Peter M. J. Burgers

Pif1 Helicase Lengthens Some Okazaki Fragment Flaps Necessitating Dna2 Nuclease/Helicase Action in the Two-nuclease Processing Pathway (2009)

Pike, Jason E., Burgers, Peter M. J., Campbell, Judith L., Bambara, Robert A.

We have developed a system to reconstitute all of the proposed steps of Okazaki fragment processing using purified yeast proteins and model substrates. DNA polymerase δ was shown to extend an...

Low-fidelity DNA synthesis by the L979F mutator derivative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase {zeta} (2009)

Stone, Jana E., Kissling, Grace E., Lujan, Scott A., Rogozin, Igor B., Stith, Carrie M., Burgers, Peter M. J., ...

To probe Pol ζ functions in vivo via its error signature, here we report the properties of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pol ζ in which phenyalanine was substituted for the conserved Leu-979 in the...

Pif1 helicase directs eukaryotic Okazaki fragments toward the two-nuclease cleavage pathway for primer removal (2008)

Rossi, Marie L., Pike, Jason E., Wang, Wensheng, Burgers, Peter M. J., Campbell, Judith L., Bambara, Robert A.

Eukaryotic Okazaki fragment maturation requires complete removal of the initiating RNA primer before ligation occurs. Polymerase delta (Pol delta) extends the upstream Okazaki fragment and displaces...

Pif1 helicase directs eukaryotic Okazaki fragments toward the two-nuclease cleavage pathway for primer removal (2008)

Rossi, Marie L., Pike, Jason E., Wang, Wensheng, Burgers, Peter M. J., Campbell, Judith L., Bambara, Robert A.

Eukaryotic Okazaki fragment maturation requires complete removal of the initiating RNA primer before ligation occurs. Polymerase delta (Pol delta) extends the upstream Okazaki fragment and displaces...

Partial reconstitution of DNA large loop repair with purified proteins from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2008)

Sommer, Debbie, Stith, Carrie M., Burgers, Peter M. J., Lahue, Robert S.

Small looped mispairs are corrected by DNA mismatch repair. In addition, a distinct process called large loop repair (LLR) corrects heteroduplexes up to several hundred nucleotides in bacteria, yeast...

Uracil recognition by replicative DNA polymerases is limited to the archaea, not occurring with bacteria and eukarya (2008)

Wardle, Josephine, Burgers, Peter M. J., Cann, Isaac K. O., Darley, Kate, Heslop, Pauline, Johansson, Erik, ...

Family B DNA polymerases from archaea such as Pyrococcus furiosus, which live at temperatures ∼100°C, specifically recognize uracil in DNA templates and stall replication in response to this base....

The fidelity of DNA synthesis by yeast DNA polymerase zeta alone and with accessory proteins (2006)

Zhong, Xuejun, Garg, Parie, Stith, Carrie M., McElhinny, Stephanie A. Nick, Kissling, Grace E., Burgers, Peter M. J., ...

DNA polymerase zeta (pol ζ) participates in several DNA transactions in eukaryotic cells that increase spontaneous and damage-induced mutagenesis. To better understand this central role in...

RPA and PCNA suppress formation of large deletion errors by yeast DNA polymerase {delta} (2006)

Fortune, John M., Stith, Carrie M., Kissling, Grace E., Burgers, Peter M. J., Kunkel, Thomas A.

In fulfilling its biosynthetic roles in nuclear replication and in several types of repair, DNA polymerase δ (pol δ) is assisted by replication protein A (RPA), the single-stranded DNA-binding...

RPA and PCNA suppress formation of large deletion errors by yeast DNA polymerase {delta} (2006)

Fortune, John M., Stith, Carrie M., Kissling, Grace E., Burgers, Peter M. J., Kunkel, Thomas A.

In fulfilling its biosynthetic roles in nuclear replication and in several types of repair, DNA polymerase δ (pol δ) is assisted by replication protein A (RPA), the single-stranded DNA-binding...

The fidelity of DNA synthesis by yeast DNA polymerase zeta alone and with accessory proteins (2006)

Zhong, Xuejun, Garg, Parie, Stith, Carrie M., McElhinny, Stephanie A. Nick, Kissling, Grace E., Burgers, Peter M. J., ...

DNA polymerase zeta (pol ζ) participates in several DNA transactions in eukaryotic cells that increase spontaneous and damage-induced mutagenesis. To better understand this central role in...

RPA and PCNA suppress formation of large deletion errors by yeast DNA polymerase {delta} (2006)

Fortune, John M., Stith, Carrie M., Kissling, Grace E., Burgers, Peter M. J., Kunkel, Thomas A.

In fulfilling its biosynthetic roles in nuclear replication and in several types of repair, DNA polymerase δ (pol δ) is assisted by replication protein A (RPA), the single-stranded DNA-binding...

The fidelity of DNA synthesis by yeast DNA polymerase zeta alone and with accessory proteins (2006)

Zhong, Xuejun, Garg, Parie, Stith, Carrie M., McElhinny, Stephanie A. Nick, Kissling, Grace E., Burgers, Peter M. J., ...

DNA polymerase zeta (pol ζ) participates in several DNA transactions in eukaryotic cells that increase spontaneous and damage-induced mutagenesis. To better understand this central role in...

Enzymatic switching for efficient and accurate translesion DNA replication (2004)

McCulloch, Scott D., Kokoska, Robert J., Chilkova, Olga, Welch, Carrie M., Johansson, Erik, Burgers, Peter M. J., ...

When cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers stall DNA replication by DNA polymerase (Pol) δ or ε, a switch occurs to allow translesion synthesis by DNA polymerase η, followed by another switch that...

DNA polymerase {delta}, RFC and PCNA are required for repair synthesis of large looped heteroduplexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2004)

Corrette-Bennett, Stephanie E., Borgeson, Claudia, Sommer, Debbie, Burgers, Peter M. J., Lahue, Robert S.

Small looped mispairs are corrected by DNA mismatch repair (MMR). In addition, a distinct process called large loop repair (LLR) corrects loops up to several hundred nucleotides in extracts of...

Identification of the fifth subunit os Saccharomyces cerevisiae Replication Factor C (1995)

Gary, Sonja L., Burgers, Peter M.J.

Yeast replication factor C (RF-C) is a muttipolypeptide complex required for chromosomal DNA replication. Previously this complex was known to consist of at least four subunits. We here report the...

Mammalian cyclin/PCNA (DNA polymerase {delta} auxiliary protein) stimulates processive DNA synthesis by yeast DNA polymerase III (1988)

Burgers, Peter M.J.

Human cyclin/PCNA (proliferating cell nuclear antigen) is structurally, functionally, and immunologically homologous to the calf thymus auxiliary protein for DNA polymerase δ. This auxiliary protein...

The 3′→5′ exonuclease of DNA polymerase δ can substitute for the 5′ flap endonuclease Rad27/Fen1 in processing Okazaki fragments and preventing genome instability

Jin, Yong Hwan, Obert, Robyn, Burgers, Peter M. J., Kunkel, Thomas A., Resnick, Michael A., Gordenin, Dmitry A.

Many DNA polymerases (Pol) have an intrinsic 3′→5′ exonuclease (Exo) activity which corrects polymerase errors and prevents mutations. We describe a role of the 3′→5′ Exo of Pol δ as a...

Stimulation of 3′→5′ Exonuclease and 3′-Phosphodiesterase Activities of Yeast Apn2 by Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen

Unk, Ildiko, Haracska, Lajos, Gomes, Xavier V., Burgers, Peter M. J., Prakash, Louise, Prakash, Satya

The Apn2 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains 3′→5′ exonuclease and 3′-phosphodiesterase activities, and these activities function in the repair of DNA strand breaks that have...

Yeast Rad17/Mec3/Ddc1: A sliding clamp for the DNA damage checkpoint

Majka, Jerzy, Burgers, Peter M. J.

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad24 and Rad17 checkpoint proteins are part of an early response to DNA damage in a signal transduction pathway leading to cell cycle arrest. Rad24 interacts with the...

Two modes of FEN1 binding to PCNA regulated by DNA

Gomes, Xavier V., Burgers, Peter M.J.

The FEN1 nuclease functions during Okazaki fragment maturation in the eukaryotic cell. Like many other proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)-binding proteins, FEN1 interacts with the interdomain...

Enzymatic switching for efficient and accurate translesion DNA replication

McCulloch, Scott D., Kokoska, Robert J., Chilkova, Olga, Welch, Carrie M., Johansson, Erik, Burgers, Peter M. J., ...

When cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers stall DNA replication by DNA polymerase (Pol) δ or ε, a switch occurs to allow translesion synthesis by DNA polymerase η, followed by another switch that allows...

DNA polymerase δ, RFC and PCNA are required for repair synthesis of large looped heteroduplexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Corrette-Bennett, Stephanie E., Borgeson, Claudia, Sommer, Debbie, Burgers, Peter M. J., Lahue, Robert S.

Small looped mispairs are corrected by DNA mismatch repair (MMR). In addition, a distinct process called large loop repair (LLR) corrects loops up to several hundred nucleotides in extracts of...

Replication Protein A-Directed Unloading of PCNA by the Ctf18 Cohesion Establishment Complex

Bylund, Göran O., Burgers, Peter M. J.

The replication clamp PCNA is loaded around DNA by replication factor C (RFC) and functions in DNA replication and repair. Regulated unloading of PCNA during the progression and termination of DNA...

Roles of yeast DNA polymerases δ and ζ and of Rev1 in the bypass of abasic sites

Haracska, Lajos, Unk, Ildiko, Johnson, Robert E., Johansson, Erik, Burgers, Peter M.J., Prakash, Satya, ...

Abasic (AP) sites are one of the most frequently formed lesions in DNA, and they present a strong block to continued synthesis by the replicative DNA machinery. Here we show efficient bypass of an AP...

The structure of a ring-opened proliferating cell nuclear antigen–replication factor C complex revealed by fluorescence energy transfer

Zhuang, Zhihao, Yoder, Bonita L., Burgers, Peter M. J., Benkovic, Stephen J.

Numerous proteins that function in DNA metabolic pathways are known to interact with the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). The important function of PCNA in stimulating various cellular...

The fidelity of DNA synthesis by yeast DNA polymerase zeta alone and with accessory proteins

Zhong, Xuejun, Garg, Parie, Stith, Carrie M., McElhinny, Stephanie A. Nick, Kissling, Grace E., Burgers, Peter M. J., ...

DNA polymerase zeta (pol ζ) participates in several DNA transactions in eukaryotic cells that increase spontaneous and damage-induced mutagenesis. To better understand this central role in...

RPA and PCNA suppress formation of large deletion errors by yeast DNA polymerase δ

Fortune, John M., Stith, Carrie M., Kissling, Grace E., Burgers, Peter M. J., Kunkel, Thomas A.

In fulfilling its biosynthetic roles in nuclear replication and in several types of repair, DNA polymerase δ (pol δ) is assisted by replication protein A (RPA), the single-stranded DNA-binding...

The 3′→5′ exonuclease of DNA polymerase δ can substitute for the 5′ flap endonuclease Rad27/Fen1 in processing Okazaki fragments and preventing genome instability

Jin, Yong Hwan, Obert, Robyn, Burgers, Peter M. J., Kunkel, Thomas A., Resnick, Michael A., Gordenin, Dmitry A.

Many DNA polymerases (Pol) have an intrinsic 3′→5′ exonuclease (Exo) activity which corrects polymerase errors and prevents mutations. We describe a role of the 3′→5′ Exo of Pol δ as a...

Stimulation of 3′→5′ Exonuclease and 3′-Phosphodiesterase Activities of Yeast Apn2 by Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen

Unk, Ildiko, Haracska, Lajos, Gomes, Xavier V., Burgers, Peter M. J., Prakash, Louise, Prakash, Satya

The Apn2 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains 3′→5′ exonuclease and 3′-phosphodiesterase activities, and these activities function in the repair of DNA strand breaks that have...

Yeast Rad17/Mec3/Ddc1: A sliding clamp for the DNA damage checkpoint

Majka, Jerzy, Burgers, Peter M. J.

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad24 and Rad17 checkpoint proteins are part of an early response to DNA damage in a signal transduction pathway leading to cell cycle arrest. Rad24 interacts with the...

Roles of yeast DNA polymerases δ and ζ and of Rev1 in the bypass of abasic sites

Haracska, Lajos, Unk, Ildiko, Johnson, Robert E., Johansson, Erik, Burgers, Peter M.J., Prakash, Satya, ...

Abasic (AP) sites are one of the most frequently formed lesions in DNA, and they present a strong block to continued synthesis by the replicative DNA machinery. Here we show efficient bypass of an AP...

Two modes of FEN1 binding to PCNA regulated by DNA

Gomes, Xavier V., Burgers, Peter M.J.

The FEN1 nuclease functions during Okazaki fragment maturation in the eukaryotic cell. Like many other proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)-binding proteins, FEN1 interacts with the interdomain...

Enzymatic switching for efficient and accurate translesion DNA replication

McCulloch, Scott D., Kokoska, Robert J., Chilkova, Olga, Welch, Carrie M., Johansson, Erik, Burgers, Peter M. J., ...

When cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers stall DNA replication by DNA polymerase (Pol) δ or ε, a switch occurs to allow translesion synthesis by DNA polymerase η, followed by another switch that allows...

DNA polymerase δ, RFC and PCNA are required for repair synthesis of large looped heteroduplexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Corrette-Bennett, Stephanie E., Borgeson, Claudia, Sommer, Debbie, Burgers, Peter M. J., Lahue, Robert S.

Small looped mispairs are corrected by DNA mismatch repair (MMR). In addition, a distinct process called large loop repair (LLR) corrects loops up to several hundred nucleotides in extracts of...

Replication Protein A-Directed Unloading of PCNA by the Ctf18 Cohesion Establishment Complex

Bylund, Göran O., Burgers, Peter M. J.

The replication clamp PCNA is loaded around DNA by replication factor C (RFC) and functions in DNA replication and repair. Regulated unloading of PCNA during the progression and termination of DNA...

The structure of a ring-opened proliferating cell nuclear antigen–replication factor C complex revealed by fluorescence energy transfer

Zhuang, Zhihao, Yoder, Bonita L., Burgers, Peter M. J., Benkovic, Stephen J.

Numerous proteins that function in DNA metabolic pathways are known to interact with the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). The important function of PCNA in stimulating various cellular...

The fidelity of DNA synthesis by yeast DNA polymerase zeta alone and with accessory proteins

Zhong, Xuejun, Garg, Parie, Stith, Carrie M., McElhinny, Stephanie A. Nick, Kissling, Grace E., Burgers, Peter M. J., ...

DNA polymerase zeta (pol ζ) participates in several DNA transactions in eukaryotic cells that increase spontaneous and damage-induced mutagenesis. To better understand this central role in...

RPA and PCNA suppress formation of large deletion errors by yeast DNA polymerase δ

Fortune, John M., Stith, Carrie M., Kissling, Grace E., Burgers, Peter M. J., Kunkel, Thomas A.

In fulfilling its biosynthetic roles in nuclear replication and in several types of repair, DNA polymerase δ (pol δ) is assisted by replication protein A (RPA), the single-stranded DNA-binding...

A novel function of DNA polymerase ζ regulated by PCNA

Northam, Matthew R, Garg, Parie, Baitin, Dmitri M, Burgers, Peter M J, Shcherbakova, Polina V

DNA polymerase ζ (Polζ) participates in translesion DNA synthesis and is involved in the generation of the majority of mutations induced by DNA damage. The mechanisms that license access of Polζ...

Uracil recognition by replicative DNA polymerases is limited to the archaea, not occurring with bacteria and eukarya

Wardle, Josephine, Burgers, Peter M. J., Cann, Isaac K. O., Darley, Kate, Heslop, Pauline, Johansson, Erik, ...

Family B DNA polymerases from archaea such as Pyrococcus furiosus, which live at temperatures ∼100°C, specifically recognize uracil in DNA templates and stall replication in response to this base....

Partial reconstitution of DNA large loop repair with purified proteins from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Sommer, Debbie, Stith, Carrie M., Burgers, Peter M. J., Lahue, Robert S.

Small looped mispairs are corrected by DNA mismatch repair. In addition, a distinct process called large loop repair (LLR) corrects heteroduplexes up to several hundred nucleotides in bacteria, yeast...

Low-fidelity DNA synthesis by the L979F mutator derivative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase ζ

Stone, Jana E., Kissling, Grace E., Lujan, Scott A., Rogozin, Igor B., Stith, Carrie M., Burgers, Peter M. J., ...

To probe Pol ζ functions in vivo via its error signature, here we report the properties of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pol ζ in which phenyalanine was substituted for the conserved Leu-979 in the...

Pif1 Helicase Directs Eukaryotic Okazaki Fragments toward the Two-nuclease Cleavage Pathway for Primer Removal*

Rossi, Marie L., Pike, Jason E., Wang, Wensheng, Burgers, Peter M. J., Campbell, Judith L., Bambara, Robert A.

Eukaryotic Okazaki fragment maturation requires complete removal of the initiating RNA primer before ligation occurs. Polymerase δ (Pol δ) extends the upstream Okazaki fragment and displaces the...