Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on February 1, 2006.

Genetics, Vol. 172, 2689-2694, April 2006, Copyright © 2006
doi:10.1534/genetics.105.053512

Mismatch Tolerance by DNA Polymerase Pol4 in the Course of Nonhomologous End Joining in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

* Laboratoire de Radiobiologie de l'ADN, Service de Radiobiologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UMR217 du CNRS, CEA/Fontenay, 92260 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France and {dagger} Laboratoire du Contrôle du Cycle Cellulaire, Service de Biochimie et de Génétique Moléculaire, CEA/Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

1 Corresponding author: Laboratoire de Radiobiologie de l'ADN, Service de Radiobiologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UMR217 du CNRS, Bat. 5 pA220, CEA/Fontenay, 92260 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France.
E-mail: stephane.marcand{at}cea.fr

In yeast, the nonhomologous end joining pathway (NHEJ) mobilizes the DNA polymerase Pol4 to repair DNA double-strand breaks when gap filling is required prior to ligation. Using telomere–telomere fusions caused by loss of the telomeric protein Rap1 and double-strand break repair on transformed DNA as assays for NHEJ between fully uncohesive ends, we show that Pol4 is able to extend a 3'-end whose last bases are mismatched, i.e., mispaired or unpaired, to the template strand.




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