The mechanisms by which translesion DNA polymerases mediate DNA repair are incompletely understood. A new study shows that Escherichia coli DNA polymerase IV is concentrated at the sites of arrested DNA synthesis by an interaction with SSB, the major single-stranded DNA-binding protein, specifically at stalled but not ongoing replication forks.
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Sale, J.E. Focus and persistence: how Pol IV unblocks stalled DNA synthesis. Nat Struct Mol Biol 29, 846–847 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-022-00825-4
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