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Poliota, a remarkably error-prone human DNA polymerase.


ABSTRACT: The Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD30 gene encodes DNA polymerase eta. Humans possess two Rad30 homologs. One (RAD30A/POLH) has previously been characterized and shown to be defective in humans with the Xeroderma pigmentosum variant phenotype. Here, we report experiments demonstrating that the second human homolog (RAD30B), also encodes a novel DNA polymerase that we designate poliota. poliota, is a distributive enzyme that is highly error-prone when replicating undamaged DNA. At template G or C, the average error frequency was approximately 1 x 10(-2). Our studies revealed, however, a striking asymmetry in misincorporation frequency at template A and T. For example, template A was replicated with the greatest accuracy, with misincorporation of G, A, or C occurring with a frequency of approximately 1 x 10(-4) to 2 x 10(-4). In dramatic contrast, most errors occurred at template T, where the misincorporation of G was, in fact, favored approximately 3:1 over the correct nucleotide, A, and misincorporation of T occurred at a frequency of approximately 6.7 x 10(-1). These findings demonstrate that poliota is one of the most error-prone eukaryotic polymerases reported to date and exhibits an unusual misincorporation spectrum in vitro.

SUBMITTER: Tissier A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC316739 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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poliota, a remarkably error-prone human DNA polymerase.

Tissier A A   McDonald J P JP   Frank E G EG   Woodgate R R  

Genes & development 20000701 13


The Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD30 gene encodes DNA polymerase eta. Humans possess two Rad30 homologs. One (RAD30A/POLH) has previously been characterized and shown to be defective in humans with the Xeroderma pigmentosum variant phenotype. Here, we report experiments demonstrating that the second human homolog (RAD30B), also encodes a novel DNA polymerase that we designate poliota. poliota, is a distributive enzyme that is highly error-prone when replicating undamaged DNA. At template G or C, t  ...[more]

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