The Translesion DNA Polymerase Theta Plays a Dominant Role in Immunoglobulin Gene Somatic Hypermutation

Overview

Journal EMBO J

Specialties Biotechnology
Molecular Biology

Date 2005 Oct 14

PMID 16222339

Citations 64

Authors

Hong Zan

Naoko Shima

Zhenming Xu

Ahmed Al-Qahtani

Albert J Evinger Iii

Yuan Zhong

John C Schimenti

Paolo Casali

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Abstract

Immunoglobulin (Ig) somatic hypermutation (SHM) critically underlies the generation of high-affinity antibodies. Mutations can be introduced by error-prone polymerases such as polymerase zeta (Rev3), a mispair extender, and polymerase eta, a mispair inserter with a preference for dA/dT, while repairing DNA lesions initiated by AID-mediated deamination of dC to yield dU:dG mismatches. The partial impairment of SHM observed in the absence of these polymerases led us to hypothesize a main role for another translesion DNA polymerase. Here, we show that deletion in C57BL/6J mice of the translesion polymerase theta, which possesses a dual nucleotide mispair inserter-extender function, results in greater than 60% decrease of mutations in antigen-selected V186.2DJ(H) transcripts and greater than 80% decrease in mutations in the Ig H chain intronic J(H)4-iEmu sequence, together with significant alterations in the spectrum of the residual mutations. Thus, polymerase theta plays a dominant role in SHM, possibly by introducing mismatches while bypassing abasic sites generated by UDG-mediated deglycosylation of AID-effected dU, by extending DNA past such abasic sites and by synthesizing DNA during dU:dG mismatch repair.

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