DNA polymerase theta
BE0010760ProteinHumansPOLQ
Low-fidelity DNA polymerase with a putative helicase activity that promotes microhomology-mediated end-joining (MMEJ), an alternative non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) machinery required to repair double-strand breaks in DNA during mitosis (PubMed:14576298, PubMed:18503084, PubMed:24648516, PubMed:25642963, PubMed:25643323, PubMed:25775267, PubMed:26636256,... It is acted on by 1 drug in DrugBank.
- Gene name
- POLQ
- UniProtKB entry
- O75417Swiss-Prot
- Cellular location
- Nucleus
- Residues / weight
- 2,590 residues · 289,617 Da
- Also known as
- DNA polymerase eta · POLH
Resolves to
Pharmacology
Drugs
What you can answer from here — as of October 31, 2023
Which approved drugs act on DNA polymerase theta, how selective are they, and which programs against it are still in active trials?
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