and drug-resistant HSV-1 DNA polymerase mutants as well as from the degree of conservancy observed, it could be deduced that the amino-acid residues 597-961, comprising the homologous sequence regions IV-IX, constitute the major structural components of the catalytic domain of the enzyme which should accommodate the sites for polymerizing and 3'-to-5' exonucleolytic functions. Further insight into the structural organization was gained by the use of polyclonal antibodies responding specifically to the N-terminal, central and C-terminal polypeptide domains of the ANG polymerase. Each of the antisera was able to immunostain as well as to immunoprecipitate a viral polypeptide of 132 +/- 5 kDa that corresponded well to the molecular mass of 136 kDa predicted from the coding sequences. Enzyme-binding and neutralization studies confirmed that both functions, polymerase and 3'-to-5' exonuclease, are intimately related to each other, and revealed that, in addition to the sequences of the proposed catalytic domain, the very C-terminal sequences, except for amino-acid residues 1072-1146, are important for the catalytic functions of the enzyme, most likely effecting the binding to DNA.
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- C W Knopf
- Institut für Virusforschung, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, F.R.G
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Gassmann M, Focher F, Buhk HJ, Ferrari E, Spadari S, Hübscher U. Replication of single-stranded porcine circovirus DNA by DNA polymerases alpha and delta. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 951:280-9. [PMID: 3207761 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(88)90098-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Porcine circovirus is the only mammalian DNA virus so far known to contain a single-stranded circular genome (Tischer et al. (1982) Nature 295, 64-66). Replication of its small viral DNA (1.76 kb) appears to be dependent on cellular enzymes expressed during S-phase of the cell cycle (Tischer et al. (1987) Arch. Virol. 96, 39-57). In this paper we have exploited the porcine circovirus genome to probe for in vitro initiation and elongation of DNA replication by different preparations of calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha and delta as well as by a partially purified preparation from pig thymus. The results indicated that three different purification fractions of calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha and one from pig thymus initiate DNA synthesis at several sites on the porcine circovirus DNA. It appears that the sites at which DNA primase synthesizes primers are not entirely random. Subsequent DNA elongation by a highly purified DNA polymerase alpha holoenzyme which had been isolated by the criterion of replicating single-stranded M13 DNA (Ottiger et al. (1987) Nucleic Acids Res. 15, 4789-4807) is very efficient. Complete conversion to the double-stranded form is obtained in less than 1 min. When the DNA synthesis by DNA polymerase alpha is blocked with the DNA polymerase alpha specific monoclonal antibody SJK 132-20 after initiation by DNA primase, DNA polymerase delta can efficiently replicate from the primers. This in vitro DNA replication system may be used in analogy to the bacteriophage systems in E. coli to study initiation and elongation of DNA replication.
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- M Gassmann
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Biochemie, Universität Zürich-Irchel, Switzerland
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Kunkel TA, Bebenek K. Recent studies of the fidelity of DNA synthesis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 951:1-15. [PMID: 2847793 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(88)90020-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- T A Kunkel
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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Toschi L, Bravo R. Changes in cyclin/proliferating cell nuclear antigen distribution during DNA repair synthesis. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1988; 107:1623-8. [PMID: 2903166 PMCID: PMC2115310 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.107.5.1623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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UV irradiation of quiescent human fibroblasts immediately triggers the appearance of the nuclear protein cyclin/proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) as detected by indirect immunofluorescent staining after methanol fixation. This was found to be independent of new synthesis of cyclin/PCNA by two-dimensional gel analysis and cycloheximide treatment. The intensity of the immunofluorescent staining of cyclin/PCNA observed in UV-irradiated cells corresponded with the UV dose used and with the DNA repair synthesis detected by autoradiography. The nuclear staining remains as long as DNA repair activity is detected in the cells. By extracting the UV-irradiated quiescent cells with Triton X-100 and fixing with formaldehyde, it was possible to demonstrate by indirect immunofluorescence rapid changes in the cyclin/PCNA population after irradiation, a small proportion (5-10%) of which is tightly associated to the nucleus as determined by high salt extraction. By incubating at low temperature and depleting the ATP pools of the cells before UV irradiation, we have demonstrated that the changes in cyclin/PCNA distribution observed involve at least two different nuclear associations.
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- L Toschi
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
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We have measured the fidelity of bidirectional, semiconservative DNA synthesis by a human DNA replication complex in vitro. Replication was performed by extracts of HeLa cells in the presence of simian virus 40 (SV40) large tumor antigen by using a double-stranded phage M13mp2 DNA template containing the SV40 origin of replication and either of two different target sequences for scoring mutations in the lacZ alpha-complementation gene, which encodes the alpha region (specifying the amino-terminal portion) of beta-galactosidase. Replicative synthesis was substantially more accurate than synthesis by the human DNA polymerase alpha-DNA primase complex purified from HeLa cell extracts by immunoaffinity chromatography, suggesting that additional factors or activities in the extract may increase fidelity during bidirectional replication. However, by using a sensitive opal codon reversion assay, single-base substitution errors were readily detected in the replication products at frequencies significantly higher than estimated spontaneous mutation rates in vivo. These data suggest that additional fidelity factors may be present during chromosomal replication in vivo and/or that the fidelity of replication alone does not account for the low spontaneous mutation rates in eukaryotes.
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- J D Roberts
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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Bauer GA, Burgers PM. The yeast analog of mammalian cyclin/proliferating-cell nuclear antigen interacts with mammalian DNA polymerase delta. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:7506-10. [PMID: 2902631 PMCID: PMC282220 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.20.7506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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DNA polymerase III from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is analogous to the mammalian DNA polymerase delta by several criteria, including an increased synthetic activity on poly(dA).oligo(dT) (40:1 nucleotide ratio) in the presence of calf thymus proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), or cyclin. This stimulation assay has been used to purify the yeast analog of PCNA/cyclin (yPCNA) to homogeneity. yPCNA is a trimer or tetramer (Mr approximately 82,000) of identical subunits with a denatured Mr of 26,000. On a molar basis yPCNA and calf thymus PCNA/cyclin are equally active in stimulating DNA synthesis by DNA polymerase III. About 10 times more yPCNA than calf thymus PCNA/cyclin is needed, however, to stimulate calf thymus DNA polymerase delta, and the degree of stimulation obtained at saturating levels of yPCNA is a factor of 2-3 less than with calf thymus PCNA/cyclin. Both stimulatory proteins exert their effect in an identical fashion, i.e., by increasing the processivity of the DNA polymerase. Yeast DNA polymerases I and II and calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha are not stimulated by yPCNA. Treatment of logarithmic-phase cells with hydroxyurea blocks them in the S phase and produces a 4- to 5-fold increase in yPCNA.
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- G A Bauer
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110
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Focher F, Spadari S, Ginelli B, Hottiger M, Gassmann M, Hübscher U. Calf thymus DNA polymerase delta: purification, biochemical and functional properties of the enzyme after its separation from DNA polymerase alpha, a DNA dependent ATPase and proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Nucleic Acids Res 1988; 16:6279-95. [PMID: 2899882 PMCID: PMC338295 DOI: 10.1093/nar/16.14.6279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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We have established a novel procedure to purify calf thymus DNA polymerase delta from cytoplasmic extracts. The enzyme has typical properties of DNA polymerase delta including a 3' - greater than 5' exonuclease activity and efficiently replicates natural occurring genomes such as primed single-stranded M13 DNA and single-stranded porcine circovirus DNA, this last one thanks to an associated or contaminating primase activity. A processivity of at least a thousand bases was evident and this in the apparent absence of proliferating cell nuclear antigen. The enzyme was purified through a procedure that allows the simultaneous isolation of DNA polymerase delta, DNA polymerase alpha-primase and a DNA dependent ATPase. All these enzymes coeluted from a phosphocellulose column. After chromatography on hydroxylapatite DNA polymerase delta separated from the coeluting DNA polymerase alpha and DNA dependent ATPase. Separation of the latter two was achieved on heparin-Sepharose. DNA polymerase delta was further purified by heparin-Sepharose and fast protein liquid chromatography. Purified DNA polymerase delta was resistant to the DNA polymerase alpha inhibitors BuPdGTP and BuAdATP and did not react with DNA polymerase alpha monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. Based on this isolation protocol we can start to test biochemically the hypothesis whether DNA polymerase delta and DNA polymerase alpha might act coordinately at the replication fork as leading and lagging strand replicases, respectively.
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- F Focher
- Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, University of Zürich-Irchel, Switzerland
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Kaguni LS, Lehman IR. Eukaryotic DNA polymerase-primase: structure, mechanism and function. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 950:87-101. [PMID: 3289619 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(88)90001-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- L S Kaguni
- Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing
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So AG, Downey KM. Mammalian DNA polymerases alpha and delta: current status in DNA replication. Biochemistry 1988; 27:4591-5. [PMID: 3048386 DOI: 10.1021/bi00413a001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- A G So
- Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101
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Hohorst HJ, Bielicki L, Müller K, Voelcker G. Low toxicity cancer chemotherapy by suicide inactivation of DNA polymerase alpha holoenzyme: first results with new thiazolidinyl- and perhydrothiazinyl-ethyl-N-mustard-phosphamide esters. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 1988; 114:309-11. [PMID: 3384844 DOI: 10.1007/bf00405840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Thiazolidinyl- and perhydrothiazinyl-ethyl-N-mustard-phosphamide esters were designed to act as highly specific suicide inactivators of DNA polymerase alpha holoenzymes. Acute and subacute toxicity of these drugs in mice was very small. By daily i.p. injection, on day 0-4 mice were cured of P 388 lymphatic leukaemia with no depression of blood leucocytes. The findings suggest that suicide inactivators of DNA polymerase alpha holoenzyme may be promising drugs for low toxicity cancer chemotherapy.
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- H J Hohorst
- Gustav-Embden-Zentrum of Biological Chemistry, University of Frankfurt/Main, Federal Republic of Germany
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Leonard JC, Leonard RC, Thompson KH. Arabinofuranosyl nucleosides induce common fragile sites. Hum Genet 1988; 79:157-62. [PMID: 3134289 DOI: 10.1007/bf00280556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The capacities for fragile site induction of three inhibitors of semiconservative DNA synthesis and DNA repair synthesis, aphidicolin, arabinofuranosyl cytosine, and arabinofuranosyl adenosine were compared. Aphidicolin is known to induce type 4 fragile sites, the largest recognized group of common fragile sites. Although the modes of action of these inhibitors vary, both arabinofuranosyl analogs induce type 4 aphidicolin-sensitive fragile sites. An analysis of variance demonstrates that the three inhibitors are not equally capable of inducing significant breakage (P less than 0.01) at all type 4 fragile sites. Induction of type 4 fragile sites appears to be a general consequence of inhibition of DNA polymerization.
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- J C Leonard
- Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
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Prelich G, Stillman B. Coordinated leading and lagging strand synthesis during SV40 DNA replication in vitro requires PCNA. Cell 1988; 53:117-26. [PMID: 2894900 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(88)90493-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 331] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is a cell cycle and growth regulated protein required for replication of SV40 DNA in vitro. Its function was investigated by comparison of the replication products synthesized in its presence or absence. In the completely reconstituted replication system that contains PCNA, DNA synthesis initiates at the origin and proceeds bidirectionally on both leading and lagging strands around the template DNA to yield duplex, circular daughter molecules. In contrast, in the absence of PCNA, early replicative intermediates containing short nascent strands accumulate. Replication forks continue bidirectionally from the origin, but surprisingly, only lagging strand products are synthesized. Thus two stages of DNA synthesis have been defined, with the second stage requiring PCNA for coordinated leading and lagging strand synthesis at the replication fork. We suggest that during eukaryotic chromosome replication there is a switch to a PCNA-dependent elongation stage that requires two distinct DNA polymerases.
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- G Prelich
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York 11724
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Kunkel TA, Soni A. Exonucleolytic proofreading enhances the fidelity of DNA synthesis by chick embryo DNA polymerase-gamma. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)68947-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Focher F, Ferrari E, Spadari S, Hübscher U. Do DNA polymerases delta and alpha act coordinately as leading and lagging strand replicases? FEBS Lett 1988; 229:6-10. [PMID: 3345838 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(88)80786-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The activity ratio of DNA polymerases delta and alpha in calf thymus was found to be invariably 1:1, irrespective of extraction procedure (8 types) and subcellular localization (cytoplasm, nucleus and microsomes). This was established by separation of the two forms by hydroxyapatite chromatography and by their response to specific inhibitors and monoclonal antibodies. This finding supports the dimeric DNA polymerase model [(1980) J. Biol. Chem. 255, 4290-4303], which proposes that DNA polymerases delta and alpha act coordinately as leading and lagging strand enzymes, respectively, at the replication fork.
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- F Focher
- Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, University of Zürich-Irchel, Switzerland
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Nishida C, Reinhard P, Linn S. DNA repair synthesis in human fibroblasts requires DNA polymerase delta. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)57421-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Wong SW, Wahl AF, Yuan PM, Arai N, Pearson BE, Arai K, Korn D, Hunkapiller MW, Wang TS. Human DNA polymerase alpha gene expression is cell proliferation dependent and its primary structure is similar to both prokaryotic and eukaryotic replicative DNA polymerases. EMBO J 1988; 7:37-47. [PMID: 3359994 PMCID: PMC454213 DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1988.tb02781.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 275] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We have isolated cDNA clones encoding the human DNA polymerase alpha catalytic polypeptide. Studies of the human DNA polymerase alpha steady-state mRNA levels in quiescent cells stimulated to proliferate, or normal cells compared to transformed cells, demonstrate that the polymerase alpha mRNA, like its enzymatic activity and de novo protein synthesis, positively correlates with cell proliferation and transformation. Analysis of the deduced 1462-amino-acid sequence reveals six regions of striking similarity to yeast DNA polymerase I and DNA polymerases of bacteriophages T4 and phi 29, herpes family viruses, vaccinia virus and adenovirus. Three of these conserved regions appear to comprise the functional active site required for deoxynucleotide interaction. Two putative DNA interacting domains are also identified.
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- S W Wong
- Department of Pathology, Stanford Medical School, Stanford University, CA 94305
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Celis JE, Madsen P, Celis A, Nielsen HV, Gesser B. Cyclin (PCNA, auxiliary protein of DNA polymerase delta) is a central component of the pathway(s) leading to DNA replication and cell division. FEBS Lett 1987; 220:1-7. [PMID: 2886367 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(87)80865-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Cyclin, also known as PCNA or the auxiliary protein of mammalian DNA polymerase delta, is a stable cell cycle regulated (synthesized mainly in S-phase) nuclear protein of apparent Mr 36,000 whose rate of synthesis correlates directly with the proliferative state of normal cultured cells and tissues. Cyclin (PCNA) is absent or present in very low amounts in normal non-dividing cells and tissues, but it is synthesized in variable amounts by proliferating cells of both normal and transformed origin. All available information indicates that this ubiquitous and tightly regulated DNA replication protein is a central component of the pathway(s) leading to DNA replication and cell division.
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Cotterill SM, Reyland ME, Loeb LA, Lehman IR. A cryptic proofreading 3'----5' exonuclease associated with the polymerase subunit of the DNA polymerase-primase from Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1987; 84:5635-9. [PMID: 3112771 PMCID: PMC298917 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.16.5635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The DNA polymerase-primase from Drosophila lacks 3'----5' exonuclease activity. However, a potent exonuclease can be detected after separating the 182-kDa polymerase subunit from the other three subunits of the enzyme (73, 60, and 50 kDa) by glycerol gradient sedimentation in the presence of 50% ethylene glycol. The exonuclease activity cosediments with the polymerase subunit, suggesting that the two activities reside in the same polypeptide. The 3'----5' exonuclease excises mismatched bases at the 3' termini of primed synthetic and natural DNA templates. Excision of a mispaired base at the 3' terminus occurs at a 10-fold greater rate than excision of the correctly paired base. When replication fidelity is measured by the bacteriophage phi X174 am3 reversion assay, the isolated polymerase subunit is at least 100-fold more accurate than either the intact polymerase-primase or a complex of the 182- and 73-kDa subunits. These results suggest that the 3'----5' exonuclease functions as a proofreading enzyme during Drosophila DNA replication in vitro and very likely in vivo.
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