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ReviewCritical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology2026

DNA polymerase I: structure, activity, and function in bacterial DNA replication and repair.

Frances Caroline Lowder, Lyle A Simmons

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Review in Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Frances Caroline LowderMolecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Lyle A SimmonsMolecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Funding

Novel mechanisms of DNA repair and cell cycle regulation in bacteriaR35GM131772 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Lyle Simmons · 2019 to 2026
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131772
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Faithful replication and repair of the genome are essential processes for all life. Genome maintenance is coordinated by a complex suite of proteins, with bacteria evolving intricate systems despite their relatively simplistic genomes. DNA polymerases are a key class of proteins that mediate genome maintenance. DNA polymerases are all capable of extending nascent strands of DNA but contribute to DNA replication and repair in distinct ways depending on their active site and substrate specificity. The first discovered polymerase, bacterial DNA polymerase I (Pol I), has long been considered the primary enzyme responsible for Okazaki fragment maturation and resynthesis in many DNA repair pathways. These conclusions derive primarily from studies using the gram-negative bacterium,

Indexed as

bacterial DNA repairBacterial DNA replicationDNA polymerase Iflap endonucleaseKlenow fragmentOkazaki fragment maturation

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PMID42261889
PMCPMC13575937

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