Cloning, expression and characterization of human tissue-specific DNA polymerase λ2

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作者：

Fu Gu

Chun You

JianPing Liu

Ao Chen

Yao Yu

Xiang Wang

DaFang Wan

JianRen Gu

HanYing Yuan

YuYang Li

Hong Lü

机构：

[1] Fudan University,State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Institute of Genetics, School of Life Sciences

[2] Shanghai Cancer Institute,State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes

[3] Food Inspection and Supervision Institute of Shanxi Province,undefined

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Science in China Series C: Life Sciences | 2007年 / 50卷

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POL λ2; gene cloning; expression; purification; DNA polymerase activity; hepatocellular carcinoma;

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DNA polymerase (POL) λ plays an important role during DNA repair and DNA nonhomologous recombination processes. A novel POL λ variant was cloned from a human liver cDNA library and named POL λ2 (GenBank Accession No. AY302442). POL λ2 has 2206 base pairs in length with an open reading frame of 1452 base pairs encoding a 482-amino-acids protein. Bioinformatics analysis reveals that POL λ2 spans 7.9 kb on human chromosome 10q24 and is composed of 8 exons and 7 introns. It has the specific domain of DNA polymerase X family-POL Xc at the C-terminus and BRCT domain at the N-terminus. POL λ2 was localized predominantly in nucleus in transfected L0–2 cells. It was expressed abundantly in liver and testis, weakly in ovary, and undetectably in other tested human tissues. In comparison with the expression ratio between POL λ and POL λ2 in normal liver tissues and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) adjacent tissues, the ratio was aberrant in 80% of those 15 HCC specimens examined due to the up-regulated expression of POL λ. This abnormality might be involved in hepatocarcinogenesis. The recombinant POL λ2 with His-tag was expressed as a soluble active protein in E. coli BL21 (DE3)CONDON Plus and purified by Ni-NTA resin and then desalted by Superdex-75 chromatography in an FPLC system. The analysis using isotope a-32P-dCTP incorporation in vitro showed that the purified recombinant POL λ2 exhibited DNA polymerase activity.

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