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Two Family B DNA Polymerases From Aeropyrum pernix, Based on Revised Translational Frames

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, April 2018
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Title
Two Family B DNA Polymerases From Aeropyrum pernix, Based on Revised Translational Frames
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Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, April 2018
DOI 10.3389/fmolb.2018.00037
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Katsuya Daimon, Sonoko Ishino, Namiko Imai, Sachiyo Nagumo, Takeshi Yamagami, Hiroaki Matsukawa, Yoshizumi Ishino

Abstract

Living organisms are divided into three domains, Bacteria, Eukarya, and Archaea. Comparative studies in the three domains have provided useful information to understand the evolution of the DNA replication machinery. DNA polymerase is the central enzyme of DNA replication. The presence of multiple family B DNA polymerases is unique in Crenarchaeota, as compared with other archaeal phyla, which have a single enzyme each for family B (PolB) and family D (PolD). We analyzed PolB1 and PolB3 in the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon, Aeropyrum pernix, and found that they are larger proteins than those predicted from the coding regions in our previous study and from public database annotations. The recombinant larger PolBs exhibited the same DNA polymerase activities as previously reported. However, the larger PolB3 showed remarkably higher thermostability, which made this enzyme applicable to PCR. In addition, the high tolerance to salt and heparin suggests that PolB3 will be useful for amplification from the samples with contaminants, and therefore it has a great potential for diagnostic use in the medical and environmental field.

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Unknown 10 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 2 20%
Student > Bachelor 1 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 10%
Researcher 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 20%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 10%
Environmental Science 1 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 10%
Chemistry 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 40%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 April 2018.
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#13,238,691
of 23,043,346 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
#849
of 3,883 outputs
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#147,371
of 296,868 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
#15
of 31 outputs
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