MISALIGNMENT-MEDIATED DNA-SYNTHESIS ERRORS
MISALIGNMENT-MEDIATED DNA-SYNTHESIS ERRORS
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00487a001
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发表时间:
1990-09-04
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影响因子:
2.9
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KUNKEL, TA
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作者:
KUNKEL, TA
Revised Manuscript Received May 25, 1990 (jTenetic information can be altered not only by substituting one base for another but also by adding or deleting one or more nucleotides. Just as for base-substitution mutations, frame-shift1 mutations can be either beneficial or detrimental to an organism. Thus, understanding how these are generated or avoided is important. Included among possible mechanisms for producing frame-shift mutations is aberrant DNA polymerization. For over 2 decades, studies of the fidelity of DNA synthesis in vitro have focused heavily on base-substitution errors, primarily because several sensitive methodologies were developed for their detection [for review, see Loeb and Kunkel (1982) and Goodman (1988)]. Consequently, much of our understanding of how geneticmaterial is replicated and maintained with high fidelity is flavored with the reasoning associated with base miscoding. Only within the past 5 years have assays been developed to study frame-shift fidelity during DNA synthesis in vitro. This review focuses on how infor-mation obtained from these frame-shift fidelity assays has influenced our understanding of mutagenesis resulting from template-primer misalignments during DNA synthesis. Four Pathways for DNA Synthesis Errors. Starting with the simplest frame-shift mutation, a minus-one-nucleotide error, consider what can go wrong during a DNA polymerization reaction on the template-primer shown in Figure 1. The pathway that has receivedthe most experimental attention over the past 2 decades begins with misincorporation of a nucleotide (pathway B, for Base substitution). When this is followed by extension from the mispair (pathway BB) to fix the error, a base-substitution mutation can result. The subject of this review is the evidence for the other three pathways, all of which use a misaligned template-primer. For example, in the appropriate sequence context, ie, when the misincorpo-