Polymerase θ is a robust terminal transferase that oscillates between three different mechanisms during end-joining

DNA polymerase θ (Polθ) promotes insertion mutations during alternative end-joining (alt-EJ) by an unknown mechanism. Here, we discover that mammalian Polθ transfers nucleotides to the 3’ terminus of DNA during alt-EJ in vitro and in vivo by oscillating between three different modes of terminal tran...

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Main Authors: Tatiana Kent, Pedro A Mateos-Gomez, Agnel Sfeir, Richard T Pomerantz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2016-06-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/13740