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Complementation between polymerase- and exonuclease-deficient mitochondrial DNA polymerase mutants in genomically engineered flies.
Nature communications - 10 Nov 2015
Bratic Ana, Kauppila Timo E S, Macao Bertil, Grönke Sebastian, Siibak Triinu, Stewart James B, Baggio Francesca, Dols Jacqueline, Partridge Linda, Falkenberg Maria, Wredenberg Anna, Larsson Nils-Göran
Abstract excerpt
Replication errors are the main cause of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations and a compelling approach to decrease mutation levels would therefore be to increase the fidelity of the catalytic subunit (POLγA) of the mtDNA polymerase. Here we genomically engineer the tamas locus, encoding fly POLγA, and introduce alleles expressing exonuclease- (exo(-)) and polymerase-deficient (pol(-)) POLγA versions. The exo(-)...
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