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Arzumanyan GA, Gabriel KN, Ravikumar A, Javanpour AA, Liu CC. Mutually Orthogonal DNA Replication Systems In Vivo. ACS Synth Biol 2018; 7:1722-1729. [PMID: 29969238 PMCID: PMC6177532 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The yeast cytoplasmically localized pGKL1/TP-DNAP1 plasmid/DNA polymerase pair forms an orthogonal DNA replication system whose mutation rate can be drastically increased without influencing genomic replication, thereby supporting in vivo continuous evolution. Here, we report that the pGKL2/TP-DNAP2 plasmid/DNA polymerase pair forms a second orthogonal replication system. We show that custom genes can be encoded and expressed from pGKL2, that error-prone TP-DNAP2s can be engineered, and that pGKL2 replication by TP-DNAP2 is both orthogonal to genomic replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and mutually orthogonal with pGKL1 replication by TP-DNAP1. This demonstration of two mutually orthogonal DNA replication systems with tunable error rates and properties should enable new applications in cell-based continuous evolution, genetic recording, and synthetic biology at large.
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- Garri A Arzumanyan
- Department of Biomedical Engineering , University of California , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry , University of California , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , University of California , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , University of California , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , University of California , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
- Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry , University of California , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
- Department of Chemistry , University of California , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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Salas M, Holguera I, Redrejo-Rodríguez M, de Vega M. DNA-Binding Proteins Essential for Protein-Primed Bacteriophage Φ29 DNA Replication. Front Mol Biosci 2016; 3:37. [PMID: 27547754 PMCID: PMC4974454 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2016.00037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Bacillus subtilis phage Φ29 has a linear, double-stranded DNA 19 kb long with an inverted terminal repeat of 6 nucleotides and a protein covalently linked to the 5′ ends of the DNA. This protein, called terminal protein (TP), is the primer for the initiation of replication, a reaction catalyzed by the viral DNA polymerase at the two DNA ends. The DNA polymerase further elongates the nascent DNA chain in a processive manner, coupling strand displacement with elongation. The viral protein p5 is a single-stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) that binds to the single strands generated by strand displacement during the elongation process. Viral protein p6 is a double-stranded DNA binding protein (DBP) that preferentially binds to the origins of replication at the Φ29 DNA ends and is required for the initiation of replication. Both SSB and DBP are essential for Φ29 DNA amplification. This review focuses on the role of these phage DNA-binding proteins in Φ29 DNA replication both in vitro and in vivo, as well as on the implication of several B. subtilis DNA-binding proteins in different processes of the viral cycle. We will revise the enzymatic activities of the Φ29 DNA polymerase: TP-deoxynucleotidylation, processive DNA polymerization coupled to strand displacement, 3′–5′ exonucleolysis and pyrophosphorolysis. The resolution of the Φ29 DNA polymerase structure has shed light on the translocation mechanism and the determinants responsible for processivity and strand displacement. These two properties have made Φ29 DNA polymerase one of the main enzymes used in the current DNA amplification technologies. The determination of the structure of Φ29 TP revealed the existence of three domains: the priming domain, where the primer residue Ser232, as well as Phe230, involved in the determination of the initiating nucleotide, are located, the intermediate domain, involved in DNA polymerase binding, and the N-terminal domain, responsible for DNA binding and localization of the TP at the bacterial nucleoid, where viral DNA replication takes place. The biochemical properties of the Φ29 DBP and SSB and their function in the initiation and elongation of Φ29 DNA replication, respectively, will be described.
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- Margarita Salas
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid, Spain
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The requirement of DNA polymerases for a 3'-hydroxyl (3'-OH) group to prime DNA synthesis raised the question about how the ends of linear chromosomes could be replicated. Among the strategies that have evolved to handle the end replication problem, a group of linear phages and eukaryotic and archaeal viruses, among others, make use of a protein (terminal protein, TP) that primes DNA synthesis from the end of their genomes. The replicative DNA polymerase recognizes the OH group of a specific residue in the TP to initiate replication that is guided by an internal 3' nucleotide of the template strand. By a sliding-back mechanism or variants of it the terminal nucleotide(s) is(are) recovered and the TP becomes covalently attached to the genome ends. Bacillus subtilis phage ϕ29 is the organism in which such a mechanism has been studied more extensively, having allowed to lay the foundations of the so-called protein-primed replication mechanism. Here we focus on the main biochemical and structural features of the two main proteins responsible for the protein-primed initiation step: the DNA polymerase and the TP. Thus, we will discuss the structural determinants of the DNA polymerase responsible for its ability to use sequentially a TP and a DNA as primers, as well as for its inherent capacity to couple high processive synthesis to strand displacement. On the other hand, we will review how TP primes initiation followed by a transition step for further DNA-primed replication by the same polymerase molecule. Finally, we will review how replication is compartmentalized in vivo.
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- M Salas
- Instituto de Biología Molecular "Eladio Viñuela" (CSIC), Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular "Eladio Viñuela" (CSIC), Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
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del Prado A, Villar L, de Vega M, Salas M. Involvement of residues of the 29 terminal protein intermediate and priming domains in the formation of a stable and functional heterodimer with the replicative DNA polymerase. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 40:3886-97. [PMID: 22210885 PMCID: PMC3351185 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Bacteriophage Φ29 genome consists of a linear double-stranded DNA with a terminal protein (TP) covalently linked to each 5' end (TP-DNA) that together with a specific sequence constitutes the replication origins. To initiate replication, the DNA polymerase forms a heterodimer with a free TP that recognizes the origins and initiates replication using as primer the hydroxyl group of TP residue Ser232. The 3D structure of the DNA polymerase/TP heterodimer allowed the identification of TP residues that could be responsible for interaction with the DNA polymerase. Here, we examined the role of TP residues Arg158, Arg169, Glu191, Asp198, Tyr250, Glu252, Gln253 and Arg256 by in vitro analyses of mutant derivatives. The results showed that substitution of these residues had an effect on either the stability of the TP/DNA polymerase complex (R158A) or in the functional interaction of the TP at the polymerization active site (R169A, E191A, Y250A, E252A, Q253A and R256A), affecting the first steps of Φ29 TP-DNA replication. These results allow us to propose a role for these residues in the maintenance of the equilibrium between TP-priming domain stabilization and its gradual exit from the polymerization active site of the DNA polymerase as new DNA is being synthesized.
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- Alicia del Prado
- Instituto de Biología Molecular Eladio Viñuela (CSIC), Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), C/Nicolás Cabrera 1, Universidad Autónoma, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Fricova D, Valach M, Farkas Z, Pfeiffer I, Kucsera J, Tomaska L, Nosek J. The mitochondrial genome of the pathogenic yeast Candida subhashii: GC-rich linear DNA with a protein covalently attached to the 5' termini. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2010; 156:2153-2163. [PMID: 20395267 PMCID: PMC3068681 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.038646-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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As a part of our initiative aimed at a large-scale comparative analysis of fungal mitochondrial genomes, we determined the complete DNA sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the yeast Candida subhashii and found that it exhibits a number of peculiar features. First, the mitochondrial genome is represented by linear dsDNA molecules of uniform length (29 795 bp), with an unusually high content of guanine and cytosine residues (52.7 %). Second, the coding sequences lack introns; thus, the genome has a relatively compact organization. Third, the termini of the linear molecules consist of long inverted repeats and seem to contain a protein covalently bound to terminal nucleotides at the 5′ ends. This architecture resembles the telomeres in a number of linear viral and plasmid DNA genomes classified as invertrons, in which the terminal proteins serve as specific primers for the initiation of DNA synthesis. Finally, although the mitochondrial genome of C. subhashii contains essentially the same set of genes as other closely related pathogenic Candida species, we identified additional ORFs encoding two homologues of the family B protein-priming DNA polymerases and an unknown protein. The terminal structures and the genes for DNA polymerases are reminiscent of linear mitochondrial plasmids, indicating that this genome architecture might have emerged from fortuitous recombination between an ancestral, presumably circular, mitochondrial genome and an invertron-like element.
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- Dominika Fricova
- Department of Biochemistry, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mlynska dolina CH-1, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mlynska dolina CH-1, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Kozep fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Kozep fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Kozep fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Genetics, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mlynska dolina B-1, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mlynska dolina CH-1, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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Sun S, Rao VB, Rossmann MG. Genome packaging in viruses. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2010; 20:114-20. [PMID: 20060706 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2009] [Revised: 12/11/2009] [Accepted: 12/16/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Genome packaging is a fundamental process in a viral life cycle. Many viruses assemble preformed capsids into which the genomic material is subsequently packaged. These viruses use a packaging motor protein that is driven by the hydrolysis of ATP to condense the nucleic acids into a confined space. How these motor proteins package viral genomes had been poorly understood until recently, when a few X-ray crystal structures and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures became available. Here we discuss various aspects of genome packaging and compare the mechanisms proposed for packaging motors on the basis of structural information.
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- Siyang Sun
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054, USA
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An ATP-powered DNA translocation machine encapsidates the viral genome in the large dsDNA bacteriophages. The essential components include the empty shell, prohead, and the packaging enzyme, terminase. During translocation, terminase is docked on the prohead's portal protein. The translocation ATPase and the concatemer-cutting endonuclease reside in terminase. Remarkably, terminases, portal proteins, and shells of tailed bacteriophages and herpes viruses show conserved features. These DNA viruses may have descended from a common ancestor. Terminase's ATPase consists of a classic nucleotide binding fold, most closely resembling that of monomeric helicases. Intriguing models have been proposed for the mechanism of dsDNA translocation, invoking ATP hydrolysis-driven conformational changes of portal or terminase powering DNA motion. Single-molecule studies show that the packaging motor is fast and powerful. Recent advances permit experiments that can critically test the packaging models. The viral genome translocation mechanism is of general interest, given the parallels between terminases, helicases, and other motor proteins.
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- Venigalla B Rao
- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20064, USA.
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Longás E, de Vega M, Lázaro JM, Salas M. Functional characterization of highly processive protein-primed DNA polymerases from phages Nf and GA-1, endowed with a potent strand displacement capacity. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:6051-63. [PMID: 17071961 PMCID: PMC1635332 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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This paper shows that the protein-primed DNA polymerases encoded by bacteriophages Nf and GA-1, unlike other DNA polymerases, do not require unwinding or processivity factors for efficient synthesis of full-length terminal protein (TP)-DNA. Analysis of their polymerization activity shows that both DNA polymerases base their replication efficiency on a high processivity and on the capacity to couple polymerization to strand displacement. Both enzymes are endowed with a proofreading activity that acts coordinately with the polymerization one to edit polymerization errors. Additionally, Nf double-stranded DNA binding protein (DBP) greatly stimulated the in vitro formation of the TP-dAMP initiation complex by decreasing the Km value for dATP of the Nf DNA polymerase by >20-fold. Whereas Nf DNA polymerase, as the φ29 enzyme, is able to use its homologous TP as well as DNA as primer, GA-1 DNA polymerase appears to have evolved to use its corresponding TP as the only primer of DNA synthesis. Such exceptional behaviour is discussed in the light of the recently solved structure of the DNA polymerase/TP complex of the related bacteriophage φ29.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +344 91 4978436; Fax: +34 91 4978490;
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Kamtekar S, Berman AJ, Wang J, Lázaro JM, de Vega M, Blanco L, Salas M, Steitz TA. The phi29 DNA polymerase:protein-primer structure suggests a model for the initiation to elongation transition. EMBO J 2006; 25:1335-43. [PMID: 16511564 PMCID: PMC1422159 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2006] [Accepted: 02/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The absolute requirement for primers in the initiation of DNA synthesis poses a problem for replicating the ends of linear chromosomes. The DNA polymerase of bacteriophage phi29 solves this problem by using a serine hydroxyl of terminal protein to prime replication. The 3.0 A resolution structure shows one domain of terminal protein making no interactions, a second binding the polymerase and a third domain containing the priming serine occupying the same binding cleft in the polymerase as duplex DNA does during elongation. Thus, the progressively elongating DNA duplex product must displace this priming domain. Further, this heterodimer of polymerase and terminal protein cannot accommodate upstream template DNA, thereby explaining its specificity for initiating DNA synthesis only at the ends of the bacteriophage genome. We propose a model for the transition from the initiation to the elongation phases in which the priming domain of terminal protein moves out of the active site as polymerase elongates the primer strand. The model indicates that terminal protein should dissociate from polymerase after the incorporation of approximately six nucleotides.
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- Satwik Kamtekar
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Centro de Biología Molecular ‘Severo Ochoa' (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma, Canto Blanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular ‘Severo Ochoa' (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma, Canto Blanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular ‘Severo Ochoa' (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma, Canto Blanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular ‘Severo Ochoa' (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma, Canto Blanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, Room 418, Bass Center, 266 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA. Tel.: +1 203 432 5617/5619; Fax: +1 203 432 3282; E-mail:
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Andraos N, Tabor S, Richardson CC. The highly processive DNA polymerase of bacteriophage T5. Role of the unique N and C termini. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:50609-18. [PMID: 15377656 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m408428200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The DNA polymerase encoded by bacteriophage T5 has been reported previously to be processive and to catalyze extensive strand displacement synthesis. The enzyme, purified from phage-infected cells, did not require accessory proteins for these activities. Although T5 DNA polymerase shares extensive sequence homology with Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I and T7 DNA polymerase, it contains unique regions of 130 and 71 residues at its N and C termini, respectively. We cloned the gene encoding wild-type T5 DNA polymerase and characterized the overproduced protein. We also examined the effect of N- and C-terminal deletions on processivity and strand displacement synthesis. T5 DNA polymerase lacking its N-terminal 30 residues resembled the wild-type enzyme albeit with a 2-fold reduction in polymerase activity. Deletion of 24 residues at the C terminus resulted in a 30-fold reduction in polymerase activity on primed circular DNA, had dramatically reduced processivity, and was unable to carry out strand displacement synthesis. Deletion of 63 residues at the C terminus resulted in a 20,000-fold reduction in polymerase activity. The 3' to 5' double-stranded DNA exonuclease activity associated with T5 DNA polymerase was reduced by a factor of 5 in the polymerase truncated at the N terminus but was stimulated by a factor of 7 in the polymerase truncated at the C terminus. We propose a model in which the C terminus increases the affinity of the DNA for the polymerase active site, thus increasing processivity and decreasing the accessibility of the DNA to the exonuclease active site.
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- Nathalie Andraos
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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