Unique misinsertion specificity of poliota may decrease the mutagenic potential of deaminated cytosines.
DNA polymerase iota (poliota) is a distributive error-prone enzyme that can incorporate nucleotides opposite a variety of DNA lesions. Further elongation is, however, either substantially inhibited or completely abolished. Here, we provide evidence that poliota can facilitate the efficient bypass of uracil and its derivatives as well as oxidized cytosine and guanine residues. The fidelity of translesion replication depends upon the lesion encountered. Correct nucleotides were inserted preferentially opposite 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) and 5-hydroxycytosine (5-OHC). However, when bypassing uracil, 5-hydroxyuracil (5-OHU) or 5,6-dihydrouracil (5,6-DHU), poliota inserted T and G with a 4- to 26-fold preference over the Watson-Crick base, A. While the T:U, T:5-OHU and T:5,6-DHU mispairs were extended poorly, the G:U, G:5-OHU and G:5,6-DHU mispairs were extended with equal or greater efficiency than the correctly paired primer termini. Thus, poliota-dependent misinsertion of G opposite uracil and its derivatives may actually provide a mechanism whereby mammalian cells can decrease the mutagenic potential of lesions formed via the deamination of cytosine.
Vaisman
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Section on DNA Replication, Repair and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-2725, USA.
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D000818:Animals; D020137:Base Pair Mismatch; D020029:Base Pairing; D003596:Cytosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry*; D004249:DNA Damage; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000378:metabolism; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / Q000235:genetics*; D006147:Guanine / Q000737:chemistry; D006151:Guanosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D016296:Mutagenesis; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D013997:Time Factors; D014498:Uracil / Q000737:chemistry; D000094769:DNA Polymerase iota
D017931:DNA Primers; D006151:Guanosine; C046215:8-hydroxyguanosine; D014498:Uracil; D006147:Guanine; C017400:5-hydroxycytosine; D003596:Cytosine; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase; D010100:Oxygen; D000094769:DNA Polymerase iota; C000722070:POLI protein, human