DNA polymerase θ is a polymerase-helicase essential for microhomology-mediated end-joining (MMEJ) or alternative end-joining of DNA. Here the authors use biochemical and biophysical methods to reveal how full-length human DNA polymerase θ performs MMEJ at the molecular level.
- Samuel J. Black
- Ahmet Y. Ozdemir
- Richard T. Pomerantz