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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Biol. 2010 Sep 21;403(4):505–515. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.09.014

Table 3.

Kinetic parameters for incorrect nucleotide incorporation (dGTP) into single-nucleotide gapped DNA (D-1) catalyzed by human Pol λ at 37 °C.

Pol λ
mutant
kp
(s−1)
Kd
(µM)
kp/Kd
(µM−1s−1)
Kd
ratioa
Fidelityb
WTc (4.0 ± 0.2) ×
10−4
3.2 ± 0.5 1.3 × 10−4 - 8.3 × 10−5
R386A (1.55 ±
0.06) × 10−3
50 ± 10 3.1 × 10−5 16 3.6 × 10−4
R386E No observed incorporation
R420A (1.1 ± 0.2) ×
10−4
800 ± 200 1.4 × 10−7 250 8.1 × 10−3
K422A (6.3 ± 0.3) ×
10−4
8 ± 1 7.9 × 10−5 3 3.4 × 10−4
Y505G (1.23 ±
0.07) × 10−3
60 ± 10 2.1 × 10−5 19 2.0 × 10−5
Y505A (7.5 ± 0.2) ×
10−4
30 ± 3 2.5 × 10−5 9 1.9 × 10−5
F506A (2.9 ± 0.3) ×
10−4
19 ± 6 1.5 × 10−5 6 6.0 × 10−6
A510E (1.02 ±
0.03) × 10−2
15 ± 2 6.8 × 10−4 5 1.4 × 10−3
R514A (8.2 ± 0.8) ×
10−4
80 ± 20 1.0 × 10−5 25 1.1 × 10−5
R517A (1.5 ± 0.1) ×
10−3
1.0 ± 0.3 1.5 × 10−3 0.3 1.1 × 10−1
R386A/A510E (6.9 ± 0.6) ×
10−3
170 ± 40 4.1 × 10−5 53 2.3 × 10−3
R386A/R514A (7 ± 1) × 10
4
320 ± 90 2.2 × 10−6 100 6.4 × 10−5
a

Calculated as (Kd) Mutant/( Kd )WT.

b

Calculated as (kp/Kd)Incorrect/[(kp/Kd)Correct + (kp/Kd)Incorrect].

c

The kinetic parameters for WT Pol λ are from the work of Fiala et al.12