Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

PAXX and its paralogs synergistically direct DNA polymerase λ activity in DNA repair

  • Andrew Craxton,
  • Deeksha Munnur,
  • Rebekah Jukes-Jones,
  • George Skalka,
  • Claudia Langlais,
  • Kelvin Cain,
  • Michal Malewicz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06127-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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PAXX functions as part of the nonhomologous end-joining pathway to repair double-strand DNA breaks. Here the authors show PAXX and its paralogs interact with polymerase lambda to promote joining of incompatible ends.