Names & Taxonomy
- Uniprot ID:
- O75417
- Entry Name:
- DPOLQ_HUMAN
- Status:
- reviewed
- Protein Names:
- DNA polymerase theta (EC 2.7.7.7) (DNA polymerase eta)
- Gene Names:
- POLQ POLH
- Gene Names Primary:
- POLQ
- Organism:
- Homo sapiens (Human)
Structure
- Length:
- 2590
- Sequence:
- MNLLRRSGKRRRSESGSDSFSGSGGDSSASPQFLSGSVLSPPPGLGRCLKAAAAGECKPTVPDYERDKLLLANWGLPKAVLEKYHSFGVKKMFEWQAECLLLGQVLEGKNLVYSAPTSAGKTLVAELLILKRVLEMRKKALFILPFVSVAKEKKYYLQSLFQEVGIKVDGYMGSTSPSRHFSSLDIAVCTIERANGLINRLIEENKMDLLGMVVVDELHMLGDSHRGYLLELLLTKICYITRKSASCQADLASSLSNAVQIVGMSATLPNLELVASWLNAELYHTDFRPVPLLESVKVGNSIYDSSMKLVREFEPMLQVKGDEDHVVSLCYETICDNHSVLLFCPSKKWCEKLADIIAREFYNLHHQAEGLVKPSECPPVILEQKELLEVMDQLRRLPSGLDSVLQKTVPWGVAFHHAGLTFEERDIIEGAFRQGLIRVLAATSTLSSGVNLPARRVIIRTPIFGGRPLDILTYKQMVGRAGRKGVDTVGESILICKNSEKSKGIALLQGSLKPVRSCLQRREGEEVTGSMIRAILEIIVGGVASTSQDMHTYAACTFLAASMKEGKQGIQRNQESVQLGAIEACVMWLLENEFIQSTEASDGTEGKVYHPTHLGSATLSSSLSPADTLDIFADLQRAMKGFVLENDLHILYLVTPMFEDWTTIDWYRFFCLWEKLPTSMKRVAELVGVEEGFLARCVKGKVVARTERQHRQMAIHKRFFTSLVLLDLISEVPLREINQKYGCNRGQIQSLQQSAAVYAGMITVFSNRLGWHNMELLLSQFQKRLTFGIQRELCDLVRVSLLNAQRARVLYASGFHTVADLARANIVEVEVILKNAVPFKSARKAVDEEEEAVEERRNMRTIWVTGRKGLTEREAAALIVEEARMILQQDLVEMGVQWNPCALLHSSTCSLTHSESEVKEHTFISQTKSSYKKLTSKNKSNTIFSDSYIKHSPNIVQDLNKSREHTSSFNCNFQNGNQEHQTCSIFRARKRASLDINKEKPGASQNEGKTSDKKVVQTFSQKTKKAPLNFNSEKMSRSFRSWKRRKHLKRSRDSSPLKDSGACRIHLQGQTLSNPSLCEDPFTLDEKKTEFRNSGPFAKNVSLSGKEKDNKTSFPLQIKQNCSWNITLTNDNFVEHIVTGSQSKNVTCQATSVVSEKGRGVAVEAEKINEVLIQNGSKNQNVYMKHHDIHPINQYLRKQSHEQTSTITKQKNIIERQMPCEAVSSYINRDSNVTINCERIKLNTEENKPSHFQALGDDISRTVIPSEVLPSAGAFSKSEGQHENFLNISRLQEKTGTYTTNKTKNNHVSDLGLVLCDFEDSFYLDTQSEKIIQQMATENAKLGAKDTNLAAGIMQKSLVQQNSMNSFQKECHIPFPAEQHPLGATKIDHLDLKTVGTMKQSSDSHGVDILTPESPIFHSPILLEENGLFLKKNEVSVTDSQLNSFLQGYQTQETVKPVILLIPQKRTPTGVEGECLPVPETSLNMSDSLLFDSFSDDYLVKEQLPDMQMKEPLPSEVTSNHFSDSLCLQEDLIKKSNVNENQDTHQQLTCSNDESIIFSEMDSVQMVEALDNVDIFPVQEKNHTVVSPRALELSDPVLDEHHQGDQDGGDQDERAEKSKLTGTRQNHSFIWSGASFDLSPGLQRILDKVSSPLENEKLKSMTINFSSLNRKNTELNEEQEVISNLETKQVQGISFSSNNEVKSKIEMLENNANHDETSSLLPRKESNIVDDNGLIPPTPIPTSASKLTFPGILETPVNPWKTNNVLQPGESYLFGSPSDIKNHDLSPGSRNGFKDNSPISDTSFSLQLSQDGLQLTPASSSSESLSIIDVASDQNLFQTFIKEWRCKKRFSISLACEKIRSLTSSKTATIGSRFKQASSPQEIPIRDDGFPIKGCDDTLVVGLAVCWGGRDAYYFSLQKEQKHSEISASLVPPSLDPSLTLKDRMWYLQSCLRKESDKECSVVIYDFIQSYKILLLSCGISLEQSYEDPKVACWLLDPDSQEPTLHSIVTSFLPHELPLLEGMETSQGIQSLGLNAGSEHSGRYRASVESILIFNSMNQLNSLLQKENLQDVFRKVEMPSQYCLALLELNGIGFSTAECESQKHIMQAKLDAIETQAYQLAGHSFSFTSSDDIAEVLFLELKLPPNREMKNQGSKKTLGSTRRGIDNGRKLRLGRQFSTSKDVLNKLKALHPLPGLILEWRRITNAITKVVFPLQREKCLNPFLGMERIYPVSQSHTATGRITFTEPNIQNVPRDFEIKMPTLVGESPPSQAVGKGLLPMGRGKYKKGFSVNPRCQAQMEERAADRGMPFSISMRHAFVPFPGGSILAADYSQLELRILAHLSHDRRLIQVLNTGADVFRSIAAEWKMIEPESVGDDLRQQAKQICYGIIYGMGAKSLGEQMGIKENDAACYIDSFKSRYTGINQFMTETVKNCKRDGFVQTILGRRRYLPGIKDNNPYRKAHAERQAINTIVQGSAADIVKIATVNIQKQLETFHSTFKSHGHREGMLQSDQTGLSRKRKLQGMFCPIRGGFFILQLHDELLYEVAEEDVVQVAQIVKNEMESAVKLSVKLKVKVKIGASWGELKDFDV
- Proteomes:
- UP000005640
Subcellular location
- Subcellular Location:
- Nucleus
Function
- Function:
- DNA polymerase that promotes microhomology-mediated end-joining (MMEJ), an alternative non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) machinery triggered in response to double-strand breaks in DNA (PubMed:25642963, PubMed:25643323). MMEJ is an error-prone repair pathway that produces deletions of sequences from the strand being repaired and promotes genomic rearrangements, such as telomere fusions, some of them leading to cellular transformation (PubMed:25642963, PubMed:25643323). POLQ acts as an inhibitor of homology-recombination repair (HR) pathway by limiting RAD51 accumulation at resected ends (PubMed:25642963). POLQ-mediated MMEJ may be required to promote the survival of cells with a compromised HR repair pathway, thereby preventing genomic havoc by resolving unrepaired lesions (By similarity). The polymerase acts by binding directly the 2 ends of resected double-strand breaks, allowing microhomologous sequences in the overhangs to form base pairs. It then extends each strand from the base-paired region using the opposing overhang as a template. Requires partially resected DNA containing 2 to 6 base pairs of microhomology to perform MMEJ (PubMed:25643323). The polymerase activity is highly promiscuous: unlike most polymerases, promotes extension of ssDNA and partial ssDNA (pssDNA) substrates (PubMed:18503084, PubMed:21050863, PubMed:22135286). Also exhibits low-fidelity DNA synthesis, translesion synthesis and lyase activity, and it is implicated in interstrand-cross-link repair, base excision repair and DNA end-joining (PubMed:14576298, PubMed:18503084, PubMed:19188258, PubMed:24648516). Involved in somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes, a process that requires the activity of DNA polymerases to ultimately introduce mutations at both A/T and C/G base pairs (By similarity).
- Catalytic Activity:
- Deoxynucleoside triphosphate + DNA(n) = diphosphate + DNA(n+1).
- Kinetics:
- BIOPHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES: Kinetic parameters: KM=1.095 uM for dATP:T
- Gene Ontology Go:
- chromosome
nucleoplasm
5'-deoxyribose-5-phosphate lyase activity
ATP binding
chromatin binding
damaged DNA binding
DNA-directed DNA polymerase activity
single-stranded DNA-dependent ATPase activity
base-excision repair
cellular response to DNA damage stimulus
DNA biosynthetic process
DNA repair
DNA-dependent DNA replication
double-strand break repair
double-strand break repair via alternative nonhomologous end joining
double-strand break repair via homologous recombination
negative regulation of double-strand break repair via homologous recombination
protein homooligomerization
somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes - Gene Ontology Biological Process:
- base-excision repair
cellular response to DNA damage stimulus
DNA biosynthetic process
DNA-dependent DNA replication
DNA repair
double-strand break repair
double-strand break repair via alternative nonhomologous end joining
double-strand break repair via homologous recombination
negative regulation of double-strand break repair via homologous recombination
protein homooligomerization
somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes - Gene Ontology Molecular Function:
- 5'-deoxyribose-5-phosphate lyase activity
ATP binding
chromatin binding
damaged DNA binding
DNA-directed DNA polymerase activity
single-stranded DNA-dependent ATPase activity - Gene Ontology Cellular Component:
- chromosome
nucleoplasm - Keywords:
- 3D-structure
ATP-binding
Acetylation
Alternative splicing
Chromosome
Coiled coil
Complete proteome
DNA damage
DNA repair
DNA-directed DNA polymerase
Nucleotide-binding
Nucleotidyltransferase
Nucleus
Polymorphism
Reference proteome
Transferase