An updated structural classification of replicative DNA polymerases

P Raia, M Delarue, L Sauguet - Biochemical Society …, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Replicative DNA polymerases are nano-machines essential to life, which have evolved the
ability to copy the genome with high fidelity and high processivity. In contrast with cellular …

Evolution of replicative DNA polymerases in archaea and their contributions to the eukaryotic replication machinery

KS Makarova, M Krupovic, EV Koonin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The elaborate eukaryotic DNA replication machinery evolved from the archaeal ancestors
that themselves show considerable complexity. Here we discuss the comparative genomic …

Archaeal DNA replication

LM Kelman, Z Kelman - Annual review of genetics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
DNA replication is essential for all life forms. Although the process is fundamentally
conserved in the three domains of life, bioinformatic, biochemical, structural, and genetic …

Shared active site architecture between archaeal PolD and multi-subunit RNA polymerases revealed by X-ray crystallography

L Sauguet, P Raia, G Henneke, M Delarue - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Archaeal replicative DNA polymerase D (PolD) constitute an atypical class of DNA
polymerases made of a proofreading exonuclease subunit (DP1) and a larger polymerase …

Family D DNA polymerase interacts with GINS to promote CMG-helicase in the archaeal replisome

K Oki, M Nagata, T Yamagami, T Numata… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Genomic DNA replication requires replisome assembly. We show here the molecular
mechanism by which CMG (GAN–MCM–GINS)-like helicase cooperates with the family D …

Characterization of Family D DNA polymerase from Thermococcus sp. 9°N

L Greenough, JF Menin, NS Desai, Z Kelman… - Extremophiles, 2014 - Springer
Accurate DNA replication is essential for maintenance of every genome. All archaeal
genomes except Crenarchaea, encode for a member of Family B (polB) and Family D (polD) …

Novel inhibition of archaeal family-D DNA polymerase by uracil

TT Richardson, L Gilroy, Y Ishino… - Nucleic Acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Archaeal family-D DNA polymerase is inhibited by the presence of uracil in DNA template
strands. When the enzyme encounters uracil, following three parameters change: DNA …

PCR performance of a thermostable heterodimeric archaeal DNA polymerase

T Killelea, C Ralec, A Bossé, G Henneke - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
DNA polymerases are versatile tools used in numerous important molecular biological core
technologies like the ubiquitous polymerase chain reaction (PCR), cDNA cloning, genome …

Elucidating functions of DP1 and DP2 subunits from the Thermococcus kodakarensis family D DNA polymerase

N Takashima, S Ishino, K Oki, M Takafuji, T Yamagami… - Extremophiles, 2019 - Springer
DNA polymerase D (PolD), originally discovered in Pyrococcus furiosus, has no sequence
homology with any other DNA polymerase family. Genes encoding PolD are found in most of …

[HTML][HTML] Novel structure of an N-terminal domain that is crucial for the dimeric assembly and DNA-binding of an archaeal DNA polymerase D large subunit from …

I Matsui, Y Urushibata, Y Shen, E Matsui, H Yokoyama - FEBS letters, 2011 - Elsevier
Archaea-specific D-family DNA polymerase forms a heterotetramer consisting of two large
polymerase subunits and two small exonuclease subunits. The N-terminal (1–300) domain …