Figure 1. The replisome is inherently tolerant of a leading‐strand Tg lesion.
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ASchematic of the ARS306 leading‐strand lesion template showing the origin of replication (Ori) and leading‐ (red) and lagging‐strand (blue) replication products. The SmaI restriction site is shown; cleavage is used to reduce heterogeneity in product sizes for denaturing gel analysis.
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BSchematic of the uncoupled fork and uncoupled product generated by persistent stalling of leading‐strand synthesis.
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C, DStandard replication assays on undamaged (UD), thymine glycol (Tg) and cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) templates in the presence (C) and absence (D) of Pol η, Pol ζ, Rev1, Rad6–Rad18, Uba1 and ubiquitin (TLS machinery). Reactions contained 2.5 nM Pol δ.