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ArticleNucleic acids research2013

DNA expansions generated by human Polμ on iterative sequences.

Ana Aza, Maria Jose Martin, Raquel Juarez, Luis Blanco, Gloria Terrados

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Can Designer Indels Be Tailored by Gene Editing?: Can Indels Be Customized?BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2019
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  2. Essential role for polymerase specialization in cellular nonhomologous end joining.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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5 authors.

Ana AzaCentro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
Maria Jose Martin
Raquel Juarez
Luis Blanco
Gloria Terrados

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polµ is the only DNA polymerase equipped with template-directed and terminal transferase activities. Polµ is also able to accept distortions in both primer and template strands, resulting in misinsertions and extension of realigned mismatched primer terminus. In this study, we propose a model for human Polµ-mediated dinucleotide expansion as a function of the sequence context. In this model, Polµ requires an initial dislocation, that must be subsequently stabilized, to generate large sequence expansions at different 5'-P-containing DNA substrates, including those that mimic non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) intermediates. Our mechanistic studies point at human Polµ residues His(329) and Arg(387) as responsible for regulating nucleotide expansions occurring during DNA repair transactions, either promoting or blocking, respectively, iterative polymerization. This is reminiscent of the role of both residues in the mechanism of terminal transferase activity. The iterative synthesis performed by Polµ at various contexts may lead to frameshift mutations producing DNA damage and instability, which may end in different human disorders, including cancer or congenital abnormalities.

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DNA End-Joining RepairDNA Repeat ExpansionArginineDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDNA Polymerase betaHistidineHumansTemplates, GeneticTrinucleotide RepeatsArginineDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDNA Polymerase betaDNA polymerase beta2DNA polymerase muHistidine

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PMID23143108
PMCPMC3592450

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