# HG changeset patch # User Steve Losh # Date 1698416474 14400 # Node ID 7ea062c007d4970b79238631d677e6d498753070 # Parent c1d7616fa5bda98fbbaa9e0bf0b3e50d5cf9f190 Update diff -r c1d7616fa5bd -r 7ea062c007d4 README.markdown --- a/README.markdown Thu Oct 26 21:05:30 2023 -0400 +++ b/README.markdown Fri Oct 27 10:21:14 2023 -0400 @@ -529,3 +529,24 @@ Started reading the next HG545 paper and glanced over the slides. I wish we had lectures recorded like the last module. + +## 2023-10-27 + +HG545 lecture. New module starts today, on replication. + +There's more than just one DNA Polymerase. Three main ones are called α, δ, and +ε. Roughly, α starts, then hands off to δ. On the lagging strand, that's all +it has time for before it falls off and the process starts again for the next +Okazaki fragment. But on the leading strand, δ has time to hand off to ε, which +is much more stable and can continue along the strand. + +Proofreading and mismatch repair are both very important. The initial +polymerization process has an error rate somewhere around 10⁻⁶. Mismatch repair +happens *in-line* with the replication process: DNA Pol doesn't like continuing +from a mismatch based, so most of the time it will pause for a bit and the +proofreading machinery that's also in the replication complex will chomp off the +bad base, then DNA Pol will continue. Mismatch repair happens separately: one +protein recognizes the mismatch and recruits another protein that excises the +match *and a big chunk of the downstream strand*, and that whole chunk gets +resynthesized. +