Reference - PMID:16120966 - Characterization of SpPol4, a unique X-family DNA polymerase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Reference summary
- PubMed ID
- PMID:16120966
- Title
- Characterization of SpPol4, a unique X-family DNA polymerase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
- Authors
- González-Barrera S, Sánchez A, Ruiz JF, Juárez R, Picher AJ, Terrados G, Andrade P, Blanco L
- Citation
- Nucleic Acids Res 2005;33(15):4762-74
- Publication year
- 2005
- Abstract
- As predicted by the amino acid sequence, the purified protein coded by Schizosaccharomyces pombe SPAC2F7.06c is a DNA polymerase (SpPol4) whose biochemical properties resemble those of other X family (PolX) members. Thus, this new PolX is template-dependent, polymerizes in a distributive manner, lacks a detectable 3'-->5' proofreading activity and its preferred substrates are small gaps with a 5'-phosphate group. Similarly to Polmu, SpPol4 can incorporate a ribonucleotide (rNTP) into a primer DNA. However, it is not responsible for the 1-2 rNTPs proposed to be present at the mating-type locus and those necessary for mating-type switching. Unlike Polmu, SpPol4 lacks terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase activity and realigns the primer terminus to alternative template bases only under certain sequence contexts and, therefore, it is less error-prone than Polmu. Nonetheless, the biochemical properties of this gap-filling DNA polymerase are suitable for a possible role of SpPol4 in non-homologous end-joining. Unexpectedly based on sequence analysis, SpPol4 has deoxyribose phosphate lyase activity like Polbeta and Pollambda, and unlike Polmu, suggesting also a role of this enzyme in base excision repair. Therefore, SpPol4 is a unique enzyme whose enzymatic properties are hybrid of those described for mammalian Polbeta, Pollambda and Polmu.
