PERSPECTIVES ANDUMMARY .............................................................. 435 BIOLOGY OFMISMATCH ORRECTION ................................................... 437 Evidence for Mismatch Processing in Vivo .................................................. 437 Postreplication Repair of Biosynthetic Errors ............................................... 438 dam-Independent Mismatch Cor...

The molecular mechanisms of the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) system have been uncovered over the last decade, especially in prokaryotes. The results obtained for prokaryotic MMR proteins have provided a framework for the study of the MMR system in eukaryotic organisms, such as yeast, mouse and human, because the functions of MMR proteins have been conserved during evolution from bacteria to humans...

We have measured the mutation rates of G(17) and A(17) repeat sequences in cultured mammalian cells with and without mismatch repair and have compared these rates to those of a (CA)(17) repeat sequence. Plasmids containing microsatellites that disrupt the reading frame of a downstream neomycin-resistance gene were introduced into the cells by transfection and revertants were selected using the ...

UV damage endonuclease (Uve1p) from Schizosaccharomyces pombe was initially described as a DNA repair enzyme specific for the repair of UV light-induced photoproducts and proposed as the initial step in an alternative excision repair pathway. Here we present biochemical and genetic evidence demonstrating that Uve1p is also a mismatch repair endonuclease which recognizes and cleaves DNA 5' to th...

Genetic and biochemical studies have previously implicated exonuclease 1 (Exo1) in yeast and mammalian mismatch repair, with results suggesting that function of the protein in the reaction depends on both its hydrolytic activity and its ability to interact with other components of the repair system. However, recent analysis of an Exo1-E109K knockin mouse has concluded that Exo1 function in mamm...

Tumors defective for DNA polymerase (Pol) e proofreading have the highest tumor mutation burden identified. A major unanswered question is whether loss of Pol e proofreading by itself is sufficient to drive this mutagenesis, or whether additional factors are necessary. To address this, we used a combination of next generation sequencing and in vitro biochemistry on human cell lines engineered t...

DNA mismatch binding in vitro, resistance to DNA methylation damage, and spontaneous mutation rates were examined in human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell lines. Of 11 cell lines, 3 (DLD1, HCT15, and LoVo) were defective in mismatch binding. All three lines had a mutator phenotype. These properties indicate that DLD1 and HCT15 may, like LoVo, carry mutations in the mismatch recognition protein h...

Mismatch repair reverses replication errors and inhibits recombination between diverged sequences. This has been suggested to be important in speciation, especially in prokaryotes, but theoretical analysis indicates that genetic divergence in bacterial populations is not constrained by naturally occurring recombination levels.

The hemimethylated d(GATC) sequence that directs Escherichia coli mismatch repair can reside on either side of a mismatch at a separation distance of 1,000 bp or more. Initiation of repair involves the mismatch-, MutS-, and MutL-dependent activation of MutH endonuclease, which incises the unmethylated strand at the d(GATC) sequence, with the ensuing strand break serving as the loading site for ...