Article
A triad interaction in the fingers subdomain of DNA polymerase beta controls polymerase activity.
Journal of the American Chemical Society - 27 Apr 2011
Murphy Drew L, Jaeger Joachim, Sweasy Joann B
Abstract excerpt
DNA polymerase beta (pol beta) is the main polymerase involved in the base excision repair pathway responsible for repairing damaged bases in the DNA. Previous studies on the H285D mutant of pol beta suggested that the C-terminal region of the polymerase is important for polymerase function. In this study, the C-terminal region of pol beta was mutated to assess its role in polymerization. Kinetic experiments...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Biocatalysis
- Circular Dichroism
- DNA
- DNA Polymerase beta
- Kinetics
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Dynamics Simulation
- Mutation
