Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Structure of the polymerase ε holoenzyme and atomic model of the leading strand replisome

  • Zuanning Yuan,
  • Roxana Georgescu,
  • Grant D. Schauer,
  • Michael E. O’Donnell,
  • Huilin Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16910-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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DNA polymerase epsilon (Pol ε) is responsible for leading strand synthesis during DNA replication. Here the authors use Cryo-EM to describe the architecture of the Pol ε holoenzyme and to provide an atomic model for the leading strand replisome.