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Error-prone replication of repeated DNA sequences by T7 DNA polymerase in the absence of its processivity subunitT A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 91:6830-4. 1994..Thus, replicative expansion of repetitive sequences occurs in the absence of a replication accessory protein...- Specialized mismatch repair function of Glu339 in the Phe-X-Glu motif of yeast Msh6Shannon F Holmes
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States
DNA Repair (Amst) 6:293-303. 2007.... 
Expression of human AID in yeast induces mutations in context similar to the context of somatic hypermutation at G-C pairs in immunoglobulin genesVladimir I Mayorov
Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA 31207, USA
BMC Immunol 6:10. 2005..The DNA sequence context of mutation hotspots at G-C pairs during SHM is DGYW/WRCH (G-C is a hotspot position, R = A/G, Y = T/C, W = A/T, D = A/G/T)...- Evidence for interplay among yeast replicative DNA polymerases alpha, delta and epsilon from studies of exonuclease and polymerase active site mutationsYouri I Pavlov
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Health, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
BMC Biol 2:11. 2004..Here we investigate the mechanism responsible for the mutator effect... 
Functions of human DNA polymerases eta, kappa and iota suggested by their properties, including fidelity with undamaged DNA templatesThomas A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
DNA Repair (Amst) 2:135-49. 2003....- DNA replication fidelityThomas A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 279:16895-8. 2004 - Considering the cancer consequences of altered DNA polymerase functionThomas A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Cancer Cell 3:105-10. 2003..This review describes emerging information on the properties and functions of human DNA polymerases, with emphasis on connections between DNA polymerase functions and cancer... - DNA mismatch repairThomas A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Annu Rev Biochem 74:681-710. 2005..Emphasis is on structure-function studies of MMR proteins, on how mismatches are recognized, on the process by which the newly replicated strand is identified, and on excision of the replication error... - DNA replication fidelityT A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Annu Rev Biochem 69:497-529. 2000..We highlight common features that are relevant to the fidelity of any DNA synthesis reaction, and consider why fidelity varies depending on the enzymes, the error, and the local sequence environment... - Dividing the workload at a eukaryotic replication forkThomas A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, 111 T W Alexander Drive, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Health, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Trends Cell Biol 18:521-7. 2008..We also review earlier studies in light of this model and then consider prospects for future investigations of possible variations on this simple division of labor... 
Evolving views of DNA replication (in)fidelityT A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 74:91-101. 2009..This offers the potential to modulate rates of point mutations over a wide range, with consequences that can be either deleterious or beneficial...- DNA replication and repair reactions relevant to the AHSThomas A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:190-1. 2005 - Balancing eukaryotic replication asymmetry with replication fidelityThomas A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Curr Opin Chem Biol 15:620-6. 2011.... - In vivo consequences of putative active site mutations in yeast DNA polymerases alpha, epsilon, delta, and zetaY I Pavlov
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Genetics 159:47-64. 2001..This is supported by the observation that the pol3-Y708A mutation is recessive and its mutator effect is partially suppressed by disruption of the REV3 gene... - High affinity cooperative DNA binding by the yeast Mlh1-Pms1 heterodimerM C Hall
Laboratories of Molecular Genetics and Structural Biology, NIEHS, RTP, NC 27709, USA
J Mol Biol 312:637-47. 2001..These DNA binding properties of Mlh1-Pms1 may be relevant to its participation in DNA mismatch repair, recombination and cellular responses to DNA damage... - Functional interaction of proliferating cell nuclear antigen with MSH2-MSH6 and MSH2-MSH3 complexesA B Clark
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 275:36498-501. 2000..Thus, MSH3 and MSH6 interactions with PCNA may facilitate early steps in DNA mismatch repair and may also be important for other roles of these eukaryotic MutS homologs... - Functional analysis of human MutSalpha and MutSbeta complexes in yeastA B Clark
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, PO Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 27:736-42. 1999..The analogous mutation in humans is associated with microsatellite instability, defective MMR and cancer, illustrating the utility of the yeast system for studying human disease alleles... - Mutator phenotype due to loss of heterozygosity in diploid yeast strains with mutations in MSH2 and MLH1K Drotschmann
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Toxicol Lett 112:239-44. 2000..These results have implications for understanding the mechanisms of carcinogenesis in humans... - The 3'-->5' exonuclease of DNA polymerase delta can substitute for the 5' flap endonuclease Rad27/Fen1 in processing Okazaki fragments and preventing genome instabilityY H Jin
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 111 TW Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:5122-7. 2001..These results suggest that the 3'-->5' Exo activity of Pol delta is redundant with Rad27/Fen1 for creating ligatable nicks between adjacent Okazaki fragments, possibly by reducing the amount of strand-displacement in the lagging strand... - Purification of eukaryotic MutL homologs from Saccharomyces cerevisiae using self-affinity technologyM C Hall
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Protein Expr Purif 21:333-42. 2001..The general approach is a valid alternative for simple, rapid purification of recombinant proteins in yeast when expression in bacteria is unsuitable... - Microsatellite instability, mismatch repair deficiency, and genetic defects in human cancer cell linesJ C Boyer
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Cancer Res 55:6063-70. 1995..It also provides an extensive panel of repair-proficient and repair-deficient cell lines for future studies of mismatch repair... - Inactivation of DNA mismatch repair by increased expression of yeast MLH1P V Shcherbakova
Laboratories of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Mol Cell Biol 21:940-51. 2001.... - The fidelity of human DNA polymerase gamma with and without exonucleolytic proofreading and the p55 accessory subunitM J Longley
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and the Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 276:38555-62. 2001..These data suggest that homopolymeric runs in mitochondrial DNA may be particularly prone to frameshift mutation in vivo due to replication errors by pol gamma... - Asymmetric recognition of DNA local distortion. Structure-based functional studies of eukaryotic Msh2-Msh6K Drotschmann
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 276:46225-9. 2001..The importance of these contacts decreases with increasing distance from the mismatch, implying that interactions at and near the mismatch are important for binding in a kinked DNA conformation... - Proofreading of DNA polymerase eta-dependent replication errorsK Bebenek
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 276:2317-20. 2001.... - Strand specificity of mutagenic bypass replication of DNA containing psoralen monoadducts in a human cell extractD C Thomas
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Mol Cell Biol 16:2537-44. 1996..A model is proposed based on the preferential loopout of the monoadducted base from the strand that templates retrograde discontinuous synthesis... - Microsatellite instability in gynecological sarcomas and in hMSH2 mutant uterine sarcoma cell lines defective in mismatch repair activityJ I Risinger
Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Cancer Res 55:5664-9. 1995..There was no apparent correlation with microsatellite instability and clinical outcome... - Error rate and specificity of human and murine DNA polymerase etaT Matsuda
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
J Mol Biol 312:335-46. 2001..The nature and location of these errors suggest that some may be initiated by strand slippage, while others result from additional mechanisms... - Characterization of distinct human endometrial carcinoma cell lines deficient in mismatch repair that originated from a single tumorW E Glaab
Laboratory of Environmental Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 273:26662-9. 1998..These data support a critical role for hPMS2 in human MMR, while further defining the role of the hMSH2/hMSH3 heterodimer in maintaining genomic stability in the absence of a wild-type hMSH2/hMSH6 heterodimer... - The accuracy of reverse transcriptase from HIV-1J D Roberts
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Science 242:1171-3. 1988..The data are consistent with the notion that the exceptional diversity of the HIV-1 genome results from error-prone reverse transcription... - Unequal human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase error rates with RNA and DNA templatesJ C Boyer
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89:6919-23. 1992..The data also provide estimates of substitution and frameshift error rates during transcription by T7 RNA polymerase... - Mutator effects of overproducing DNA polymerase eta (Rad30) and its catalytically inactive variant in yeastY I Pavlov
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Natioanl Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Mutat Res 478:129-39. 2001..This suggests that more than one mutagenic mechanism is operating when RAD30 is overexpressed... - Family growth: the eukaryotic DNA polymerase revolutionK Bebenek
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Cell Mol Life Sci 59:54-7. 2002 - Mutator phenotypes of yeast strains heterozygous for mutations in the MSH2 geneK Drotschmann
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P O Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96:2970-5. 1999..The synergistic effects of heterozygosity for mutations in two different genes that act in series to correct replication errors may be relevant to cancer predisposition... - Investigating the role of the little finger domain of Y-family DNA polymerases in low fidelity synthesis and translesion replicationFrancois Boudsocq
Section on DNA Replication, Repair, and Mutagenesis, Laboratory of Genomic Integrity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 2725, USA
J Biol Chem 279:32932-40. 2004..Our studies indicate that the unique but variable LF domain of Y-family polymerases plays a major role in determining the enzymatic and biological properties of each individual Y-family member... - Eukaryotic DNA polymerase amino acid sequence required for 3'----5' exonuclease activityA Morrison
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 88:9473-7. 1991..None of these residues, however, appeared to be identifiable in the catalytic subunits of human, yeast, or Drosophila alpha DNA polymerases... - Requirement for PCNA in DNA mismatch repair at a step preceding DNA resynthesisA Umar
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Cell 87:65-73. 1996..The ability of PCNA to bind to MLH1 and MSH2 may reflect linkage between mismatch repair and replication and may be relevant to the roles of mismatch repair proteins in other DNA transactions... - Mutator phenotypes of common polymorphisms and missense mutations in MSH2K Drotschmann
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Curr Biol 9:907-10. 1999..The results suggest that cancer may be associated with even partial loss of hMSH2 function and they are consistent with the hypothesis that polymorphisms in hMSH2 might predispose humans to disease... - Substrate-induced DNA strand misalignment during catalytic cycling by DNA polymerase lambdaKatarzyna Bebenek
Laboratory of Structural Biology and Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
EMBO Rep 9:459-64. 2008..The results indicate that dNTP-induced template strand repositioning during conformational rearrangements in the catalytic cycle is crucial to controlling the rate of strand slippage... - Differential ATP binding and intrinsic ATP hydrolysis by amino-terminal domains of the yeast Mlh1 and Pms1 proteinsMark C Hall
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 277:3673-9. 2002..This is consistent with a model wherein ATP may first bind to Mlh1, resulting in events that permit ATP binding to Pms1 and later steps in DNA mismatch repair... - A thumb subdomain mutant of the large fragment of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I with reduced DNA binding affinity, processivity, and frameshift fidelityD T Minnick
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 271:24954-61. 1996..The results are discussed in light of remarkably similar observations with T7 DNA polymerase in the presence or absence of thioredoxin, an accessory subunit that affects these same properties... - Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis without phenotypic selectionT A Kunkel
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Curr Protoc Neurosci . 2001..The length of the oligonucleotide primer is highly variable and depends on the nature of the change being made... - Effects of accessory proteins on the bypass of a cis-syn thymine-thymine dimer by Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase etaScott D McCulloch
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Biochemistry 46:8888-96. 2007..Thus, although accessory proteins clearly participate in pol eta functions in vivo, they do not appear to help suppress UV mutagenesis by improving pol eta bypass fidelity per se... - Unique error signature of the four-subunit yeast DNA polymerase epsilonPolina V Shcherbakova
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 278:43770-80. 2003..We discuss the implications of these findings for the role of Pol epsilon polymerase activity in DNA replication... - A unique error signature for human DNA polymerase nuMercedes E Arana
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
DNA Repair (Amst) 6:213-23. 2007..Amino acid sequence alignments based on the structures of more accurate A family polymerases suggest substantial differences in the O-helix of pol nu that could contribute to this unique error signature... - Role of the catalytic metal during polymerization by DNA polymerase lambdaMiguel Garcia Diaz
Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
DNA Repair (Amst) 6:1333-40. 2007..These data provide pre- and post-transition state information and outline in a single crystal the pathway for the phosphoryl transfer reaction carried out by DNA polymerases... - Altered spectra of hypermutation in antibodies from mice deficient for the DNA mismatch repair protein PMS2D B Winter
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95:6953-8. 1998..The data indicate that tandem substitutions are produced by the hypermutation mechanism and then processed by a PMS2-dependent pathway... - Purification and characterization of DNA polymerase II from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Identification of the catalytic core and a possible holoenzyme form of the enzymeR K Hamatake
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
J Biol Chem 265:4072-83. 1990.... - 5'-Deoxyribose phosphate lyase activity of human DNA polymerase iota in vitroK Bebenek
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and, Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Science 291:2156-9. 2001..These data and three distinct catalytic properties of pol iota implicate it in specialized forms of base excision repair (BER)... - Inefficient proofreading and biased error rates during inaccurate DNA synthesis by a mutant derivative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase deltaStephanie A Nick McElhinny
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 282:2324-32. 2007..cerevisiae strain has an elevated spontaneous mutation rate that is likely due to reduced replication fidelity in vivo... - A structural solution for the DNA polymerase lambda-dependent repair of DNA gaps with minimal homologyMiguel Garcia-Diaz
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Mol Cell 13:561-72. 2004..Surprisingly, Pol lambda can adopt a closed conformation, even in the absence of dNTP binding. These observations have implications for the catalytic mechanism and putative DNA repair functions of Pol lambda... - Enzymatic switching for efficient and accurate translesion DNA replicationScott D McCulloch
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 32:4665-75. 2004.... - Template strand scrunching during DNA gap repair synthesis by human polymerase lambdaMiguel Garcia-Diaz
Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, North Carolina, USA
Nat Struct Mol Biol 16:967-72. 2009..Thus, akin to scrunching by RNA polymerase during transcription initiation, scrunching occurs during gap filling DNA synthesis associated with DNA repair... - DNA polymerase epsilon: a polymerase of unusual size (and complexity)Zachary F Pursell
Department of Health and Human Services, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Prog Nucleic Acid Res Mol Biol 82:101-45. 2008 - Functional residues on the surface of the N-terminal domain of yeast Pms1Mercedes E Arana
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States
DNA Repair (Amst) 9:448-57. 2010..Elevated mutation rates also resulted from surface residue replacements that did not affect DNA binding, suggesting that these conserved residues serve other functions, possibly involving interactions with other MMR proteins... - Cadmium inhibits the functions of eukaryotic MutS complexesAlan B Clark
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 279:53903-6. 2004..These data indicate that eukaryotic Msh2-Msh3 and Msh2-Msh6 complexes are targets for inhibition of MMR by cadmium, a human lung carcinogen that is ubiquitous in the environment... - Fidelity of DNA synthesis catalyzed by human DNA polymerase alpha and HIV-1 reverse transcriptase: effect of reaction pHK A Eckert
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Nucleic Acids Res 21:5212-20. 1993..The HIV-1 RT results are in agreement with our previous hypothesis that the observed increase in polymerase fidelity at low pH results from a decreased efficiency of continuing DNA synthesis from premutational DNA intermediates... - Interaction between DNA Polymerase lambda and anticancer nucleoside analogsMiguel Garcia-Diaz
Laboratory of Structural Biology and Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 285:16874-9. 2010..Consistent with these structures, Pol lambda efficiently incorporates AraCTP but not dFdCTP. The data are consistent with the possibility that Pol lambda could modulate the cytotoxic effect of AraC... - A closed conformation for the Pol lambda catalytic cycleMiguel Garcia-Diaz
Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Nat Struct Mol Biol 12:97-8. 2005.... - Biochemical properties of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase IVKatarzyna Bebenek
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 280:20051-8. 2005..These properties are consistent with a possible role for pol IV in base excision repair and with its known role in non-homologous end joining of double strand breaks, perhaps including those with damaged ends... - RNA-templated DNA repairFrancesca Storici
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Nature 447:338-41. 2007.... - Mutations in DNA polymerase gamma cause error prone DNA synthesis in human mitochondrial disordersWilliam C Copeland
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Acta Biochim Pol 50:155-67. 2003..The error prone DNA synthesis observed for the Y955C polgamma is consistent with the accumulation of mtDNA mutations in patients with PEO. The effects of other polgamma mutations associated with PEO are discussed... - Structural analysis of strand misalignment during DNA synthesis by a human DNA polymeraseMiguel Garcia-Diaz
Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Cell 124:331-42. 2006..They are thus relevant to the origin of single-base deletions, a class of mutations that can confer strong biological phenotypes... - Evidence for extrinsic exonucleolytic proofreadingStephanie A Nick McElhinny
Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Cell Cycle 5:958-62. 2006.... - Characterization of a replicative DNA polymerase mutant with reduced fidelity and increased translesion synthesis capacityXuejun Zhong
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 36:3892-904. 2008..In addition, slight structural differences were observed that could be relevant to the reduced fidelity of L415F RB69 pol... - Structural insight into the substrate specificity of DNA Polymerase muAndrea F Moon
Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, 111 T W Alexander Drive, MD F3 09, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Nat Struct Mol Biol 14:45-53. 2007..These results provide insight into the substrate specificity and differing functions of four closely related mammalian family X DNA polymerases... - Catalytic mechanism of human DNA polymerase lambda with Mg2+ and Mn2+ from ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical studiesG Andres Cisneros
Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park RTP, NC 27709, USA
DNA Repair (Amst) 7:1824-34. 2008..There is partial conservation of these residues across the Pol X family of DNA polymerases... - The X family portrait: structural insights into biological functions of X family polymerasesAndrea F Moon
Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health 111 T W Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States
DNA Repair (Amst) 6:1709-25. 2007..Here we consider how distinctive structural features of these enzymes contribute to their biological functions in vivo... - Enzymatic cytosine deamination: friend and foeThomas A Kunkel
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Mol Cell 10:962-3. 2002 - Evidence for sequential action of two ATPase active sites in yeast Msh2-Msh6Karin Drotschmann
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
DNA Repair (Amst) 1:743-53. 2002..This suggests sequential action of the two ATPase active sites, in which ATP binds to Msh6 first to trigger downstream events in mismatch repair... - The efficiency and specificity of apurinic/apyrimidinic site bypass by human DNA polymerase eta and Sulfolobus solfataricus Dpo4Robert J Kokoska
Laboratories of Molecular Genetics and Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 278:50537-45. 2003.... - Correlation of somatic hypermutation specificity and A-T base pair substitution errors by DNA polymerase eta during copying of a mouse immunoglobulin kappa light chain transgeneYouri I Pavlov
Laboratories of Molecular Genetics and Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:9954-9. 2002.... - Functions of eukaryotic DNA polymerasesPolina V Shcherbakova
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Sci Aging Knowledge Environ 2003:RE3. 2003..In this review, we discuss the possible functions of these polymerases in DNA damage repair, the replication of intact and damaged chromosomes, and cell cycle checkpoints... - Cadmium is a mutagen that acts by inhibiting mismatch repairYong Hwan Jin
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Nat Genet 34:326-9. 2003..In extracts of human cells, cadmium inhibited at least one step leading to mismatch removal. Together, our data show that a high level of genetic instability can result from environmental impediment of a mutation-avoidance system... - Preferential cis-syn thymine dimer bypass by DNA polymerase eta occurs with biased fidelityScott D McCulloch
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Nature 428:97-100. 2004..Thus, in normal people and particularly in individuals with NER-defective xeroderma pigmentosum who accumulate dimers, errors made by Pol eta during dimer bypass could contribute to mutagenesis and skin cancer... - The base substitution fidelity of DNA polymerase beta-dependent single nucleotide base excision repairToshiro Matsuda
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 278:25947-51. 2003..Thus other proteins in the BER reaction may enhance the base substitution fidelity of DNA polymerase beta during single nucleotide BER... - DNA binding by yeast Mlh1 and Pms1: implications for DNA mismatch repairMark C Hall
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 31:2025-34. 2003..Finally, the results are consistent with the hypothesis that DNA binding by Mlh1 is important for MMR... - Recombinogenic phenotype of human activation-induced cytosine deaminaseVladimir P Poltoratsky
Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
J Immunol 172:4308-13. 2004..Thus, the initial step of base excision repair is required for AID-dependent recombination and is a branch point for either hypermutagenesis or recombination... - Fidelity of two retroviral reverse transcriptases during DNA-dependent DNA synthesis in vitroJ D Roberts
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
Mol Cell Biol 9:469-76. 1989..The overall error rate of RT in vitro is sufficient to account for the estimated mutation rate of these viruses... - The frameshift infidelity of human DNA polymerase lambda. Implications for functionKatarzyna Bebenek
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 278:34685-90. 2003..This may include non-homologous end-joining of strand breaks resulting from DNA damage, because Pol lambda has intrinsic 5',2'-deoxyribose-5-phosphate lyase activity... - Yeast origins establish a strand bias for replicational mutagenesisYouri I Pavlov
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Mol Cell 10:207-13. 2002.... - Division of labor at the eukaryotic replication forkStephanie A Nick McElhinny
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Mol Cell 30:137-44. 2008.... - Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase delta: high fidelity for base substitutions but lower fidelity for single- and multi-base deletionsJohn M Fortune
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Biol Chem 280:29980-7. 2005..Thus, strand slippage during replication by wild type Pol delta may be a primary source of insertion and deletion mutagenesis in eukaryotic genomes... - Multiple solutions to inefficient lesion bypass by T7 DNA polymeraseScott D McCulloch
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States
DNA Repair (Amst) 5:1373-83. 2006.... - Efficiency, fidelity and enzymatic switching during translesion DNA synthesisScott D McCulloch
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Cell Cycle 3:580-3. 2004..Several observations from that study were unanticipated. Here we discuss the structural and biological implications of those results in light of earlier studies of translesion synthesis... - Genome-wide model for the normal eukaryotic DNA replication forkANDRES A LARREA
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:17674-9. 2010..This strand bias strongly supports the idea that Pol δ is primarily a lagging strand polymerase during replication across the entire nuclear genome... - Genome instability due to ribonucleotide incorporation into DNAStephanie A Nick McElhinny
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Nat Chem Biol 6:774-81. 2010.... - Yeast DNA polymerase epsilon participates in leading-strand DNA replicationZachary F Pursell
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Science 317:127-30. 2007.... - Loop 1 modulates the fidelity of DNA polymerase lambdaKatarzyna Bebenek
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
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Laboratory of Structural Biology and Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research, NC 27709, USA
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Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
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Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
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Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
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Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa CSIC UAM, Universidad Autonoma, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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