Nature Communications (May 2020)

DNA polymerase ε relies on a unique domain for efficient replisome assembly and strand synthesis

  • Xiangzhou Meng,
  • Lei Wei,
  • Sujan Devbhandari,
  • Tuo Zhang,
  • Jenny Xiang,
  • Dirk Remus,
  • Xiaolan Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16095-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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DNA polymerase epsilon (Pol ε) synthesizes half of the genome in every cell cycle. Here the authors uncover a dual role of a unique domain within the Pol ε catalytic core in replisome assembly and DNA synthesis and the impact of this domain on genome stability.