Structural consequence of the most frequently recurring cancer-associated substitution in DNA polymerase ε

Mutations in the human POLE gene are associated with tumours with high mutational loads. Here the authors provide a structural rationale for the mutagenic activity of the cancer-associated DNA polymerase ε P286R variant.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vimal Parkash, Yashraj Kulkarni, Josy ter Beek, Polina V. Shcherbakova, Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, Erik Johansson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08114-9