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Query: EC:2.7.7.7 (DNA polymerase)
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Failure to cleave the interconnecting site between alpha- and beta-subunit produced insulin proreceptors in the plasma membranes which had markedly low affinity to insulin, leading to extreme insulin resistance in a patient. We performed cDNA sequence analysis of the cleavage site of the insulin proreceptor from the patient. Polymerase chain reaction was used to obtain large amount of cDNA coding for the region including the interconnecting site. A thermostable DNA polymerase, Taq polymerase, successfully produced enough amount of cDNA of the region to be sequenced. The results showed AGG (Arg) to AGT (Ser) point mutation, resulting in the change of interconnecting sequence of the two subunits from -Arg-Lys-Arg-Arg- to -Arg-Lys-Arg-Ser-. These results suggest that the tertial structure change of the cleavage site leads to production of unprocessed insulin proreceptors.
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PMID:Insulin resistance by unprocessed insulin proreceptors point mutation at the cleavage site. 328 35

DNA polymerase alpha isolated from adult-derived lymphocytes was separated into isozyme forms with low (A1) and high (A2) specific activity. In quiescent lymphocytes only A1 was detected, while mitogen-stimulated lymphocytes contained both A1 and A2 enzyme. Polymerase alpha A1, but not A2, interacted with phosphatidylinositol, ATP, and phosphatidylinositol kinase to yield an activated enzyme with increased affinity of binding to DNA. Mitogen-stimulated lymphocytes showed increased enzyme protein and total activity for both A1 and A2, but, when pre-treated with cycloheximide, exhibited an apparent increase in A2 specific activity with no increase in activity for A1 polymerase. These data suggest that mitogen stimulation of lymphocytes increased total DNA polymerase alpha activity by the phosphoinositide-related activation of polymerase alpha A1 to an A2-like form and by initiating de-novo synthesis of polymerase alpha A2.
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PMID:DNA polymerase alpha activity in mitogen-activated lymphocytes. 339 Jan 87

Activities of DNA polymerase alpha and beta were assayed in crude extracts prepared from human placenta. Polymerase alpha activity was high in early pregnancy but low during the 2nd trimester. Polymerase beta activity did not change significantly with gestational weeks. The increase in polymerase alpha activity in early pregnancy may be closely related to mitosis at the time of placental formation; there might also be some type of accelerating factor for polymerase in early pregnancy.
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PMID:DNA polymerase activities in human placenta. 367 81

DNA polymerase I* is a form of the DNA polymerase I isolated from Escherichia coli which are expressing recA/lexA (SOS) functions. Induction of recA or polA1 cells by nalidixic acid does not result in the appearance of pol I*, but lexA or recA mutants that are constitutive for SOS functions constitutively express pol I* and mutants which lack functional recA protein produce pol I* when they carry a lexA mutation which renders the lexA repressor inoperative. Pol I* has been induced by nalidixic acid in dinA, dinD, dinF, and umuC mutants. Polymerase I* has a lower affinity for single-stranded DNA-agarose than polymerase I and it sediments through sucrose gradients in a dispersed manner between 6.6-10.5 S, whereas polymerase I sediments at 5 S. Whereas pol I* migrates significantly faster than pol I in nondenaturing polyacrylamide gels, the active polypeptide of both forms migrates at the same rate in denaturing polyacrylamide gels. Compared with polymerase I, polymerase I* has an enhanced capacity to incorporate the adenine analog, 2-amino-purine, into activated salmon sperm DNA and a relatively low fidelity in replicating synthetic polydeoxyribonucleotides. Both the 3'----5' (proofreading) and 5'----3' (nick-translational) exonuclease activities of pol I* and pol I are indistinguishable. Estimates of processivity give a value of approximately 6 for both forms of the enzyme.
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PMID:Characterization of DNA polymerase I*, a form of DNA polymerase I found in Escherichia coli expressing SOS functions. 388 7

DNA polymerase activities from HeLa cells and from cultured diploid human fibroblasts in various growth states were compared. alpha-Polymerase activities from log phase fibroblasts treated with sodium butyrate and from stationary phase HeLa cells had DEAE-cellulose elution patterns that differed from those of polymerases from dividing cells. Moreover, alpha- and beta-polymerases from nondividing cells replicated synthetic polymers less faithfully. Although similar changes were observed previously for polymerases from late-passage and postconfluent early passage fibroblasts, amounts of alpha-polymerase activity recovered from nondividing cells in this study did not dramatically decline as they had in the former cases. The alpha-polymerase activities from HeLa cells and fibroblasts in various growth states sedimented near 7.5S in 0.4 M KCI and could be inhibited by a monoclonal IgG fraction prepared against KB cell alpha-polymerase. By several criteria, there was no significant differences in levels of UV-stimulated repair synthesis observed in early or late-passage postconfluent fibroblasts or in log phase fibroblasts treated with sodium butyrate. In summary, levels of alpha-polymerase do not necessarily correlate either with replicative activity or with apparent levels of repair synthesis. However, cells with decreased replicative activity always yielded enzyme with decreased fidelity in vitro and altered chromatographic behavior. It appears, therefore, that the alterations observed for alpha-polymerase from late-passage cells may be attributed more generally to the nondividing nature of these cells.
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PMID:Studies of DNA polymerases alpha and beta from cultured human cells in various replicative states. 394 1

Inhibition of the ribonucleic acid (RNA)- and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-dependent DNA polymerase activities of mammalian C-type viruses was obtained with sera from rats bearing murine leukemia virus-induced transplant tumors. Polymerase activities of nonmammalian (viper) C-type virus and murine mammary tumor virus were not inhibited by such sera nor by serum from a rat immunized with the DNA polymerase of feline leukemia virus purified by isoelectric focusing. The latter serum appeared to inhibit preferentially the DNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity of mammalian C-type viruses showing no inhibition of RNA-dependent DNA synthesis.
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PMID:Specific inhibition of mammalian ribonucleic acid C-type virus deoxyribonucleic acid polymerases by rat antisera. 433 48

The 3'----5' exonuclease activities of T4 DNA polymerase and the Klenow fragment of Polymerase I towards the phosphoryl and thiophosphoryl 3',5' linkage were examined under comparable conditions of idling-turnover, duplex hydrolysis and turnover during polymerization. With the T4 enzyme there is a negligible effect of thiosubstitution on these activities; with the Klenow fragment there is a greater than one hundred-fold reduction in rate with the thiolinkage for the exonuclease but not polymerization activities. This inability to hydrolyze rapidly the thiophosphoryl linkage extends to the hydrolytic activity of Exonuclease III. The quantitation of the exonuclease activities of these three proteins under various conditions should aid in the successful employment of thiophosphoryl nucleoside triphosphates for their incorporation into DNA.
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PMID:The effect of the 3',5' thiophosphoryl linkage on the exonuclease activities of T4 polymerase and the Klenow fragment. 608 97

Five chromatographically distinct DNA-dependent ATPase activities have been identified in high salt-detergent extracts of the Novikoff hepatoma. One of these, ATPase III, has been purified to apparent homogeneity as judged by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and has a specific activity of 12 mumol of ATP hydrolyzed min-1 (mg of protein)-1. The enzyme, a dimer of Mr 65000 subunits, has a sedimentation coefficient of 7.0 S in both high salt and low salt, a Stokes radius of 43 A, and a frictional coefficient of 1.31. In the presence of Mg2+ ion and a polynucleotide effector, the enzyme catalyzes hydrolysis of ATP or dATP to a diphosphate with a Km of 206 microM and 110 microM, respectively, for the two substrates. Although single-stranded effectors are preferred, the enzyme has significant activity with double-stranded effectors. The Km for effector is 0.4 microM (nucleotide). The analogues adenosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (ATP gamma S), dideoxyadenosine triphosphate (ddATP), and adenosine 5'-(alpha, beta-methylenetriphosphate) (alpha, beta-Me-ATP) are competitive inhibitors of the enzyme while adenosine tetraphosphate (ATP-P), 8-bromoadenosine 5'-triphosphate (8-Br-ATP), 5'-adenylyl imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP), and adenosine 5'-(beta, gamma-methylenetriphosphate) (beta, gamma-Me-ATP) do not inhibit. The enzyme is insensitive to nalidixic acid, novobiocin, and berenil but is sensitive to N-ethylmaleimide. ATPase III is capable of stimulating DNA polymerase beta on duplex DNA, but this effect is abolished in the presence of ATP gamma S. Polymerase stimulation is further enhanced in the presence of a single-stranded DNA-binding protein. These data suggest that ATPase III may play a role in DNA repair.
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PMID:Deoxyribonucleic acid dependent adenosinetriphosphatases from the Novikoff hepatoma. Characterization of a homogeneous adenosinetriphosphatase that stimulates DNA polymerase beta. 612 27

Bleomycin (BLM) is an antitumor drug which interacts with and damages DNA. We have reported a repair response dependent on DNA polymerase I in toluene-treated Escherichia coli. We report here that DNA polymerase III can also catalyze a repair response in toluene-treated E. coli following exposure to BLM. Polymerase III-mediated synthesis differs because it is ATP-dependent, whereas polymerase I-mediated repair synthesis is not. Polymerase III repair synthesis is independent of replicative synthesis, as demonstrated in a polA-, dnaBts strain, or use of Novobiocin to inhibit replication, and replication persists in the presence of repair synthesis. It appears that ATP-dependent repair synthesis in response to BLM is also present in polA+ strains. Repair synthesis does not require the uvrA gene product.
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PMID:DNA polymerase III-dependent repair synthesis in response to bleomycin in toluene-treated Escherichia coli. 616 Mar 70

The roles of DNA polymerases alpha and beta in DNA replication and repair synthesis were studied in permeable animal cells, using different agents to induce repair synthesis. DNA polymerase inhibitors were used to investigate which polymerases were involved in repair synthesis and in replication. Polymerase alpha was responsible for replication. On the other hand, both polymerases alpha and beta were involved in DNA repair synthesis; the extent to which each polymerase participated depended primarily on the agent used to damage DNA. Polymerase beta was primarily responsible for repair synthesis induced by bleomycin or neocarzinostatin, whereas polymerase alpha played a more prominent role in repair synthesis indiced by N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine or N-nitrosomethyl urea. More DNA damage was induced by the alkylating agents than by bleomycin or neocarzinostatin, suggesting that the extent of involvement of polymerase alpha or beta in DNA repair synthesis is related to the amount or type of DNA damage. In addition, salt concentration was found to have little or no effect on the results obtained with the DNA polymerase inhibitors. Our findings provide an explanation for conflicting reports in the literature concerning the roles of DNA polymerases alpha and beta in DNA repair.
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PMID:Evidence that DNA polymerases alpha and beta participate differentially in DNA repair synthesis induced by different agents. 617 69


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