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

What you can answer from here — as of October 31, 2023

1DrugApproved to experimental, with action, bond type and pharmacological action
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1Clinical trialTrials of drugs acting on it, by phase and status
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13GO termsFunction, process and component, as structured annotations
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6Pfam domainsDomain architecture mapped to Pfam families and clans
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1+ReferenceStructured and connected to the statements they support
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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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