Expression of the cancer-associated DNA polymerase ϵ P286R in fission yeast leads to translesion synthesis polymerase dependent hypermutation and defective DNA replication
I. Soriano, E. Vazquez, N. de Leon, S. Betrand, E. Heitzer, S. Toumazou, C. Palles, C.-C. Pai, T. Humphrey, I. Tomlinson, S. Cotterill, S. Kearsey
This paper models the POLE-P286R mutation in fission yeast, showing it causes hypermutation, DNA replication defects, and dependence on translesion synthesis polymerases.
bioRxiv · Apr 6, 2021Cancer Biology