DNA polymerase alpha catalytic subunit

POLA1
Available structures
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Identifiers
Aliases POLA1, NSX, POLA, p180, Polymerase (DNA directed), alpha 1, polymerase (DNA) alpha 1, catalytic subunit
External IDs MGI: 99660 HomoloGene: 6802 GeneCards: POLA1
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

5422

18968

Ensembl

ENSG00000101868

ENSMUSG00000006678

UniProt

P09884

P33609

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_016937

NM_008892

RefSeq (protein)

NP_058633.2

NP_032918.1

Location (UCSC) Chr X: 24.69 – 25 Mb Chr X: 93.3 – 93.63 Mb
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DNA polymerase alpha catalytic subunit is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the POLA1 gene.[3]

Function

Pol α has limited processivity and lacks 3′ exonuclease activity for proofreading errors. Thus it is not well suited to efficiently and accurately copy long templates (unlike Pol Delta and Epsilon). Instead it plays a more limited role in replication. Pol α is responsible for the initiation of DNA replication at origins of replication (on both the leading and lagging strands) and during synthesis of Okazaki fragments on the lagging strand. The Pol α complex (pol α-DNA primase complex) consists of four subunits: the catalytic subunit POLA1, the regulatory subunit POLA2, and the small and the large primase subunits PRIM1 and PRIM2 respectively. Once primase has created the RNA primer, Pol α starts replication elongating the primer with ~20 nucleotides.

In addition to its role during DNA replication, POLA1 plays a role in type I interferon activation. The POLA1 gene was found to be the site of a mutation resulting in X-linked reticulate pigmentary disorder. This leads to altered mRNA splicing and decreased expression of POLA1 protein to a level that does not impair DNA replication. The reduction in POLA1 expression is accompanied by marked reduction in cytosolic RNA:DNA hybrid molecules and a concomitant hyperactivation of the IRF pathway, with consequent overproduction of type I interferons.[4]

Interactions

DNA dependent polymerase alpha (Pol α) has been shown to interact with Retinoblastoma protein,[5] PARP1[6] and RBMS1.[7]

See also

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. "Entrez Gene: POLA1 polymerase (DNA directed), alpha 1".
  4. Starokadomskyy P, Gemelli T, Rios JJ, Xing C, Wang RC, Li H, Pokatayev V, Dozmorov I, Khan S, Miyata N, Fraile G, Raj P, Xu Z, Xu Z, Ma L, Lin Z, Wang H, Yang Y, Ben-Amitai D, Orenstein N, Mussaffi H, Baselga E, Tadini G, Grunebaum E, Sarajlija A, Krzewski K, Wakeland EK, Yan N, de la Morena MT, Zinn AR, Burstein E (2016). "DNA polymerase-α regulates the activation of type I interferons through cytosolic RNA:DNA synthesis". Nature Immunology. doi:10.1038/ni.3409. PMID 27019227.
  5. Takemura M, Kitagawa T, Izuta S, Wasa J, Takai A, Akiyama T, Yoshida S (November 1997). "Phosphorylated retinoblastoma protein stimulates DNA polymerase alpha". Oncogene. 15 (20): 2483–92. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1201431. PMID 9395244.
  6. Dantzer F, Nasheuer HP, Vonesch JL, de Murcia G, Ménissier-de Murcia J (April 1998). "Functional association of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase with DNA polymerase alpha-primase complex: a link between DNA strand break detection and DNA replication". Nucleic Acids Res. 26 (8): 1891–8. doi:10.1093/nar/26.8.1891. PMC 147507Freely accessible. PMID 9518481.
  7. Niki T, Galli I, Ariga H, Iguchi-Ariga SM (June 2000). "MSSP, a protein binding to an origin of replication in the c-myc gene, interacts with a catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase alpha and stimulates its polymerase activity". FEBS Lett. 475 (3): 209–12. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(00)01679-3. PMID 10869558.

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