The major roles of DNA polymerases epsilon and delta at the eukaryotic replication fork are evolutionarily conserved.
The major roles of DNA polymerases epsilon and delta at the eukaryotic replication fork are evolutionarily conserved.
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1002407
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2011-12
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4.5
通讯作者:
Carr AM
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Miyabe I;Kunkel TA;Carr AM
Coordinated replication of eukaryotic genomes is intrinsically asymmetric, with continuous leading strand synthesis preceding discontinuous lagging strand synthesis. Here we provide two types of evidence indicating that, in fission yeast, these two biosynthetic tasks are performed by two different replicases. First, in Schizosaccharomyces pombe strains encoding a polδ-L591M mutator allele, base substitutions in reporter genes placed in opposite orientations relative to a well-characterized replication origin are strand-specific and distributed in patterns implying that Polδ is primarily involved in lagging strand replication. Second, in strains encoding a polε-M630F allele and lacking the ability to repair rNMPs in DNA due to a defect in RNase H2, rNMPs are selectively observed in nascent leading strand DNA. The latter observation demonstrates that abundant rNMP incorporation during replication can be tolerated and that they are normally removed in an RNase H2-dependent manner. This provides strong physical evidence that Polε is the primary leading strand replicase. Collectively, these data and earlier results in budding yeast indicate that the major roles of Polδ and Polε at the eukaryotic replication fork are evolutionarily conserved. It is important to understand the architecture of the DNA replication machinery and whether this is common to all organisms. Recent work in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has genetically assigned specific DNA polymerases to leading and lagging strand DNA synthesis, Polε and Polε respectively. In this manuscript, we use a similar genetic assay to demonstrate that, in the highly evolutionarily diverged yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Polδ is similarly responsible for lagging strand synthesis. Importantly, we establish a novel physical assay, the incorporation of rNMPs into newly replicated DNA, which demonstrates that Polε is responsible for leading strand synthesis and does not contribute significantly to lagging strand replication. These data strongly support and consolidate the interpretation of previous genetic data and suggest that the division of labour between polymerases is conserved through evolution.
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