Eukaryotic DNA Polymerases: Proposal for a Revised Nomenclature

Peter M. J. Burgers, Eugene V. Koonin, Elspeth Bruford, Luis Blanco, Kenneth C. Burtis, Michael F. Christman, William C. Copeland, Errol C. Friedberg, Fumio Hanaoka, David C. Hinkle, Christopher W. Lawrence, Makoto Nakanishi, Haruo Ohmori, Louise Prakash, Satya Prakash, Claude-Agnes Reynaud, Akio Sugino, Takeshi Todo, Zhigang Wang, Jean-Claude Weill, and Roger Woodgate From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, HUGO Nomenclature Committee, The Galton Laboratory, University College of London, London NW1 2HE, United Kingdom, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autonoma, 28049 Madrid, Spain, Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75235-9072, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan, Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627-0211, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642, Department of Biochemistry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan, Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-1061, Faculte de Medicine Necker-Enfants Malades, 75730 Paris Cedex 15, France, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan, Radiation Biology Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan, Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, Section on DNA Replication, Repair, and Mutagenesis, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2725