Crystal structures of DNA polymerase I capture novel intermediates in the DNA synthesis pathway

  1. Nicholas Chim
  2. Lynnette N Jackson
  3. Anh M Trinh
  4. John C Chaput  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of California, Irvine, United States

Abstract

High resolution crystal structures of DNA polymerase intermediates are needed to study the mechanism of DNA synthesis in cells. Here we report five crystal structures of DNA polymerase I that capture new conformations for the polymerase translocation and nucleotide pre-insertion steps in the DNA synthesis pathway. We suggest that these new structures, along with previously solved structures, highlight the dynamic nature of the finger subdomain in the enzyme active site.

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Coordinates and structure factors have been deposited in the PDB with the accession codes: 6DSU, 6DSV, 6DSW, 6DSX, and 6DSY.

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  1. Nicholas Chim

    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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  2. Lynnette N Jackson

    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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  3. Anh M Trinh

    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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  4. John C Chaput

    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (N66001-16-2-4061)

  • John C Chaput

National Science Foundation (1607111)

  • John C Chaput

National Institutes of Health (R25GM055246)

  • Lynnette N Jackson

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. John Kuriyan, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Version history

  1. Received: July 25, 2018
  2. Accepted: October 18, 2018
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: October 19, 2018 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: November 12, 2018 (version 2)

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© 2018, Chim et al.

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  1. Nicholas Chim
  2. Lynnette N Jackson
  3. Anh M Trinh
  4. John C Chaput
(2018)
Crystal structures of DNA polymerase I capture novel intermediates in the DNA synthesis pathway
eLife 7:e40444.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40444

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