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Evolution Of Dna Polymerases: An Inactivated Polymerase-Exonuclease Module In Pol Ε&#;And A Chimeric Origin Of Eukaryotic Polymerases From Two Classes Of Archaeal Ancestors, Tahir Tahirov, Kira Makarova, Igor Rogozin, Youri Pavlov, Eugene Koonin
Evolution Of Dna Polymerases: An Inactivated Polymerase-Exonuclease Module In Pol Ε&#;And A Chimeric Origin Of Eukaryotic Polymerases From Two Classes Of Archaeal Ancestors, Tahir Tahirov, Kira Makarova, Igor Rogozin, Youri Pavlov, Eugene Koonin
Papers in Evolution
Background: Evolution of DNA polymerases, the key enzymes of DNA replication and repair, is central to any reconstruction of the history of cellular life. However, the details of the evolutionary relationships between DNA polymerases of archaea and eukaryotes remain unresolved.
Results: We performed a comparative analysis of archaeal, eukaryotic, and bacterial B-family DNA polymerases, which are the main replicative polymerases in archaea and eukaryotes, combined with an analysis of domain architectures. Surprisingly, we found that eukaryotic Polymerase ε consists of two tandem exonuclease-polymerase modules, the active N-terminal module and a C-terminal module in which both enzymatic domains are inactivated. The …