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Watching a double strand break repair polymerase insert a pro-mutagenic oxidized nucleotide.

<div class='caption-title'>Base-pairing and specificity of 8-oxodGTP insertion.</div>
<div class='caption-title'>dGTP insertion opposite adenine and cytosine.</div>
<div class='caption-title'>8-oxodGTP insertion opposite At.</div>
Jamsen JA, Sassa A, Shock DD, Beard WA, Wilson SH
OpenAccess logo Nat Commun 12 2059 (2021)

Cited: 7 times
EuropePMC logo PMID: 33824325

Abstract

Oxidized dGTP (8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2´-deoxyguanosine triphosphate, 8-oxodGTP) insertion by DNA polymerases strongly promotes cancer and human disease. How DNA polymerases discriminate against oxidized and undamaged nucleotides, especially in error-prone double strand break (DSB) repair, is poorly understood. High-resolution time-lapse X-ray crystallography snapshots of DSB repair polymerase μ undergoing DNA synthesis reveal that a third active site metal promotes insertion of oxidized and undamaged dGTP in the canonical anti-conformation opposite template cytosine. The product metal bridged O8 with product oxygens, and was not observed in the syn-conformation opposite template adenine (At). Rotation of At into the syn-conformation enabled undamaged dGTP misinsertion. Exploiting metal and substrate dynamics in a rigid active site allows 8-oxodGTP to circumvent polymerase fidelity safeguards to promote pro-mutagenic double strand break repair.

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