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Dysfunctional proofreading in the Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III core.
The Biochemical journal - 1 Dec 2004
Lehtinen Duane A, Perrino Fred W
Abstract excerpt
The epsilon-subunit contains the catalytic site for the 3'-->5' proofreading exonuclease that functions in the DNA pol III (DNA polymerase III) core to edit nucleotides misinserted by the alpha-subunit DNA pol. A novel mutagenesis strategy was used to identify 23 dnaQ alleles that exhibit a mutator phenotype in vivo. Fourteen of the epsilon mutants were purified, and these proteins exhibited 3'-->5' exonuclease...
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