title: Efficient bypass of a thymine-thymine dimer by yeast DNA polymerase, Poleta.
abstract: The RAD30 gene of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for the error-free postreplicational repair of DNA that has been damaged by ultraviolet irradiation. Here, RAD30 is shown to encode a DNA polymerase that can replicate efficiently past a thymine-thymine cis-syn cyclobutane dimer, a lesion that normally blocks DNA polymerases. When incubated in vitro with all four nucleotides, Rad30 incorporates two adenines opposite the thymine-thymine dimer. Rad30 is the seventh eukaryotic DNA polymerase to be described and hence is named DNA polymerase eta.
authors.affiliation: Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 6.104 Medical Research Building, 11th and Mechanic Streets, Galveston, TX 77555-1061, USA.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Prakash
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Prakash
mesh_terms: D000225:Adenine / Q000378:metabolism; D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000096:biosynthesis; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D003854:Deoxyribonucleotides / Q000378:metabolism; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D019384:Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors; D011740:Pyrimidine Dimers / Q000378:metabolism*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D013698:Templates, Genetic; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays; D000094769:DNA Polymerase iota; D000099270:Y-Family DNA Polymerases