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Evidence that DNA polymerase ? contributes to initiating leading strand DNA replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

ABSTRACT: To investigate nuclear DNA replication enzymology in vivo, we have studied Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains containing a pol2-16 mutation that inactivates the catalytic activities of DNA polymerase ? (Pol ?). Although pol2-16 mutants survive, they present very tiny spore colonies, increased doubling time, larger than normal cells, aberrant nuclei, and rapid acquisition of suppressor mutations. These phenotypes reveal a severe growth defect that is distinct from that of strains that lack only Pol ? proofreading (pol2-4), consistent with the idea that Pol ? is the major leading-strand polymerase used for unstressed DNA replication. Ribonucleotides are incorporated into the pol2-16 genome in patterns consistent with leading-strand replication by Pol ? when Pol ? is absent. More importantly, ribonucleotide distributions at replication origins suggest that in strains encoding all three replicases, Pol ? contributes to initiation of leading-strand replication. We describe two possible models.

SUBMITTER: Garbacz MA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829166 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evidence that DNA polymerase δ contributes to initiating leading strand DNA replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Garbacz Marta A MA Lujan Scott A SA Burkholder Adam B AB Cox Phillip B PB Wu Qiuqin Q Zhou Zhi-Xiong ZX Haber James E JE Kunkel Thomas A TA

Nature communications 20180227 1

To investigate nuclear DNA replication enzymology in vivo, we have studied Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains containing a pol2-16 mutation that inactivates the catalytic activities of DNA polymerase ε (Pol ε). Although pol2-16 mutants survive, they present very tiny spore colonies, increased doubling time, larger than normal cells, aberrant nuclei, and rapid acquisition of suppressor mutations. These phenotypes reveal a severe growth defect that is distinct from that of strains that lack only Pol ...[more]

PMID: 29487291

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Project description:Humans are exposed to N-nitroso compounds (NOCs) both endogenously and exogenously from a number of environmental sources, and NOCs are both mutagenic and carcinogenic. After metabolic activation, some NOCs can induce carboxymethylation of nucleobases through a diazoacetate intermediate, which could give rise to p53 mutations similar to those seen in human gastrointestinal cancers. It was previously found that the growth of polymerase ?-deficient human cells was inhibited by treatment with azaserine, a DNA carboxymethylation agent, suggesting the importance of this polymerase in bypassing the azaserine-induced carboxymethylated DNA lesions. In this study, we examined how carboxymethylated DNA lesions, which included N(6)-carboxymethyl-2'-deoxyadenosine (N(6)-CMdA), N(4)-carboxymethyl-2'-deoxycytidine (N(4)-CMdC), N3-carboxymethylthymidine (N3-CMdT), and O(4)-carboxymethylthymidine (O(4)-CMdT), perturbed the efficiency and fidelity of DNA replication mediated by Saccharomyces cerevisiae polymerase ? (pol ?). Our results from steady-state kinetic assay showed that pol ? could readily bypass and extend past N(6)-CMdA and incorporated the correct nucleotides opposite the lesion and its neighboring 5'-nucleoside with high efficiency. By contrast, the polymerase could bypass N(4)-CMdC inefficiently, with substantial misincorporation of dCMP followed by dAMP, though pol ? could extend past the lesion with high fidelity and efficiency when dGMP was incorporated opposite the lesion. On the other hand, yeast pol ? experienced great difficulty in bypassing O(4)-CMdT and N3-CMdT, and the polymerase inserted preferentially the incorrect dGMP opposite these two DNA lesions; the extension step, nevertheless, occurred with high fidelity and efficiency when the correct dAMP was opposite the lesion, as opposed to the preferentially incorporated incorrect dGMP. These results suggest that these lesions may contribute significantly to diazoacetate-induced mutations and those in the p53 gene observed in human gastrointestinal tumors.

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Evidence that DNA polymerase ? contributes to initiating leading strand DNA replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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Evidence that DNA polymerase δ contributes to initiating leading strand DNA replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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