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SUBMITTER: Asagoshi K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3258131 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Asagoshi Kenjiro K Lehmann Wade W Braithwaite Elena K EK Santana-Santos Lucas L Prasad Rajendra R Freedman Jonathan H JH Van Houten Bennett B Wilson Samuel H SH
Nucleic acids research 20110914 2
The base excision DNA repair (BER) pathway known to occur in Caenorhabditis elegans has not been well characterized. Even less is known about the DNA polymerase (pol) requirement for the gap-filling step during BER. We now report on characterization of in vitro uracil-DNA initiated BER in C. elegans. The results revealed single-nucleotide (SN) gap-filling DNA polymerase activity and complete BER. The gap-filling polymerase activity was not due to a DNA polymerase β (pol β) homolog, or to another ...[more]