Research Article

Pre-Steady-State Kinetic Analysis of Truncated and Full-Length Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA Polymerase Eta

Table 3

Kinetic parameters of nucleotide incorporation into D-DNA catalyzed by truncated yPol 𝜂 at 23°C.

dNTPkp (s-1)Kd ( 𝜇 M)kp/Kd( 𝜇 M-1s-1)Discrimination Facto r a Fidelit y b

Template dA (D-1)
dTTP3.9 ± 0.215 ± 22.6 × 10-1
dATP0.089 ± 0.00580 ± 201.1 × 10-32304.3 × 10-3
dCTP0.43 ± 0.06210 ± 602.0 × 10-31307.8 × 10-3
dGTP0.15 ± 0.0180 ± 201.9 × 10-31407.2 × 10-3

Template dG (D-6)
dCTP15.6 ± 0.311.2 ± 0.81.4
dATP0.071 ± 0.002138 ± 95.1 × 10-427003.7 × 10-4
dGTP0.116 ± 0.00680 ± 101.5 × 10-39601.0 × 10-3
dTTP0.92 ± 0.07330 ± 402.8 × 10-35002.0 × 10-3

Template dT (D-7)
dATP6.9 ± 0.417 ± 34.1 × 10-1
dCTP1.00 ± 0.04210 ± 204.8 × 10-3851.2 × 10-2
dGTP0.55 ± 0.0146 ± 31.2 × 10-2302.9 × 10-2
dTTP0.62 ± 0.02280 ± 202.2 × 10-31805.4 × 10-3

Template dC (D-8)
dGTP6.3 ± 0.16.8 ± 0.49.3 × 10-1
dATP0.087 ± 0.00390 ± 109.7 × 10-49601.0 × 10-3
dCTP0.127 ± 0.007200 ± 306.4 × 10-415006.9 × 10-4
dTTP1.39 ± 0.06460 ± 403.0 × 10-33103.3 × 10-3

a C alculated as ( 𝑘 𝑝 / 𝐾 𝑑 ) c o r r e c t / ( 𝑘 𝑝 / 𝐾 𝑑 ) i n c o r r e c t .
b C alculated as ( 𝑘 𝑝 / 𝐾 𝑑 ) i n c o r r e c t / [ ( 𝑘 𝑝 / 𝐾 𝑑 ) c o r r e c t + ( 𝑘 𝑝 / 𝐾 𝑑 ) i n c o r r e c t ] .