Enzymatic repair of an expanded genetic information system
- 1 September 2003
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 31 (17), 5048-5053
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkg709
Abstract
The excision repair machinery of a thermophilic bacterium has been shown to recognize and repair an expanded genetic base pair. Native Thermus aquaticus DNA polymerase will remove a mispaired natural base and replace it with a non-natural base to form an expanded base pair. In addition, DNA ligase will recognize a nick formed by polymerase between two non-natural base pairs and covalently attach the two strands, thus demonstrating com- plete repair of a bifurcated base-paired model duplex. These results add evidence to the idea that the cellular replication and repair machinery of an organism containing an expanded genetic alphabet could recognize and properly repair a site containing consecutive unnatural bases.Keywords
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