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ArticleJournal of molecular biology2022

The Rate-limiting Step of DNA Synthesis by DNA Polymerase Occurs in the Fingers-closed Conformation.

Geraint W Evans, Timothy Craggs, Achillefs N Kapanidis

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Article in Journal of molecular biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Geraint W EvansDepartment of Physics and Biological Physics Research Group, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/geraintwe.
Timothy CraggsDepartment of Physics and Biological Physics Research Group, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom; Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Brook Hill, Sheffield S3 7HF, United Kingdom. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/Craggs_Lab.
Achillefs N KapanidisDepartment of Physics and Biological Physics Research Group, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom. Electronic address: kapanidis@physics.ox.ac.uk.
University of Oxford · GBUniversity of Sheffield · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H01795X/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 110164/Z/15/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA polymerases maintain genomic integrity by copying DNA with high fidelity, part of which relies on the polymerase fingers opening-closing transition, a series of conformational changes during the DNA synthesis reaction cycle. Fingers opening and closing has been challenging to study, mainly due to the need to synchronise molecular ensembles. We previously studied fingers opening-closing on single polymerase-DNA complexes using single-molecule FRET; however, our work was limited to pre-chemistry reaction steps. Here, we advance our analysis to extensible substrates, and observe DNA polymerase (Pol) conformational changes across the entire DNA polymerisation reaction in real-time, gaining direct access to an elusive post-chemistry step rate-limiting for DNA synthesis. Our results showed that Pol adopts the fingers-closed conformation during polymerisation, and that the post-chemistry rate-limiting step occurs in the fingers-closed conformation. We found that fingers-opening in the Pol-DNA binary complex in the absence of polymerisation is slow (∼5.3 s

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DNA ReplicationCrystallography, X-RayDNADNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseEscherichia coliKineticsModels, MolecularNucleotidesProtein ConformationDNADNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseNucleotidesDNA polymeraseDNA synthesisfingers opening-closing transitionreal-time single molecule kineticssingle-molecule FRET

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PMID34929202
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