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[[http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/PRI2_HUMAN PRI2_HUMAN]] DNA primase is the polymerase that synthesizes small RNA primers for the Okazaki fragments made during discontinuous DNA replication. | [[http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/PRI2_HUMAN PRI2_HUMAN]] DNA primase is the polymerase that synthesizes small RNA primers for the Okazaki fragments made during discontinuous DNA replication. | ||
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| + | == Publication Abstract from PubMed == | ||
| + | DNA charge transport chemistry offers a means of long-range, rapid redox signaling. We demonstrate that the [4Fe4S] cluster in human DNA primase can make use of this chemistry to coordinate the first steps of DNA synthesis. Using DNA electrochemistry, we found that a change in oxidation state of the [4Fe4S] cluster acts as a switch for DNA binding. Single-atom mutations that inhibit this charge transfer hinder primase initiation without affecting primase structure or polymerization. Generating a single base mismatch in the growing primer duplex, which attenuates DNA charge transport, inhibits primer truncation. Thus, redox signaling by [4Fe4S] clusters using DNA charge transport regulates primase binding to DNA and illustrates chemistry that may efficiently drive substrate handoff between polymerases during DNA replication. | ||
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| + | The [4Fe4S] cluster of human DNA primase functions as a redox switch using DNA charge transport.,O'Brien E, Holt ME, Thompson MK, Salay LE, Ehlinger AC, Chazin WJ, Barton JK Science. 2017 Feb 24;355(6327). pii: eaag1789. doi: 10.1126/science.aag1789. PMID:28232525<ref>PMID:28232525</ref> | ||
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| + | From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br> | ||
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| + | == References == | ||
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Revision as of 08:05, 9 March 2017
Crystal structure of Y347F mutant of human primase p58 iron-sulfur cluster domain
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