Structural highlights
Function
[DPOLB_HUMAN] Repair polymerase that plays a key role in base-excision repair. Has 5'-deoxyribose-5-phosphate lyase (dRP lyase) activity that removes the 5' sugar phosphate and also acts as a DNA polymerase that adds one nucleotide to the 3' end of the arising single-nucleotide gap. Conducts 'gap-filling' DNA synthesis in a stepwise distributive fashion rather than in a processive fashion as for other DNA polymerases.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites are continuously generated in genomic DNA. Left unrepaired, AP sites represent noninstructional premutagenic lesions that are impediments to DNA synthesis. When DNA polymerases encounter an AP site, they generally insert dAMP. This preferential insertion is referred to as the A-rule. Crystallographic structures of DNA polymerase (pol) beta, a family X polymerase, with active site mismatched nascent base pairs indicate that the templating (i.e. coding) base is repositioned outside of the template binding pocket thereby diminishing interactions with the incorrect incoming nucleotide. This effectively produces an abasic site because the template pocket is devoid of an instructional base. However, the template pocket is not empty; an arginine residue (Arg-283) occupies the space vacated by the templating nucleotide. In this study, we analyze the kinetics of pol beta insertion opposite an AP site and show that the preferential incorporation of dAMP is lost with the R283A mutant. The crystallographic structures of pol beta bound to gapped DNA with an AP site analog (tertrahydrofuran) in the gap (binary complex) and with an incoming nonhydrolyzable dATP analog (ternary complex) were solved. These structures reveal that binding of the dATP analog induces a closed polymerase conformation, an unstable primer terminus, and an upstream shift of the templating residue even in the absence of a template base. Thus, dATP insertion opposite an abasic site and dATP misinsertions have common features.
DNA polymerase beta substrate specificity: side chain modulation of the "A-rule".,Beard WA, Shock DD, Batra VK, Pedersen LC, Wilson SH J Biol Chem. 2009 Nov 13;284(46):31680-9. Epub 2009 Sep 15. PMID:19759017[5]
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See Also
References
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- ↑ Matsumoto Y, Kim K, Katz DS, Feng JA. Catalytic center of DNA polymerase beta for excision of deoxyribose phosphate groups. Biochemistry. 1998 May 5;37(18):6456-64. PMID:9572863 doi:10.1021/bi9727545
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- ↑ Parsons JL, Dianova II, Khoronenkova SV, Edelmann MJ, Kessler BM, Dianov GL. USP47 is a deubiquitylating enzyme that regulates base excision repair by controlling steady-state levels of DNA polymerase beta. Mol Cell. 2011 Mar 4;41(5):609-15. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.02.016. PMID:21362556 doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2011.02.016
- ↑ Beard WA, Shock DD, Batra VK, Pedersen LC, Wilson SH. DNA polymerase beta substrate specificity: side chain modulation of the "A-rule". J Biol Chem. 2009 Nov 13;284(46):31680-9. Epub 2009 Sep 15. PMID:19759017 doi:10.1074/jbc.M109.029843
