Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5511027 | DNA Repair | 2017 | 9 Pages |
â¢Human PrimPol binds DNA with a 34-fold higher affinity with Mn2+ than with Mg2+.â¢PrimPol incorporates correct dNTPs with 100-fold higher efficiency with Mn2+ than with Mg2+.â¢The substitution fidelity of PrimPol is 100-1000 fold lower with Mn2+ than with Mg2+.â¢The sugar selectivity of PrimPol is 57-1800 with Mn2+ and 150-4500 with Mg2+.â¢PrimPol incorporates cytarabine and gemcitabine, but not emtricitabine and lamivudine.
Human PrimPol is a recently discovered bifunctional enzyme that displays DNA template-directed primase and polymerase activities. PrimPol has been implicated in nuclear and mitochondrial DNA replication fork progression and restart as well as DNA lesion bypass. Published evidence suggests that PrimPol is a Mn2+-dependent enzyme as it shows significantly improved primase and polymerase activities when binding Mn2+, rather than Mg2+, as a divalent metal ion cofactor. Consistently, our fluorescence anisotropy assays determined that PrimPol binds to a primer/template DNA substrate with affinities of 29 and 979Â nM in the presence of Mn2+ and Mg2+, respectively. Our pre-steady-state kinetic analysis revealed that PrimPol incorporates correct dNTPs with 100-fold higher efficiency with Mn2+ than with Mg2+. Notably, the substitution fidelity of PrimPol in the presence of Mn2+ was determined to be in the range of 3.4Â ÃÂ 10â2 to 3.8Â ÃÂ 10â1, indicating that PrimPol is an error-prone polymerase. Furthermore, we kinetically determined the sugar selectivity of PrimPol to be 57-1800 with Mn2+ and 150-4500 with Mg2+, and found that PrimPol was able to incorporate the triphosphates of two anticancer drugs (cytarabine and gemcitabine), but not two antiviral drugs (emtricitabine and lamivudine).
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