著者

橋本 博 菱木 麻美 原 幸大 菊池 壮太郎

出版者

一般社団法人 日本生物物理学会

雑誌

生物物理 (ISSN:05824052)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.57, no.1, pp.015-019, 2017 (Released:2017-01-26)

参考文献数

20

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DNA damage tolerance (DTT) is a cell function to avoid replication arrest by DNA damage during DNA replication. DTT includes two pathways, translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) and template-switched DNA synthesis (TS), regulated by various molecular interactions. TLS is transient DNA synthesis using a damaged template by error-prone DNA polymerases specialized for DNA damage (TLS polymerases). TS, in which one newly synthesized strand is utilized as an undamaged template for replication by replicative polymerases, is error-free process. This review article describes recent progress in structural studies of proteins involved in TLS and TS.