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Mahdouani M, Zhuri D, Sezginer Guler H, Hmida D, Sana M, Azaza M, Ben Said M, Masmoudi S, Hmila F, Youssef S, Ben Sghaier R, Brieger A, Zeuzem S, Saad A, Gurkan H, Yalcintepe S, Gribaa M, Plotz G. Functional analysis of MMR gene VUS from potential Lynch syndrome patients. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0304141. [PMID: 38843250 PMCID: PMC11156341 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/06/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024] Open
Abstract
Lynch syndrome is caused by inactivating variants in DNA mismatch repair genes, namely MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2. We have investigated five MLH1 and one MSH2 variants that we have identified in Turkish and Tunisian colorectal cancer patients. These variants comprised two small deletions causing frameshifts resulting in premature stops which could be classified pathogenic (MLH1 p.(His727Profs*57) and MSH2 p.(Thr788Asnfs*11)), but also two missense variants (MLH1 p.(Asn338Ser) and p.(Gly181Ser)) and two small, in-frame deletion variants (p.(Val647-Leu650del) and p.(Lys678_Cys680del)). For such small coding genetic variants, it is unclear if they are inactivating or not. We here provide clinical description of the variant carriers and their families, and we performed biochemical laboratory testing on the variant proteins to test if their stability or their MMR activity are compromised. Subsequently, we compared the results to in-silico predictions on structure and conservation. We demonstrate that neither missense alteration affected function, while both deletion variants caused a dramatic instability of the MLH1 protein, resulting in MMR deficiency. These results were consistent with the structural analyses that were performed. The study shows that knowledge of protein function may provide molecular explanations of results obtained with functional biochemical testing and can thereby, in conjunction with clinical information, elevate the evidential value and facilitate clinical management in affected families.
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- Marwa Mahdouani
- Laboratory of Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Human Reproduction Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Trakya University School of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Trakya University School of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey
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- Laboratory of Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Human Reproduction Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
- Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Department of General Surgery, Sahloul University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Screening Processes, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Screening Processes, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
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- Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
- Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Department of General Surgery, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Human Reproduction Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Biomedical Research Laboratory, Medical Clinic 1, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Biomedical Research Laboratory, Medical Clinic 1, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Laboratory of Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Human Reproduction Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Trakya University School of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Trakya University School of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey
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- Laboratory of Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Human Reproduction Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Biomedical Research Laboratory, Medical Clinic 1, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Fukui K, Yamamoto T, Murakawa T, Baba S, Kumasaka T, Yano T. Catalytic mechanism of the zinc-dependent MutL endonuclease reaction. Life Sci Alliance 2023; 6:e202302001. [PMID: 37487639 PMCID: PMC10366529 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202302001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2023] [Revised: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/26/2023] Open
Abstract
DNA mismatch repair endonuclease MutL binds two zinc ions. However, the endonuclease activity of MutL is drastically enhanced by other divalent metals such as manganese, implying that MutL binds another catalytic metal at some site other than the zinc-binding sites. Here, we solved the crystal structure of the endonuclease domain of Aquifex aeolicus MutL in the manganese- or cadmium-bound form, revealing that these metals compete with zinc at the same sites. Mass spectrometry revealed that the MutL yielded 5'-phosphate and 3'-OH products, which is characteristic of the two-metal-ion mechanism. Crystallographic analyses also showed that the position and flexibility of a highly conserved Arg of A. aeolicus MutL altered depending on the presence of zinc/manganese or the specific inhibitor cadmium. Site-directed mutagenesis revealed that the Arg was critical for the catalysis. We propose that zinc ion and its binding sites are physiologically of catalytic importance and that the two-metal-ion mechanism works in the reaction, where the Arg plays a catalytic role. Our results also provide a mechanistic insight into the inhibitory effect of a mutagen/carcinogen, cadmium, on MutL.
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- Kenji Fukui
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Japan
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- Structural Biology Division, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Hyogo, Japan
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- Structural Biology Division, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Hyogo, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Japan
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Putnam CD, Kolodner RD. Insights into DNA cleavage by MutL homologs from analysis of conserved motifs in eukaryotic Mlh1. Bioessays 2023; 45:e2300031. [PMID: 37424007 PMCID: PMC10530380 DOI: 10.1002/bies.202300031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2023] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
Abstract
MutL family proteins contain an N-terminal ATPase domain (NTD), an unstructured interdomain linker, and a C-terminal domain (CTD), which mediates constitutive dimerization between subunits and often contains an endonuclease active site. Most MutL homologs direct strand-specific DNA mismatch repair by cleaving the error-containing daughter DNA strand. The strand cleavage reaction is poorly understood; however, the structure of the endonuclease active site is consistent with a two- or three-metal ion cleavage mechanism. A motif required for this endonuclease activity is present in the unstructured linker of Mlh1 and is conserved in all eukaryotic Mlh1 proteins, except those from metamonads, which also lack the almost absolutely conserved Mlh1 C-terminal phenylalanine-glutamate-arginine-cysteine (FERC) sequence. We hypothesize that the cysteine in the FERC sequence is autoinhibitory, as it sequesters the active site. We further hypothesize that the evolutionary co-occurrence of the conserved linker motif with the FERC sequence indicates a functional interaction, possibly by linker motif-mediated displacement of the inhibitory cysteine. This role is consistent with available data for interactions between the linker motif with DNA and the CTDs in the vicinity of the active site.
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- Christopher D. Putnam
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research San Diego Branch, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0660
- Departments of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0660
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0660
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research San Diego Branch, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0660
- Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0660
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0660
- Institute of Genomic Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0660
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Wolf K, Kosinski J, Gibson TJ, Wesch N, Dötsch V, Genuardi M, Cordisco EL, Zeuzem S, Brieger A, Plotz G. A conserved motif in the disordered linker of human MLH1 is vital for DNA mismatch repair and its function is diminished by a cancer family mutation. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:6307-6320. [PMID: 37224528 PMCID: PMC10325900 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023] Open
Abstract
DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is essential for correction of DNA replication errors. Germline mutations of the human MMR gene MLH1 are the major cause of Lynch syndrome, a heritable cancer predisposition. In the MLH1 protein, a non-conserved, intrinsically disordered region connects two conserved, catalytically active structured domains of MLH1. This region has as yet been regarded as a flexible spacer, and missense alterations in this region have been considered non-pathogenic. However, we have identified and investigated a small motif (ConMot) in this linker which is conserved in eukaryotes. Deletion of the ConMot or scrambling of the motif abolished mismatch repair activity. A mutation from a cancer family within the motif (p.Arg385Pro) also inactivated MMR, suggesting that ConMot alterations can be causative for Lynch syndrome. Intriguingly, the mismatch repair defect of the ConMot variants could be restored by addition of a ConMot peptide containing the deleted sequence. This is the first instance of a DNA mismatch repair defect conferred by a mutation that can be overcome by addition of a small molecule. Based on the experimental data and AlphaFold2 predictions, we suggest that the ConMot may bind close to the C-terminal MLH1-PMS2 endonuclease and modulate its activation during the MMR process.
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- Karla Wolf
- Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 60590, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), Hamburg, 22607, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Heidelberg, 69117, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 60438, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 60438, Germany
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- UOC Genetica Medica, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome00168, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e di Sanità Pubblica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome00168, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 60590, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 60590, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 60590, Germany
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Mahdouani M, Ben Ahmed S, Hmila F, Rais H, Ben Sghaier R, Saad H, Ben Said M, Masmoudi S, Hmida D, Brieger A, Zeuzem S, Saad A, Gribaa M, Plotz G. Functional characterization of MLH1 missense variants unveils mechanisms of pathogenicity and clarifies role in cancer. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0278283. [PMID: 36454741 PMCID: PMC9714755 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
Abstract
Lynch syndrome is a heritable condition caused by a heterozygous germline inactivating mutation of the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes, most commonly the MLH1 gene. However, one third of the identified alterations are missense variants, for which the clinical significance is unclear in many cases. We have identified three MLH1 missense alterations (p.(Glu736Lys), p.(Pro640Thr) and p.(Leu73Pro)) in six individuals from large Tunisian families. For none of these alterations, a classification of pathogenicity was available, consequently diagnosis, predictive testing and targeted surveillance in affected families was impossible. We therefore performed functional laboratory testing using a system testing stability as well as catalytic activity that includes clinically validated reference variants. Both p.(Leu73Pro) and p.(Pro640Thr) were found to be non-functional due to severe defects in protein stability and catalytic activity. In contrast, p.(Glu736Lys) was comparable to the wildtype protein and therefore considered a neutral substitution. Analysis of residue conservation and of the structural roles of the substituted residues corroborated these findings. In conjunction with the available clinical data, two variants fulfil classification criteria for class 4 "likely pathogenic". The findings of this work clarify the mechanism of pathogenicity of two unclear MLH1 variants and enables predictive testing and targeted surveillance in members of carrier families worldwide.
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- Marwa Mahdouani
- Laboratory of Human Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Reproductive Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Department of Oncology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
- Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Medical Service, Salah Azaiez Institute, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Human Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Reproductive Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Human Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Reproductive Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Screening Processes, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Screening Processes, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Human Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Reproductive Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Biomedical Research Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Biomedical Research Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Laboratory of Human Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Reproductive Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Human Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics and Reproductive Biology, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
- Faculty of Medicine Ibn El Jazzar of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
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- Biomedical Research Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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D'Arcy BM, Arrington J, Weisman J, McClellan SB, Vandana , Yang Z, Deivanayagam C, Blount J, Prakash A. PMS2 variant results in loss of ATPase activity without compromising mismatch repair. Mol Genet Genomic Med 2022; 10:e1908. [PMID: 35189042 PMCID: PMC9034662 DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.1908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Hereditary cancer syndromes account for approximately 5%-10% of all diagnosed cancer cases. Lynch syndrome (LS) is an autosomal dominant hereditary cancer condition that predisposes individuals to an elevated lifetime risk for developing colorectal, endometrial, and other cancers. LS results from a pathogenic mutation in one of four mismatch repair (MMR) genes (MSH2, MSH6, MLH1, and PMS2). The diagnosis of LS is often challenged by the identification of missense mutations, termed variants of uncertain significance, whose functional effect on the protein is not known. Of the eight PMS2 variants initially selected for this study, we identified a variant within the N-terminal domain where asparagine 335 is mutated to serine, p.Asn335Ser, which lacked ATPase activity, yet appears to be proficient in MMR. To expand our understanding of this functional dichotomy, we performed biophysical and structural studies, and noted that p.Asn335Ser binds to ATP but is unable to hydrolyze it to ADP. To examine the impact of p.Asn335Ser on MMR, we developed a novel in-cell fluorescent-based microsatellite instability reporter that revealed p.Asn335Ser maintained genomic stability. We conclude that in the absence of gross structural changes, PMS2 ATP hydrolysis is not necessary for proficient MMR and that the ATPase deficient p.Asn335Ser variant is likely benign.
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- Brandon M. D'Arcy
- Mitchell Cancer InstituteUniversity of South Alabama HealthMobileAlabamaUSA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of South AlabamaMobileAlabamaUSA
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- Mitchell Cancer InstituteUniversity of South Alabama HealthMobileAlabamaUSA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of South AlabamaMobileAlabamaUSA
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- Mitchell Cancer InstituteUniversity of South Alabama HealthMobileAlabamaUSA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of South AlabamaMobileAlabamaUSA
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- Mitchell Cancer InstituteUniversity of South Alabama HealthMobileAlabamaUSA
- Flow Cytometry Shared Resource LabMitchell Cancer InstituteMobileAlabamaUSA
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- Mitchell Cancer InstituteUniversity of South Alabama HealthMobileAlabamaUSA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of South AlabamaMobileAlabamaUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular GeneticsSchool of Medicine University of Alabama at BirminghamBirminghamAlabamaUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular GeneticsSchool of Medicine University of Alabama at BirminghamBirminghamAlabamaUSA
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- Mitchell Cancer InstituteUniversity of South Alabama HealthMobileAlabamaUSA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of South AlabamaMobileAlabamaUSA
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Monakhova MV, Milakina MA, Savitskaia VY, Romanova EA, Rao DN, Kubareva EA. MutL Protein from the Neisseria gonorrhoeae Mismatch Repair System: Interaction with ATP and DNA. Mol Biol 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893321020114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Monakhova MV, Milakina MA, Trikin RM, Oretskaya TS, Kubareva EA. Functional Specifics of the MutL Protein of the DNA Mismatch Repair System in Different Organisms. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s1068162020060217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Hayward BE, Steinbach PJ, Usdin K. A point mutation in the nuclease domain of MLH3 eliminates repeat expansions in a mouse stem cell model of the Fragile X-related disorders. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:7856-7863. [PMID: 32619224 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2020] [Revised: 06/23/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
The Fragile X-related disorders (FXDs) are Repeat Expansion Diseases, genetic disorders that result from the expansion of a disease-specific microsatellite. In those Repeat Expansion Disease models where it has been examined, expansion is dependent on functional mismatch repair (MMR) factors, including MutLγ, a heterodimer of MLH1/MLH3, one of the three MutL complexes found in mammals and a minor player in MMR. In contrast, MutLα, a much more abundant MutL complex that is the major contributor to MMR, is either not required for expansion or plays a limited role in expansion in many model systems. How MutLγ acts to generate expansions is unclear given its normal role in protecting against microsatellite instability and while MLH3 does have an associated endonuclease activity, whether that contributes to repeat expansion is uncertain. We show here, using a gene-editing approach, that a point mutation that eliminates the endonuclease activity of MLH3 eliminates expansions in an FXD mouse embryonic stem cell model. This restricts the number of possible models for repeat expansion and supports the idea that MutLγ may be a useful druggable target to reduce somatic expansion in those disorders where it contributes to disease pathology.
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- Bruce E Hayward
- Section on Gene Structure and Disease Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Center for Molecular Modeling, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Section on Gene Structure and Disease Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Izuhara K, Fukui K, Murakawa T, Baba S, Kumasaka T, Uchiyama K, Yano T. A Lynch syndrome-associated mutation at a Bergerat ATP-binding fold destabilizes the structure of the DNA mismatch repair endonuclease MutL. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:11643-11655. [PMID: 32571878 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.013576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Revised: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
In humans, mutations in genes encoding homologs of the DNA mismatch repair endonuclease MutL cause a hereditary cancer that is known as Lynch syndrome. Here, we determined the crystal structures of the N-terminal domain (NTD) of MutL from the thermophilic eubacterium Aquifex aeolicus (aqMutL) complexed with ATP analogs at 1.69-1.73 Å. The structures revealed significant structural similarities to those of a human MutL homolog, postmeiotic segregation increased 2 (PMS2). We introduced five Lynch syndrome-associated mutations clinically found in human PMS2 into the aqMutL NTD and investigated the protein stability, ATPase activity, and DNA-binding ability of these protein variants. Among the mutations studied, the most unexpected results were obtained for the residue Ser34. Ser34 (Ser46 in PMS2) is located at a previously identified Bergerat ATP-binding fold. We found that the S34I aqMutL NTD retains ATPase and DNA-binding activities. Interestingly, CD spectrometry and trypsin-limited proteolysis indicated the disruption of a secondary structure element of the S34I NTD, destabilizing the overall structure of the aqMutL NTD. In agreement with this, the recombinant human PMS2 S46I NTD was easily digested in the host Escherichia coli cells. Moreover, other mutations resulted in reduced DNA-binding or ATPase activity. In summary, using the thermostable aqMutL protein as a model molecule, we have experimentally determined the effects of the mutations on MutL endonuclease; we discuss the pathological effects of the corresponding mutations in human PMS2.
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- Keisuke Izuhara
- Department of Biochemistry, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan.,Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan
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- Protein Crystal Analysis Division, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan
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- Protein Crystal Analysis Division, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan
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- Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan
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Human MutLγ, the MLH1-MLH3 heterodimer, is an endonuclease that promotes DNA expansion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:3535-3542. [PMID: 32015124 PMCID: PMC7035508 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1914718117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
MutL proteins are ubiquitous and play important roles in DNA metabolism. MutLγ (MLH1-MLH3 heterodimer) is a poorly understood member of the eukaryotic family of MutL proteins that has been implicated in triplet repeat expansion, but its action in this deleterious process has remained unknown. In humans, triplet repeat expansion is the molecular basis for ∼40 neurological disorders. In addition to MutLγ, triplet repeat expansion involves the mismatch recognition factor MutSβ (MSH2-MSH3 heterodimer). We show here that human MutLγ is an endonuclease that nicks DNA. Strikingly, incision of covalently closed, relaxed loop-containing DNA by human MutLγ is promoted by MutSβ and targeted to the strand opposite the loop. The resulting strand break licenses downstream events that lead to a DNA expansion event in human cell extracts. Our data imply that the mammalian MutLγ is a unique endonuclease that can initiate triplet repeat DNA expansions.
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Almawi AW, Scotland MK, Randall JR, Liu L, Martin HK, Sacre L, Shen Y, Pillon MC, Simmons LA, Sutton MD, Guarné A. Binding of the regulatory domain of MutL to the sliding β-clamp is species specific. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:4831-4842. [PMID: 30916336 PMCID: PMC6511837 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2018] [Revised: 01/21/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The β-clamp is a protein hub central to DNA replication and fork management. Proteins interacting with the β-clamp harbor a conserved clamp-binding motif that is often found in extended regions. Therefore, clamp interactions have -almost exclusively- been studied using short peptides recapitulating the binding motif. This approach has revealed the molecular determinants that mediate the binding but cannot describe how proteins with clamp-binding motifs embedded in structured domains are recognized. The mismatch repair protein MutL has an internal clamp-binding motif, but its interaction with the β-clamp has different roles depending on the organism. In Bacillus subtilis, the interaction stimulates the endonuclease activity of MutL and it is critical for DNA mismatch repair. Conversely, disrupting the interaction between Escherichia coli MutL and the β-clamp only causes a mild mutator phenotype. Here, we determined the structures of the regulatory domains of E. coli and B. subtilis MutL bound to their respective β-clamps. The structures reveal different binding modes consistent with the binding to the β-clamp being a two-step process. Functional characterization indicates that, within the regulatory domain, only the clamp binding motif is required for the interaction between the two proteins. However, additional motifs beyond the regulatory domain may stabilize the interaction. We propose a model for the activation of the endonuclease activity of MutL in organisms lacking methyl-directed mismatch repair.
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- Ahmad W Almawi
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.,Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.,Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.,Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics Program, The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.,Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Liu L, Ortiz Castro MC, Rodríguez González J, Pillon MC, Guarné A. The endonuclease domain of Bacillus subtilis MutL is functionally asymmetric. DNA Repair (Amst) 2018; 73:1-6. [PMID: 30391220 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2018.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2018] [Revised: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 10/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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DNA mismatch repair is an evolutionarily conserved repair pathway that corrects replication errors. In most prokaryotes and all eukaryotes, the mismatch repair protein MutL is a sequence-unspecific endonuclease that nicks the newly synthesized strand and marks it for repair. Although the sequence of the endonuclease domain of MutL is not conserved, eukaryotic MutLα and prokaryotic MutL share four conserved motifs that define the endonuclease site of the protein. Their endonuclease activity is stimulated by the processivity sliding β-clamp, or its eukaryotic counterpart PCNA, highlighting the functional conservation. Bacterial MutL homologs form homodimers and, therefore, they have two endonuclease sites. However, eukaryotic MutL homologs associate to form heterodimers, where only one of the protomers of the dimer has endonuclease activity. To probe whether bacterial MutL needs its two endonuclease sites, we engineered variants of B. subtilis MutL harboring a single nuclease site and showed that these variants are functional nucleases. We also find that the protomer harboring the nuclease site must be able to bind to the β-clamp to recapitulate the nicking activity of wild-type MutL. These results demonstrate the functional asymmetry of bacterial MutL and strengthen the similarities with the endonuclease activity of eukaryotic MutL homologs.
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- Linda Liu
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Weßbecher IM, Hinrichsen I, Funke S, Oellerich T, Plotz G, Zeuzem S, Grus FH, Biondi RM, Brieger A. DNA mismatch repair activity of MutLα is regulated by CK2-dependent phosphorylation of MLH1 (S477). Mol Carcinog 2018; 57:1723-1734. [DOI: 10.1002/mc.22892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 06/22/2018] [Accepted: 08/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Isabel M. Weßbecher
- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; Goethe-University; Frankfurt Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; Goethe-University; Frankfurt Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology; Experimental Ophthalmology; University Medical Center; Gutenberg University; Mainz Germany
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- Department of Medicine II, Hematology/Oncology; Goethe-University; Frankfurt Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; Goethe-University; Frankfurt Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; Goethe-University; Frankfurt Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology; Experimental Ophthalmology; University Medical Center; Gutenberg University; Mainz Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; Goethe-University; Frankfurt Germany
- Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires (IBioBA)-CONICET-Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society; Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; Goethe-University; Frankfurt Germany
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Blount J, Prakash A. The changing landscape of Lynch syndrome due to PMS2 mutations. Clin Genet 2018; 94:61-69. [PMID: 29286535 PMCID: PMC5995637 DOI: 10.1111/cge.13205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Revised: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 12/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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DNA repair pathways are essential for cellular survival as our DNA is constantly under assault from both exogenous and endogenous DNA damaging agents. Five major mammalian DNA repair pathways exist within a cell to maintain genomic integrity. Of these, the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) pathway is highly conserved among species and is well documented in bacteria. In humans, the importance of MMR is underscored by the discovery that a single mutation in any 1 of 4 genes within the MMR pathway (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2) results in Lynch syndrome (LS). LS is a autosomal dominant condition that predisposes individuals to a higher incidence of many malignancies including colorectal, endometrial, ovarian, and gastric cancers. In this review, we discuss the role of PMS2 in the MMR pathway, the evolving testing criteria used to identify variants in the PMS2 gene, the LS phenotype as well as the autosomal recessive condition called constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome, and current methods used to elucidate the clinical impact of PMS2 mutations.
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- Jessa Blount
- Mitchell Cancer Institute, The University of South Alabama, 1660 Springhill Avenue, Mobile, AL - 36604
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- Mitchell Cancer Institute, The University of South Alabama, 1660 Springhill Avenue, Mobile, AL - 36604
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The mutagen and carcinogen cadmium is a high-affinity inhibitor of the zinc-dependent MutLα endonuclease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:7314-7319. [PMID: 29941579 PMCID: PMC6048502 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1807319115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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MutLα (MLH1-PMS2 heterodimer) is an endonuclease that acts during an early step of eukaryotic mismatch repair. We show that human MutLα endonuclease copurifies with two equivalents of bound zinc, at least one of which resides within the endonuclease active site. We also show that cadmium, a known inhibitor of zinc-dependent enzymes and a potent mutagen and carcinogen, is a high-affinity inhibitor of MutLα endonuclease and that exogenous MutLα significantly reverses the mismatch repair defect in cadmium-treated human cell nuclear extract or nuclear extract prepared from cadmium-treated cells. Because the mutagenic action of cadmium is largely due to the selective inhibition of mismatch repair, these findings suggest that MutLα is a primary cadmium target for mutagenesis and presumably, carcinogenesis as well. MutLα (MLH1-PMS2 heterodimer), which acts as a strand-directed endonuclease during the initiation of eukaryotic mismatch repair, has been postulated to function as a zinc-dependent enzyme [Kosinski J, Plotz G, Guarné A, Bujnicki JM, Friedhoff P (2008) J Mol Biol 382:610–627]. We show that human MutLα copurifies with two bound zinc ions, at least one of which resides within the endonuclease active site, and that bound zinc is required for endonuclease function. Mutagenic action of the carcinogen cadmium, a known inhibitor of zinc-dependent enzymes, is largely due to selective inhibition of mismatch repair [Jin YH, et al. (2003) Nat Genet 34:326–329]. We show that cadmium is a potent inhibitor (apparent Ki ∼ 200 nM) of MutLα endonuclease and that cadmium inhibition is reversed by zinc. We also show that inhibition of mismatch repair in cadmium-treated nuclear extract is significantly reversed by exogenous MutLα but not by MutSα (MSH2-MSH6 heterodimer) and that MutLα reversal depends on integrity of the endonuclease active site. Exogenous MutLα also partially rescues the mismatch repair defect in nuclear extract prepared from cells exposed to cadmium. These findings indicate that targeted inhibition of MutLα endonuclease contributes to cadmium inhibition of mismatch repair. This effect may play a role in the mechanism of cadmium carcinogenesis.
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Köger N, Paulsen L, López-Kostner F, Della Valle A, Vaccaro CA, Palmero EI, Alvarez K, Sarroca C, Neffa F, Kalfayan PG, Gonzalez ML, Rossi BM, Reis RM, Brieger A, Zeuzem S, Hinrichsen I, Dominguez-Valentin M, Plotz G. Evaluation of MLH1 variants of unclear significance. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2018. [PMID: 29520894 DOI: 10.1002/gcc.22536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Inactivating mutations in the MLH1 gene cause the cancer predisposition Lynch syndrome, but for small coding genetic variants it is mostly unclear if they are inactivating or not. Nine such MLH1 variants have been identified in South American colorectal cancer (CRC) patients (p.Tyr97Asp, p.His112Gln, p.Pro141Ala, p.Arg265Pro, p.Asn338Ser, p.Ile501del, p.Arg575Lys, p.Lys618del, p.Leu676Pro), and evidence of pathogenicity or neutrality was not available for the majority of these variants. We therefore performed biochemical laboratory testing of the variant proteins and compared the results to protein in silico predictions on structure and conservation. Additionally, we collected all available clinical information of the families to come to a conclusion concerning their pathogenic potential and facilitate clinical diagnosis in the affected families. We provide evidence that four of the alterations are causative for Lynch syndrome, four are likely neutral and one shows compromised activity which can currently not be classified with respect to its pathogenic potential. The work demonstrates that biochemical testing, corroborated by congruent evolutionary and structural information, can serve to reliably classify uncertain variants when other data are insufficient.
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- Nicole Köger
- Biomedizinisches Forschungslabor, Medizinische Klinik 1, Universitätsklinik Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Biomedizinisches Forschungslabor, Medizinische Klinik 1, Universitätsklinik Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Hospital Fuerzas Armadas, Grupo Colaborativo Uruguayo, Investigación de Afecciones Oncológicas Hereditarias (GCU), Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Barretos Cancer Hospital, Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil.,Barretos School of Health Sciences-FACISB, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Oncología y Genética Molecular, Clínica Los Condes, Santiago, Chile
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- Hospital Fuerzas Armadas, Grupo Colaborativo Uruguayo, Investigación de Afecciones Oncológicas Hereditarias (GCU), Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Hospital Fuerzas Armadas, Grupo Colaborativo Uruguayo, Investigación de Afecciones Oncológicas Hereditarias (GCU), Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Hereditary Cancer Program (PROCANHE), Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Biomedizinisches Forschungslabor, Medizinische Klinik 1, Universitätsklinik Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.,Life and Health Sciences Q5 753 Research Institute (ICVS), Health Sciences School, University of Minho, Braga, 754, Portugal.,ICVS/3B's-PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga, Guimarães, 755, Portugal
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- Biomedizinisches Forschungslabor, Medizinische Klinik 1, Universitätsklinik Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Biomedizinisches Forschungslabor, Medizinische Klinik 1, Universitätsklinik Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Biomedizinisches Forschungslabor, Medizinische Klinik 1, Universitätsklinik Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Biomedizinisches Forschungslabor, Medizinische Klinik 1, Universitätsklinik Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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Monakhova MV, Penkina AI, Pavlova AV, Lyaschuk AM, Kucherenko VV, Alexeevski AV, Lunin VG, Friedhoff P, Klug G, Oretskaya TS, Kubareva EA. Endonuclease Activity of MutL Protein of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides Mismatch Repair System. BIOCHEMISTRY. BIOKHIMIIA 2018; 83:281-293. [PMID: 29625547 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297918030082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have purified the MutL protein from Rhodobacter sphaeroides mismatch repair system (rsMutL) for the first time. rsMutL demonstrated endonuclease activity in vitro, as predicted by bioinformatics analysis. Based on the alignment of 1483 sequences of bacterial MutL homologs with presumed endonuclease activity, conserved functional motifs and amino acid residues in the rsMutL sequence were identified: five motifs comprising the catalytic site responsible for DNA cleavage were found in the C-terminal domain; seven conserved motifs involved in ATP binding and hydrolysis and specific to the GHKL family of ATPases were found in the N-terminal domain. rsMutL demonstrated the highest activity in the presence of Mn2+. The extent of plasmid DNA hydrolysis declined in the row Mn2+ > Co2+ > Mg2+ > Cd2+; Ni2+ and Ca2+ did not activate rsMutL. Divalent zinc ions inhibited rsMutL endonuclease activity in the presence of Mn2+ excess. ATP also suppressed plasmid DNA hydrolysis by rsMutL. Analysis of amino acid sequences and biochemical properties of five studied bacterial MutL homologs with endonuclease activity revealed that rsMutL resembles the MutL proteins from Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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- M V Monakhova
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
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Hinrichsen I, Weßbecher IM, Huhn M, Passmann S, Zeuzem S, Plotz G, Biondi RM, Brieger A. Phosphorylation-dependent signaling controls degradation of DNA mismatch repair protein PMS2. Mol Carcinog 2017; 56:2663-2668. [DOI: 10.1002/mc.22709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2017] [Accepted: 07/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Inga Hinrichsen
- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; University Clinic Frankfurt; Frankfurt a.M. Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; University Clinic Frankfurt; Frankfurt a.M. Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; University Clinic Frankfurt; Frankfurt a.M. Germany
- Pharmazentrum Frankfurt; Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology; University Clinic Frankfurt; Frankfurt a.M. Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; University Clinic Frankfurt; Frankfurt a.M. Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; University Clinic Frankfurt; Frankfurt a.M. Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; University Clinic Frankfurt; Frankfurt a.M. Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; University Clinic Frankfurt; Frankfurt a.M. Germany
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- Medical Clinic I; Biomedical Research Laboratory; University Clinic Frankfurt; Frankfurt a.M. Germany
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Al-Sweel N, Raghavan V, Dutta A, Ajith VP, Di Vietro L, Khondakar N, Manhart CM, Surtees JA, Nishant KT, Alani E. mlh3 mutations in baker's yeast alter meiotic recombination outcomes by increasing noncrossover events genome-wide. PLoS Genet 2017; 13:e1006974. [PMID: 28827832 PMCID: PMC5578695 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Revised: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Mlh1-Mlh3 is an endonuclease hypothesized to act in meiosis to resolve double Holliday junctions into crossovers. It also plays a minor role in eukaryotic DNA mismatch repair (MMR). To understand how Mlh1-Mlh3 functions in both meiosis and MMR, we analyzed in baker’s yeast 60 new mlh3 alleles. Five alleles specifically disrupted MMR, whereas one (mlh3-32) specifically disrupted meiotic crossing over. Mlh1-mlh3 representatives for each class were purified and characterized. Both Mlh1-mlh3-32 (MMR+, crossover-) and Mlh1-mlh3-45 (MMR-, crossover+) displayed wild-type endonuclease activities in vitro. Msh2-Msh3, an MSH complex that acts with Mlh1-Mlh3 in MMR, stimulated the endonuclease activity of Mlh1-mlh3-32 but not Mlh1-mlh3-45, suggesting that Mlh1-mlh3-45 is defective in MSH interactions. Whole genome recombination maps were constructed for wild-type and MMR+ crossover-, MMR- crossover+, endonuclease defective and null mlh3 mutants in an S288c/YJM789 hybrid background. Compared to wild-type, all of the mlh3 mutants showed increases in the number of noncrossover events, consistent with recombination intermediates being resolved through alternative recombination pathways. Our observations provide a structure-function map for Mlh3 that reveals the importance of protein-protein interactions in regulating Mlh1-Mlh3’s enzymatic activity. They also illustrate how defective meiotic components can alter the fate of meiotic recombination intermediates, providing new insights for how meiotic recombination pathways are regulated. During meiosis, diploid germ cells that become eggs or sperm undergo a single round of DNA replication followed by two consecutive chromosomal divisions. The segregation of chromosomes at the first meiotic division is dependent in most organisms on at least one genetic exchange, or crossover event, between chromosome homologs. Homologs that do not receive a crossover frequently undergo nondisjunction at the first meiotic division, yielding gametes that lack chromosomes or contain additional copies. Such events have been linked to human disease and infertility. Recent studies suggest that the Mlh1-Mlh3 complex is an endonuclease that resolves recombination intermediates into crossovers. Interestingly, this complex also acts as a matchmaker in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) to remove DNA replication errors. How does one complex act in two different processes? We investigated this question by performing a mutational analysis of the baker’s yeast Mlh3 protein. Five mutations were identified that disrupted MMR but not crossing over, and one mutation disrupted crossing over while maintaining MMR. Using a combination of biochemical and genetic analyses to further characterize these mutants we illustrate the importance of protein-protein interactions for Mlh1-Mlh3’s activity. Importantly, our data illustrate how defective meiotic components can alter the outcome of meiotic recombination events. They also provide new insights for the basis of infertility syndromes.
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- Najla Al-Sweel
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, India
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, India
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- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Verdi, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
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- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, India
- Center for Computation Modelling and Simulation, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, India
- * E-mail: (EA); (KTN)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- * E-mail: (EA); (KTN)
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Fukui K, Baba S, Kumasaka T, Yano T. Structural Features and Functional Dependency on β-Clamp Define Distinct Subfamilies of Bacterial Mismatch Repair Endonuclease MutL. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:16990-7000. [PMID: 27369079 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.739664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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In early reactions of DNA mismatch repair, MutS recognizes mismatched bases and activates MutL endonuclease to incise the error-containing strand of the duplex. DNA sliding clamp is responsible for directing the MutL-dependent nicking to the newly synthesized/error-containing strand. In Bacillus subtilis MutL, the β-clamp-interacting motif (β motif) of the C-terminal domain (CTD) is essential for both in vitro direct interaction with β-clamp and in vivo repair activity. A large cluster of negatively charged residues on the B. subtilis MutL CTD prevents nonspecific DNA binding until β clamp interaction neutralizes the negative charge. We found that there are some bacterial phyla whose MutL endonucleases lack the β motif. For example, the region corresponding to the β motif is completely missing in Aquifex aeolicus MutL, and critical amino acid residues in the β motif are not conserved in Thermus thermophilus MutL. We then revealed the 1.35 Å-resolution crystal structure of A. aeolicus MutL CTD, which lacks the β motif but retains the metal-binding site for the endonuclease activity. Importantly, there was no negatively charged cluster on its surface. It was confirmed that CTDs of β motif-lacking MutLs, A. aeolicus MutL and T. thermophilus MutL, efficiently incise DNA even in the absence of β-clamp and that β-clamp shows no detectable enhancing effect on their activity. In contrast, CTD of Streptococcus mutans, a β motif-containing MutL, required β-clamp for the digestion of DNA. We propose that MutL endonucleases are divided into three subfamilies on the basis of their structural features and dependence on β-clamp.
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- Kenji Fukui
- From the Department of Biochemistry, Osaka Medical College, 2-7, Daigakumachi, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-8686 and
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), SPring-8, Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), SPring-8, Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- From the Department of Biochemistry, Osaka Medical College, 2-7, Daigakumachi, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-8686 and
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Kadyrova LY, Kadyrov FA. Endonuclease activities of MutLα and its homologs in DNA mismatch repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2016; 38:42-49. [PMID: 26719141 PMCID: PMC4820397 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2015.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2015] [Revised: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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MutLα is a key component of the DNA mismatch repair system in eukaryotes. The DNA mismatch repair system has several genetic stabilization functions. Of these functions, DNA mismatch repair is the major one. The loss of MutLα abolishes DNA mismatch repair, thereby predisposing humans to cancer. MutLα has an endonuclease activity that is required for DNA mismatch repair. The endonuclease activity of MutLα depends on the DQHA(X)2E(X)4E motif which is a part of the active site of the nuclease. This motif is also present in many bacterial MutL and eukaryotic MutLγ proteins, DNA mismatch repair system factors that are homologous to MutLα. Recent studies have shown that yeast MutLγ and several MutL proteins containing the DQHA(X)2E(X)4E motif possess endonuclease activities. Here, we review the endonuclease activities of MutLα and its homologs in the context of DNA mismatch repair.
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- Lyudmila Y Kadyrova
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA.
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Pillon MC, Babu VMP, Randall JR, Cai J, Simmons LA, Sutton MD, Guarné A. The sliding clamp tethers the endonuclease domain of MutL to DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:10746-59. [PMID: 26384423 PMCID: PMC4678855 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2014] [Revised: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 09/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The sliding clamp enhances polymerase processivity and coordinates DNA replication with other critical DNA processing events including translesion synthesis, Okazaki fragment maturation and DNA repair. The relative binding affinity of the sliding clamp for its partners determines how these processes are orchestrated and is essential to ensure the correct processing of newly replicated DNA. However, while stable clamp interactions have been extensively studied; dynamic interactions mediated by the sliding clamp remain poorly understood. Here, we characterize the interaction between the bacterial sliding clamp (β-clamp) and one of its weak-binding partners, the DNA mismatch repair protein MutL. Disruption of this interaction causes a mild mutator phenotype in Escherichia coli, but completely abrogates mismatch repair activity in Bacillus subtilis. We stabilize the MutL-β interaction by engineering two cysteine residues at variable positions of the interface. Using disulfide bridge crosslinking, we have stabilized the E. coli and B. subtilis MutL-β complexes and have characterized their structures using small angle X-ray scattering. We find that the MutL-β interaction greatly stimulates the endonuclease activity of B. subtilis MutL and supports this activity even in the absence of the N-terminal region of the protein.
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- Monica C Pillon
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 14214, USA Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 14214, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 14214, USA Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 14214, USA Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics Program, The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 14214, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
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Friedhoff P, Li P, Gotthardt J. Protein-protein interactions in DNA mismatch repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2015; 38:50-57. [PMID: 26725162 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2015.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Revised: 11/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The principal DNA mismatch repair proteins MutS and MutL are versatile enzymes that couple DNA mismatch or damage recognition to other cellular processes. Besides interaction with their DNA substrates this involves transient interactions with other proteins which is triggered by the DNA mismatch or damage and controlled by conformational changes. Both MutS and MutL proteins have ATPase activity, which adds another level to control their activity and interactions with DNA substrates and other proteins. Here we focus on the protein-protein interactions, protein interaction sites and the different levels of structural knowledge about the protein complexes formed with MutS and MutL during the mismatch repair reaction.
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- Peter Friedhoff
- Institute for Biochemistry FB 08, Justus Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 17, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.
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- Institute for Biochemistry FB 08, Justus Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 17, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry FB 08, Justus Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 17, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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Evolution of the methyl directed mismatch repair system in Escherichia coli. DNA Repair (Amst) 2015; 38:32-41. [PMID: 26698649 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2015.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2015] [Revised: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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DNA mismatch repair (MMR) repairs mispaired bases in DNA generated by replication errors. MutS or MutS homologs recognize mispairs and coordinate with MutL or MutL homologs to direct excision of the newly synthesized DNA strand. In most organisms, the signal that discriminates between the newly synthesized and template DNA strands has not been definitively identified. In contrast, Escherichia coli and some related gammaproteobacteria use a highly elaborated methyl-directed MMR system that recognizes Dam methyltransferase modification sites that are transiently unmethylated on the newly synthesized strand after DNA replication. Evolution of methyl-directed MMR is characterized by the acquisition of Dam and the MutH nuclease and by the loss of the MutL endonuclease activity. Methyl-directed MMR is present in a subset of Gammaproteobacteria belonging to the orders Enterobacteriales, Pasteurellales, Vibrionales, Aeromonadales, and a subset of the Alteromonadales (the EPVAA group) as well as in gammaproteobacteria that have obtained these genes by horizontal gene transfer, including the medically relevant bacteria Fluoribacter, Legionella, and Tatlockia and the marine bacteria Methylophaga and Nitrosococcus.
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Lenhart JS, Pillon MC, Guarné A, Biteen JS, Simmons LA. Mismatch repair in Gram-positive bacteria. Res Microbiol 2015; 167:4-12. [PMID: 26343983 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2015.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2015] [Revised: 08/14/2015] [Accepted: 08/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is responsible for correcting errors formed during DNA replication. DNA polymerase errors include base mismatches and extra helical nucleotides referred to as insertion and deletion loops. In bacteria, MMR increases the fidelity of the chromosomal DNA replication pathway approximately 100-fold. MMR defects in bacteria reduce replication fidelity and have the potential to affect fitness. In mammals, MMR defects are characterized by an increase in mutation rate and by microsatellite instability. In this review, we discuss current advances in understanding how MMR functions in bacteria lacking the MutH and Dam methylase-dependent MMR pathway.
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- Justin S Lenhart
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States; Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States.
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States.
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Smith CE, Bowen N, Graham WJ, Goellner EM, Srivatsan A, Kolodner RD. Activation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mlh1-Pms1 Endonuclease in a Reconstituted Mismatch Repair System. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:21580-90. [PMID: 26170454 PMCID: PMC4571882 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.662189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Previous studies reported the reconstitution of an Mlh1-Pms1-independent 5′ nick-directed mismatch repair (MMR) reaction using Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteins. Here we describe the reconstitution of a mispair-dependent Mlh1-Pms1 endonuclease activation reaction requiring Msh2-Msh6 (or Msh2-Msh3), proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), and replication factor C (RFC) and a reconstituted Mlh1-Pms1-dependent 3′ nick-directed MMR reaction requiring Msh2-Msh6 (or Msh2-Msh3), exonuclease 1 (Exo1), replication protein A (RPA), RFC, PCNA, and DNA polymerase δ. Both reactions required Mg2+ and Mn2+ for optimal activity. The MMR reaction also required two reaction stages in which the first stage required incubation of Mlh1-Pms1 with substrate DNA, with or without Msh2-Msh6 (or Msh2-Msh3), PCNA, and RFC but did not require nicking of the substrate, followed by a second stage in which other proteins were added. Analysis of different mutant proteins demonstrated that both reactions required a functional Mlh1-Pms1 endonuclease active site, as well as mispair recognition and Mlh1-Pms1 recruitment by Msh2-Msh6 but not sliding clamp formation. Mutant Mlh1-Pms1 and PCNA proteins that were defective for Exo1-independent but not Exo1-dependent MMR in vivo were partially defective in the Mlh1-Pms1 endonuclease and MMR reactions, suggesting that both reactions reflect the activation of Mlh1-Pms1 seen in Exo1-independent MMR in vivo. The availability of this reconstituted MMR reaction should now make it possible to better study both Exo1-independent and Exo1-dependent MMR.
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- From the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
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- From the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Moores-UCSD Cancer Center, and the Institute of Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California 92093
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Heim J, Felder E, Tahir MN, Kaltbeitzel A, Heinrich UR, Brochhausen C, Mailänder V, Tremel W, Brieger J. Genotoxic effects of zinc oxide nanoparticles. NANOSCALE 2015; 7:8931-8938. [PMID: 25916659 DOI: 10.1039/c5nr01167a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The potential toxicity of nanoparticles has currently provoked public and scientific discussions, and attempts to develop generally accepted handling procedures for nanoparticles are under way. The investigation of the impact of nanoparticles on human health is overdue and reliable test systems accounting for the special properties of nanomaterials must be developed. Nanoparticular zinc oxide (ZnO) may be internalised through ambient air or the topical application of cosmetics, only to name a few, with unpredictable health effects. Therefore, we analysed the determinants of ZnO nanoparticle (NP) genotoxicity. ZnO NPs (15-18 nm in diameter) were investigated at concentrations of 0.1, 10 and 100 μg mL(-1) using the cell line A549. Internalised NPs were only infrequently detectable by TEM, but strongly increased Zn(2+) levels in the cytoplasm and even more in the nuclear fraction, as measured by atom absorption spectroscopy, indicative of an internalised zinc and nuclear accumulation. We observed a time and dosage dependent reduction of cellular viability after ZnO NP exposure. ZnCl2 exposure to cells induced similar impairments of cellular viability. Complexation of Zn(2+) with diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA) resulted in the loss of toxicity of NPs, indicating the relevant role of Zn(2+) for ZnO NP toxicity. Foci analyses showed the induction of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) by ZnO NPs and increased intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels. Treatment of the cells with the ROS scavenger N-acetyl-l-cysteine (NAC) resulted in strongly decreased intracellular ROS levels and reduced DNA damage. However, a slow increase of ROS after ZnO NP exposure and reduced but not quashed DSBs after NAC-treatment suggest that Zn(2+) may exert genotoxic activities without the necessity of preceding ROS-induction. Our data indicate that ZnO NP toxicity is a result of cellular Zn(2+) intake. Subsequently increased ROS-levels cause DNA damage. However, we found evidence for the assumption that DNA-DSBs could be caused by Zn(2+) without the involvement of ROS.
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- Julia Heim
- Molecular Tumorbiology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
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Guarné A, Charbonnier JB. Insights from a decade of biophysical studies on MutL: Roles in strand discrimination and mismatch removal. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2015; 117:149-156. [PMID: 25701376 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2015] [Revised: 01/31/2015] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is a conserved pathway that safeguards genome integrity by correcting replication errors. The coordinated actions of two proteins (MutS and MutL) initiate the mismatch repair response and defects in the genes encoding for these proteins have been linked to sporadic and hereditary cancers. The basic steps to repair a mismatch include recognizing the mismatch, discriminating the newly synthesized from the parental strand, removing and re-synthesizing the erroneous strand. Although the DNA mismatch repair pathway has been extensively studied over the last four decades, the strand discrimination mechanism has remained elusive in most organisms. Work over the last decade has brought significant progress onto this step of the pathway, in turn ascribing new and critical roles to the MutL protein. In this review, we describe biochemical, biophysical and structural analyses that have clarified how MutL aids at discriminating the newly synthesized strand from its template and marking it for removal.
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- Alba Guarné
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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- CEA, IBITECS, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CE-Saclay, F-91191 Gif sur Yvette, France; CNRS, URA 2096, F-91191 Gif sur Yvette, France.
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Banasik M, Sachadyn P. Conserved motifs of MutL proteins. Mutat Res 2014; 769:69-79. [PMID: 25771726 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2014.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2014] [Revised: 07/16/2014] [Accepted: 07/22/2014] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The MutL protein is best known for its function in DNA mismatch repair (MMR). However, there is evidence to suggest that MutL is not only the linker connecting the functions of MutS and MutH in MMR, but that it also participates in other repair systems, such as Very Short Patch (VSP), Base Excision (BER) and Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER). This study set out to identify the most highly conserved amino acid sequence motifs in MutL proteins. We analyzed 208 MutL amino acid sequences of 199 representative prokaryotic species belonging to 28 classes of bacteria and archaea. The analysis revealed 16 conserved motifs situated in the ATPase and endonuclease domains, as well as within the disordered loop, and in the MutL regions interacting with the β clamp of DNA polymerase III. The conserved sequence motifs thus determined constitute a structural definition of MutL and they may be used in site-directed mutagenesis studies. We found conserved residues within the potential regions where binding with MutS occurs. However, the existing data does not provide clues as to the possible sites of MutL interactions with the proteins involved in other DNA repair systems such as NER, BER and VSP. We determined the 57 most highly conserved amino acid residues, including 43 which were identical in all the sequences analyzed. The greater part of the most predominantly conserved amino acid residues identified in MutL are identical to the corresponding residues reported as mutational hot-spots in one of its human homologues, MLH1, but not in the other, PMS2. This is the first study to present the conserved sequence motifs of MutL widespread in bacteria and archaea and the classification of MutLs into five groups distinguished on the basis of differences in the C-terminal region. Our analysis is of use in better understanding MutL functions.
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- Michał Banasik
- Gdańsk University of Technology, Microbiology Department, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Gdańsk University of Technology, Microbiology Department, Gdańsk, Poland.
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Campbell CS, Hombauer H, Srivatsan A, Bowen N, Gries K, Desai A, Putnam CD, Kolodner RD. Mlh2 is an accessory factor for DNA mismatch repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004327. [PMID: 24811092 PMCID: PMC4014439 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2014] [Accepted: 03/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the essential mismatch repair (MMR) endonuclease Mlh1-Pms1 forms foci promoted by Msh2-Msh6 or Msh2-Msh3 in response to mispaired bases. Here we analyzed the Mlh1-Mlh2 complex, whose role in MMR has been unclear. Mlh1-Mlh2 formed foci that often colocalized with and had a longer lifetime than Mlh1-Pms1 foci. Mlh1-Mlh2 foci were similar to Mlh1-Pms1 foci: they required mispair recognition by Msh2-Msh6, increased in response to increased mispairs or downstream defects in MMR, and formed after induction of DNA damage by phleomycin but not double-stranded breaks by I-SceI. Mlh1-Mlh2 could be recruited to mispair-containing DNA in vitro by either Msh2-Msh6 or Msh2-Msh3. Deletion of MLH2 caused a synergistic increase in mutation rate in combination with deletion of MSH6 or reduced expression of Pms1. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the S. cerevisiae Mlh2 protein and the mammalian PMS1 protein are homologs. These results support a hypothesis that Mlh1-Mlh2 is a non-essential accessory factor that acts to enhance the activity of Mlh1-Pms1. Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer or HNPCC) is a common cancer predisposition syndrome. In this syndrome, predisposition to cancer results from increased accumulation of mutations due to defective mismatch repair (MMR) caused by a mutation in one of the human mismatch repair genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2. In addition to these genes, various DNA replication factors and the excision factor EXO1 function in the repair of damaged DNA by the MMR pathway. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the MLH2 gene encodes a MutL homolog protein whose role in DNA mismatch repair has been unclear. Here, we used phylogenetic analysis to demonstrate that the S. cerevisiae Mlh2 protein and the mammalian Pms1 protein are homologs. A combination of genetics, biochemistry and imaging studies were used to demonstrate that the Mlh1-Mlh2 complex is recruited to mispair-containing DNA by the Msh2-Msh6 and Msh2-Msh3 mispair recognition complexes where it forms foci that colocalize with Mlh1-Pms1 foci (note that scPms1 is the homolog of hPms2) and augments the function of the Mlh1-Pms1 complex. Thus, this work establishes the Mlh1-Mlh2 complex as a non-essential accessory factor that functions in MMR.
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- Christopher S. Campbell
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 581, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 581, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Moores-UCSD Cancer Center, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Moores-UCSD Cancer Center, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Martín-López JV, Fishel R. The mechanism of mismatch repair and the functional analysis of mismatch repair defects in Lynch syndrome. Fam Cancer 2014; 12:159-68. [PMID: 23572416 DOI: 10.1007/s10689-013-9635-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The majority of Lynch syndrome (LS), also known as hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), has been linked to heterozygous defects in DNA mismatch repair (MMR). MMR is a highly conserved pathway that recognizes and repairs polymerase misincorporation errors and nucleotide damage as well as functioning as a damage sensor that signals apoptosis. Loss-of-heterozygosity (LOH) that retains the mutant MMR allele and epigenetic silencing of MMR genes are associated with an increased mutation rate that drives carcinogenesis as well as microsatellite instability that is a hallmark of LS/HNPCC. Understanding the biophysical functions of the MMR components is crucial to elucidating the role of MMR in human tumorigenesis and determining the pathogenetic consequences of patients that present in the clinic with an uncharacterized variant of the MMR genes. We summarize the historical association between LS/HNPCC and MMR, discuss the mechanism of the MMR and finally examine the functional analysis of MMR defects found in LS/HNPCC patients and their relationship with the severity of the disease.
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- Juana V Martín-López
- Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Human Cancer Genetics, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Rogacheva MV, Manhart CM, Chen C, Guarne A, Surtees J, Alani E. Mlh1-Mlh3, a meiotic crossover and DNA mismatch repair factor, is a Msh2-Msh3-stimulated endonuclease. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:5664-73. [PMID: 24403070 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.534644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Crossing over between homologous chromosomes is initiated in meiotic prophase in most sexually reproducing organisms by the appearance of programmed double strand breaks throughout the genome. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae the double-strand breaks are resected to form three prime single-strand tails that primarily invade complementary sequences in unbroken homologs. These invasion intermediates are converted into double Holliday junctions and then resolved into crossovers that facilitate homolog segregation during Meiosis I. Work in yeast suggests that Msh4-Msh5 stabilizes invasion intermediates and double Holliday junctions, which are resolved into crossovers in steps requiring Sgs1 helicase, Exo1, and a putative endonuclease activity encoded by the DNA mismatch repair factor Mlh1-Mlh3. We purified Mlh1-Mlh3 and showed that it is a metal-dependent and Msh2-Msh3-stimulated endonuclease that makes single-strand breaks in supercoiled DNA. These observations support a direct role for an Mlh1-Mlh3 endonuclease activity in resolving recombination intermediates and in DNA mismatch repair.
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- Maria V Rogacheva
- From the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2703
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Smith CE, Mendillo ML, Bowen N, Hombauer H, Campbell CS, Desai A, Putnam CD, Kolodner RD. Dominant mutations in S. cerevisiae PMS1 identify the Mlh1-Pms1 endonuclease active site and an exonuclease 1-independent mismatch repair pathway. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003869. [PMID: 24204293 PMCID: PMC3814310 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolypsis colorectal cancer or HNPCC) is a common cancer predisposition syndrome. Predisposition to cancer in this syndrome results from increased accumulation of mutations due to defective mismatch repair (MMR) caused by a mutation in one of the mismatch repair genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2/scPMS1. To better understand the function of Mlh1-Pms1 in MMR, we used Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify six pms1 mutations (pms1-G683E, pms1-C817R, pms1-C848S, pms1-H850R, pms1-H703A and pms1-E707A) that were weakly dominant in wild-type cells, which surprisingly caused a strong MMR defect when present on low copy plasmids in an exo1Δ mutant. Molecular modeling showed these mutations caused amino acid substitutions in the metal coordination pocket of the Pms1 endonuclease active site and biochemical studies showed that they inactivated the endonuclease activity. This model of Mlh1-Pms1 suggested that the Mlh1-FERC motif contributes to the endonuclease active site. Consistent with this, the mlh1-E767stp mutation caused both MMR and endonuclease defects similar to those caused by the dominant pms1 mutations whereas mutations affecting the predicted metal coordinating residue Mlh1-C769 had no effect. These studies establish that the Mlh1-Pms1 endonuclease is required for MMR in a previously uncharacterized Exo1-independent MMR pathway. Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolypsis colorectal cancer or HNPCC) is a common cancer predisposition syndrome. Predisposition to cancer in this syndrome results from increased accumulation of mutations due to defective mismatch repair (MMR) caused by a mutation in one of the mismatch repair genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2/scPMS1. In addition to these genes, various DNA replication factors and the excision factor EXO1 function in the repair of damaged DNA by the MMR pathway. Although EXO1 is considered to be the major repair nuclease functioning in mismatch repair, the relatively low mutation rates caused by an exo1 deletion suggest otherwise. Here we used genetics, microscopy and protein biochemistry to analyze the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae to further characterize a poorly understood mismatch repair pathway that functions in the absence of EXO1 that is highly dependent on the Mlh1-Pms1 complex. Surprisingly, we found that the highly conserved metal binding site that is critical for the endonuclease activity of the Mlh1-Pms1 heterodimer is required for MMR in the absence of Exo1 to a much greater extent than in the presence of Exo1. Thus, this work establishes that there are at least two different polynucleotide excision pathways that function in MMR.
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- Catherine E Smith
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Miguel V, Correa EME, De Tullio L, Barra JL, Argaraña CE, Villarreal MA. Analysis of the interaction interfaces of the N-terminal domain from Pseudomonas aeruginosa MutL. PLoS One 2013; 8:e69907. [PMID: 23922851 PMCID: PMC3724809 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2013] [Accepted: 06/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Mismatch Repair System corrects mutations arising from DNA replication that escape from DNA polymerase proofreading activity. This system consists of three main proteins, MutS-L-H, responsible for lesion recognition and repair. MutL is a member of GHKL ATPase family and its ATPase cycle has been proposed to modulate MutL activity during the repair process. Pseudomonas aeruginosa MutL (PaMutL) contains an N-terminal (NTD) ATPase domain connected by a linker to a C-terminal (CTD) dimerization domain that possesses metal ion-dependent endonuclease activity. With the aim to identify characteristics that allow the PaMutL NTD allosteric control of CTD endonuclease activity, we used an in silico and experimental approach to determine the interaction surfaces of P. aeruginosa NTD (PaNTD), and compared it with the well characterized Escherichia coli MutL NTD (EcNTD). Molecular dynamics simulations of PaNTD and EcNTD bound to or free of adenosine nucleotides showed that a significant difference exists between the behavior of the EcNTD and PaNTD dimerization interface, particularly in the ATP lid. Structure based simulations of MutL homologues with endonuclease activity were performed that allowed an insight of the dimerization interface behavior in this family of proteins. Our experimental results show that, unlike EcNTD, PaNTD is dimeric in presence of ADP. Simulations in mixed solvent allowed us to identify the PaNTD putative DNA binding patch and a putative interaction patch located opposite to the dimerization face. Structure based simulations of PaNTD dimer in presence of ADP or ATP suggest that nucleotide binding could differentially modulate PaNTD protein-protein interactions. Far western assays performed in presence of ADP or ATP are in agreement with our in silico analysis.
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- Virginia Miguel
- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC), CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC), CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC), CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC), CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC), CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-Química de Córdoba (INFIQC), CONICET, Departamento de Matemática y Física, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, Argentina
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Phillips D, Wnetrzak J, Nibau C, Barakate A, Ramsay L, Wright F, Higgins JD, Perry RM, Jenkins G. Quantitative high resolution mapping of HvMLH3 foci in barley pachytene nuclei reveals a strong distal bias and weak interference. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2013; 64:2139-54. [PMID: 23554258 PMCID: PMC3654414 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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In barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), chiasmata (the physical sites of genetic crossovers) are skewed towards the distal ends of chromosomes, effectively consigning a large proportion of genes to recombination coldspots. This has the effect of limiting potential genetic variability, and of reducing the efficiency of map-based cloning and breeding approaches for this crop. Shifting the sites of recombination to more proximal chromosome regions by forward and reverse genetic means may be profitable in terms of realizing the genetic potential of the species, but is predicated upon a better understanding of the mechanisms governing the sites of these events, and upon the ability to recognize real changes in recombination patterns. The barley MutL Homologue (HvMLH3), a marker for class I interfering crossovers, has been isolated and a specific antibody has been raised. Immunolocalization of HvMLH3 along with the synaptonemal complex transverse filament protein ZYP1, used in conjunction with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) tagging of specific barley chromosomes, has enabled access to the physical recombination landscape of the barley cultivars Morex and Bowman. Consistent distal localization of HvMLH3 foci throughout the genome, and similar patterns of HvMLH3 foci within bivalents 2H and 3H have been observed. A difference in total numbers of HvMLH3 foci between these two cultivars has been quantified, which is interpreted as representing genotypic variation in class I crossover frequency. Discrepancies between the frequencies of HvMLH3 foci and crossover frequencies derived from linkage analysis point to the existence of at least two crossover pathways in barley. It is also shown that interference of HvMLH3 foci is relatively weak compared with other plant species.
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- Dylan Phillips
- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DA, UK
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DA, UK
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DA, UK
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- Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DA, UK
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Structure of the MutLα C-terminal domain reveals how Mlh1 contributes to Pms1 endonuclease site. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2013; 20:461-8. [PMID: 23435383 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2012] [Accepted: 01/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Mismatch-repair factors have a prominent role in surveying eukaryotic DNA-replication fidelity and in ensuring correct meiotic recombination. These functions depend on MutL-homolog heterodimers with Mlh1. In humans, MLH1 mutations underlie half of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancers (HNPCCs). Here we report crystal structures of the MutLα (Mlh1-Pms1 heterodimer) C-terminal domain (CTD) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, alone and in complex with fragments derived from Mlh1 partners. These structures reveal structural rearrangements and additional domains in MutLα as compared to the bacterial MutL counterparts and show that the strictly conserved C terminus of Mlh1 forms part of the Pms1 endonuclease site. The structures of the ternary complexes between MutLα(CTD) and Exo1 or Ntg2 fragments reveal the binding mode of the MIP-box motif shared by several Mlh1 partners. Finally, the structures provide a rationale for the deleterious impact of MLH1 mutations in HNPCCs.
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Hinrichsen I, Brieger A, Trojan J, Zeuzem S, Nilbert M, Plotz G. Expression defect size among unclassified MLH1 variants determines pathogenicity in Lynch syndrome diagnosis. Clin Cancer Res 2013; 19:2432-41. [PMID: 23403630 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-12-3299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Lynch syndrome is caused by a germline mutation in a mismatch repair gene, most commonly the MLH1 gene. However, one third of the identified alterations are missense variants with unclear clinical significance. The functionality of these variants can be tested in the laboratory, but the results cannot be used for clinical diagnosis. We therefore aimed to establish a laboratory test that can be applied clinically. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We assessed the expression, stability, and mismatch repair activity of 38 MLH1 missense variants and determined the pathogenicity status of recurrent variants using clinical data. RESULTS Four recurrent variants were classified as neutral (K618A, H718Y, E578G, V716M) and three as pathogenic (A681T, L622H, P654L). All seven variants were proficient in mismatch repair but showed defects in expression. Quantitative PCR, pulse-chase, and thermal stability experiments confirmed decreases in protein stability, which were stronger in the pathogenic variants. The minimal cellular MLH1 concentration for mismatch repair was determined, which corroborated that strongly destabilized variants can cause repair deficiency. Loss of MLH1 tumor immunostaining is consistently reported in carriers of the pathogenic variants, showing the impact of this protein instability on these tumors. CONCLUSIONS Expression defects are frequent among MLH1 missense variants, but only severe defects cause Lynch syndrome. The data obtained here enabled us to establish a threshold for distinguishing tolerable (clinically neutral) from pathogenic expression defects. This threshold allows the translation of laboratory results for uncertain MLH1 variants into pathogenicity statements for diagnosis, thereby improving the targeting of cancer prevention measures in affected families.
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- Inga Hinrichsen
- Medizinische Klinik 1, Biomedical Research Laboratory, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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Characterization of C- and N-terminal domains of Aquifex aeolicus MutL endonuclease: N-terminal domain stimulates the endonuclease activity of C-terminal domain in a zinc-dependent manner. Biosci Rep 2012; 31:309-22. [PMID: 20961292 DOI: 10.1042/bsr20100116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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DNA MMR (mismatch repair) is an excision repair system that removes mismatched bases generated primarily by failure of the 3'-5' proofreading activity associated with replicative DNA polymerases. MutL proteins homologous to human PMS2 are the endonucleases that introduce the entry point of the excision reaction. Deficiency in PMS2 function is one of the major etiologies of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancers in humans. Although recent studies revealed that the CTD (C-terminal domain) of MutL harbours weak endonuclease activity, the regulatory mechanism of this activity remains unknown. In this paper, we characterize in detail the CTD and NTD (N-terminal domain) of aqMutL (Aquifex aeolicus MutL). On the one hand, CTD existed as a dimer in solution and showed weak DNA-binding and Mn2+-dependent endonuclease activities. On the other hand, NTD was monomeric and exhibited a relatively strong DNA-binding activity. It was also clarified that NTD promotes the endonuclease activity of CTD. NTD-mediated activation of CTD was abolished by depletion of the zinc-ion from the reaction mixture or by the substitution of the zinc-binding cysteine residue in CTD with an alanine. On the basis of these results, we propose a model for the intramolecular regulatory mechanism of MutL endonuclease activity.
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Brieger A, Plotz G, Hinrichsen I, Passmann S, Adam R, Zeuzem S. C-terminal fluorescent labeling impairs functionality of DNA mismatch repair proteins. PLoS One 2012; 7:e31863. [PMID: 22348133 PMCID: PMC3279419 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2011] [Accepted: 01/13/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The human DNA mismatch repair (MMR) process is crucial to maintain the integrity of the genome and requires many different proteins which interact perfectly and coordinated. Germline mutations in MMR genes are responsible for the development of the hereditary form of colorectal cancer called Lynch syndrome. Various mutations mainly in two MMR proteins, MLH1 and MSH2, have been identified so far, whereas 55% are detected within MLH1, the essential component of the heterodimer MutLα (MLH1 and PMS2). Most of those MLH1 variants are pathogenic but the relevance of missense mutations often remains unclear. Many different recombinant systems are applied to filter out disease-associated proteins whereby fluorescent tagged proteins are frequently used. However, dye labeling might have deleterious effects on MutLα's functionality. Therefore, we analyzed the consequences of N- and C-terminal fluorescent labeling on expression level, cellular localization and MMR activity of MutLα. Besides significant influence of GFP- or Red-fusion on protein expression we detected incorrect shuttling of single expressed C-terminal GFP-tagged PMS2 into the nucleus and found that C-terminal dye labeling impaired MMR function of MutLα. In contrast, N-terminal tagged MutLαs retained correct functionality and can be recommended both for the analysis of cellular localization and MMR efficiency.
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- Angela Brieger
- Department of Medicine I, University of Frankfurt/M., Frankfurt, Germany.
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The functions of MutL in mismatch repair: the power of multitasking. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2012; 110:41-70. [PMID: 22749142 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-387665-2.00003-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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DNA mismatch repair enhances genomic stability by correcting errors that have escaped polymerase proofreading. One of the critical steps in DNA mismatch repair is discriminating the new from the parental DNA strand as only the former needs repair. In Escherichia coli, the latent endonuclease MutH carries out this function. However, most prokaryotes and all eukaryotes lack a mutH gene. MutL is a key component of this system that mediates protein-protein interactions during mismatch recognition, strand discrimination, and strand removal. Hence, it had long been thought that the primary function of MutL was coordinating sequential mismatch repair steps. However, recent studies have revealed that most MutL homologs from organisms lacking MutH encode a conserved metal-binding motif associated with a weak endonuclease activity. As MutL homologs bearing this activity are found only in organisms relying on MutH-independent DNA mismatch repair, this finding unveils yet another crucial function of the MutL protein at the strand discrimination step. In this chapter, we review recent functional and structural work aimed at characterizing the multiple functions of MutL and discuss how the endonuclease activity of MutL is regulated by other repair factors.
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Yamamoto T, Iino H, Kim K, Kuramitsu S, Fukui K. Evidence for ATP-dependent structural rearrangement of nuclease catalytic site in DNA mismatch repair endonuclease MutL. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:42337-42348. [PMID: 21953455 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.277335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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DNA mismatch repair (MMR) greatly contributes to genome integrity via the correction of mismatched bases that are mainly generated by replication errors. Postreplicative MMR excises a relatively long tract of error-containing single-stranded DNA. MutL is a widely conserved nicking endonuclease that directs the excision reaction to the error-containing strand of the duplex by specifically nicking the daughter strand. Because MutL apparently exhibits nonspecific nicking endonuclease activity in vitro, the regulatory mechanism of MutL has been argued. Recent studies suggest ATP-dependent conformational and functional changes of MutL, indicating that the regulatory mechanism involves the ATP binding and hydrolysis cycle. In this study, we investigated the effect of ATP binding on the structure of MutL. First, a cross-linking experiment confirmed that the N-terminal ATPase domain physically interacts with the C-terminal endonuclease domain. Next, hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry clarified that the binding of ATP to the N-terminal domain induces local structural changes at the catalytic sites of MutL C-terminal domain. Finally, on the basis of the results of the hydrogen/deuterium exchange experiment, we successfully identified novel regions essential for the endonuclease activity of MutL. The results clearly show that ATP modulates the nicking endonuclease activity of MutL via structural rearrangements of the catalytic site. In addition, several Lynch syndrome-related mutations in human MutL homolog are located in the position corresponding to the newly identified catalytic region. Our data contribute toward understanding the relationship between mutations in MutL homolog and human disease.
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- Tatsuya Yamamoto
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan; Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan.
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Correa EME, Martina MA, De Tullio L, Argaraña CE, Barra JL. Some amino acids of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa MutL D(Q/M)HA(X)(2)E(X)(4)E conserved motif are essential for the in vivo function of the protein but not for the in vitro endonuclease activity. DNA Repair (Amst) 2011; 10:1106-13. [PMID: 21889424 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2011.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2011] [Revised: 08/05/2011] [Accepted: 08/10/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Human and Saccharomyces cerevisiae MutLα, and some bacterial MutL proteins, possess a metal ion-dependent endonuclease activity which is important for the in vivo function of these proteins. Conserved amino acids of the C-terminal region of human PMS2, S. cerevisiae PMS1 and of some bacterial MutL proteins have been implicated in the metal-binding/endonuclease activity. However, the contribution of individual amino acids to these activities has not yet been fully elucidated. In this work we show that Pseudomonas aeruginosa MutL protein possess an in vitro metal ion-dependent endonuclease activity. In agreement with previous published results, we observed that mutation of the aspartic acid, the first histidine or the first glutamic acid of the conserved C-terminal DMHAAHERITYE region results in nonfunctional in vivo proteins. We also determined that the arginine residue is essential for the in vivo function of this protein. However, we unexpectedly observed that although the first glutamic acid mutant derivative is not functional in vivo, its in vitro endonuclease activity is even higher than that of the wild-type protein.
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- Elisa M E Correa
- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Haya de la Torre y Medina Allende, Ciudad Universitaria, X5000HUA, Córdoba, Argentina
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Brieger A, Adam R, Passmann S, Plotz G, Zeuzem S, Trojan J. A CRM1-dependent nuclear export pathway is involved in the regulation of MutLα subcellular localization. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2011; 50:59-70. [PMID: 21064154 DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023] Open
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MutLα plays an essential role in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) and is additionally involved in other cellular mechanisms such as the regulation of cell cycle checkpoints and apoptosis. Therefore, not only germline MMR gene defects but also the subcellular localization of MutLα might be of importance for the development of Lynch syndrome. Recently, we showed that MutLα contains functional nuclear import sequences and is most frequently localized in the nucleus. Here, we demonstrate that MutLα can move bidirectionally towards the nuclear membrane. Using MutLα transfected HEK293T cells we observed a significant shift of MLH1 and PMS2 from the nucleus to the cytoplasm after irradiation or cisplatin treatment. We analyzed both proteins for potential nuclear export sequences (NES) and identified one functional Rev-type NES (⁵⁷⁸LFDLAMLAL) in the C-terminal part of MLH1 that facilitates export via the CRM1/exportin pathway. Moreover, an MLH1-NES mutation detected in a patient with Lynch syndrome showed normal MMR activity but led to significantly impaired cytoplasmic transport after actinomycin D treatment. These results indicate that MutLα is able to shuttle from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, probably signaling DNA damages to downstream pathways. In conclusion, not only a defective MMR but also impaired nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling might result in the onset of Lynch syndrome.
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- Angela Brieger
- Medical Clinic I, Biomedical Research Laboratory, Goethe-University, Frankfurt a.M., Germany.
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Pillon MC, Miller JH, Guarné A. The endonuclease domain of MutL interacts with the β sliding clamp. DNA Repair (Amst) 2010; 10:87-93. [PMID: 21050827 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2010.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2010] [Revised: 10/06/2010] [Accepted: 10/07/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Mismatch repair corrects errors that have escaped polymerase proofreading enhancing replication fidelity by at least two orders of magnitude. The β and PCNA sliding clamps increase the polymerase processivity during DNA replication and are important at several stages of mismatch repair. Both MutS and MutL, the two proteins that initiate the mismatch repair response, interact with β. Binding of MutS to β is important to recruit MutS and MutL to foci. Moreover, the endonuclease activity of human and yeast MutLα is stimulated by PCNA. However, the concrete functions of the processivity clamp in the repair steps preceding DNA resynthesis remain obscure. Here, we demonstrate that the C-terminal domain of MutL encompasses a bona fide β-binding motif that mediates a weak, yet specific, interaction between the two proteins. Mutation of this conserved motif correlates with defects in mismatch repair, demonstrating that the direct interaction with β is important for MutL function. The interaction between the C-terminal domain of MutL and β is conserved in both Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli, but the repair defects associated with mutation of this β-binding motif are more severe in the former, suggesting that this interaction may have a more prominent role in methyl-independent than methyl-directed mismatch repair systems. Together with previously published data, our work strongly suggests that β may stimulate the endonuclease activity of MutL through its direct interaction with the C-terminal domain of MutL.
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- Monica C Pillon
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Namadurai S, Jain D, Kulkarni DS, Tabib CR, Friedhoff P, Rao DN, Nair DT. The C-terminal domain of the MutL homolog from Neisseria gonorrhoeae forms an inverted homodimer. PLoS One 2010; 5:e13726. [PMID: 21060849 PMCID: PMC2965676 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2010] [Accepted: 09/23/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The mismatch repair (MMR) pathway serves to maintain the integrity of the genome by removing mispaired bases from the newly synthesized strand. In E. coli, MutS, MutL and MutH coordinate to discriminate the daughter strand through a mechanism involving lack of methylation on the new strand. This facilitates the creation of a nick by MutH in the daughter strand to initiate mismatch repair. Many bacteria and eukaryotes, including humans, do not possess a homolog of MutH. Although the exact strategy for strand discrimination in these organisms is yet to be ascertained, the required nicking endonuclease activity is resident in the C-terminal domain of MutL. This activity is dependent on the integrity of a conserved metal binding motif. Unlike their eukaryotic counterparts, MutL in bacteria like Neisseria exist in the form of a homodimer. Even though this homodimer would possess two active sites, it still acts a nicking endonuclease. Here, we present the crystal structure of the C-terminal domain (CTD) of the MutL homolog of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NgoL) determined to a resolution of 2.4 Å. The structure shows that the metal binding motif exists in a helical configuration and that four of the six conserved motifs in the MutL family, including the metal binding site, localize together to form a composite active site. NgoL-CTD exists in the form of an elongated inverted homodimer stabilized by a hydrophobic interface rich in leucines. The inverted arrangement places the two composite active sites in each subunit on opposite lateral sides of the homodimer. Such an arrangement raises the possibility that one of the active sites is occluded due to interaction of NgoL with other protein factors involved in MMR. The presentation of only one active site to substrate DNA will ensure that nicking of only one strand occurs to prevent inadvertent and deleterious double stranded cleavage.
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- Laboratory 4, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Institut für Biochemie (FB 08), Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Laboratory 4, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
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Kosinski J, Hinrichsen I, Bujnicki JM, Friedhoff P, Plotz G. Identification of Lynch syndrome mutations in the MLH1-PMS2 interface that disturb dimerization and mismatch repair. Hum Mutat 2010; 31:975-82. [PMID: 20533529 DOI: 10.1002/humu.21301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Missense alterations of the mismatch repair gene MLH1 have been identified in a significant proportion of individuals suspected of having Lynch syndrome, a hereditary syndrome that predisposes for cancer of colon and endometrium. The pathogenicity of many of these alterations, however, is unclear. A number of MLH1 alterations are located in the C-terminal domain (CTD) of MLH1, which is responsible for constitutive dimerization with PMS2. We analyzed which alterations may result in pathogenic effects due to interference with dimerization. We used a structural model of CTD of MLH1-PMS2 heterodimer to select 19 MLH1 alterations located inside and outside two candidate dimerization interfaces in the MLH1-CTD. Three alterations (p.Gln542Leu, p.Leu749Pro, p.Tyr750X) caused decreased coexpression of PMS2, which is unstable in the absence of interaction with MLH1, suggesting that these alterations interfere with dimerization. All three alterations are located within the dimerization interface suggested by our model. They also compromised mismatch repair, suggesting that defects in dimerization abrogate repair and confirming that all three alterations are pathogenic. Additionally, we provided biochemical evidence that four alterations with uncertain pathogenicity (p.Ala586Pro, p.Leu636Pro, p.Thr662Pro, and p.Arg755Trp) are deleterious because of poor expression or poor repair efficiency, and confirm the deleterious effect of eight further alterations.
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- Jan Kosinski
- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
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Nucleases cleave the phosphodiester bonds of nucleic acids and may be endo or exo, DNase or RNase, topoisomerases, recombinases, ribozymes, or RNA splicing enzymes. In this review, I survey nuclease activities with known structures and catalytic machinery and classify them by reaction mechanism and metal-ion dependence and by their biological function ranging from DNA replication, recombination, repair, RNA maturation, processing, interference, to defense, nutrient regeneration or cell death. Several general principles emerge from this analysis. There is little correlation between catalytic mechanism and biological function. A single catalytic mechanism can be adapted in a variety of reactions and biological pathways. Conversely, a single biological process can often be accomplished by multiple tertiary and quaternary folds and by more than one catalytic mechanism. Two-metal-ion-dependent nucleases comprise the largest number of different tertiary folds and mediate the most diverse set of biological functions. Metal-ion-dependent cleavage is exclusively associated with exonucleases producing mononucleotides and endonucleases that cleave double- or single-stranded substrates in helical and base-stacked conformations. All metal-ion-independent RNases generate 2',3'-cyclic phosphate products, and all metal-ion-independent DNases form phospho-protein intermediates. I also find several previously unnoted relationships between different nucleases and shared catalytic configurations.
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Structure of the endonuclease domain of MutL: unlicensed to cut. Mol Cell 2010; 39:145-51. [PMID: 20603082 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2010] [Revised: 04/05/2010] [Accepted: 05/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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DNA mismatch repair corrects errors that have escaped polymerase proofreading, increasing replication fidelity 100- to 1000-fold in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. The MutL protein plays a central role in mismatch repair by coordinating multiple protein-protein interactions that signal strand removal upon mismatch recognition by MutS. Here we report the crystal structure of the endonuclease domain of Bacillus subtilis MutL. The structure is organized in dimerization and regulatory subdomains connected by a helical lever spanning the conserved endonuclease motif. Additional conserved motifs cluster around the lever and define a Zn(2+)-binding site that is critical for MutL function in vivo. The structure unveils a powerful inhibitory mechanism to prevent undesired nicking of newly replicated DNA and allows us to propose a model describing how the interaction with MutS and the processivity clamp could license the endonuclease activity of MutL. The structure also provides a molecular framework to propose and test additional roles of MutL in mismatch repair.
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Fukui K. DNA mismatch repair in eukaryotes and bacteria. J Nucleic Acids 2010; 2010. [PMID: 20725617 PMCID: PMC2915661 DOI: 10.4061/2010/260512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2010] [Accepted: 06/24/2010] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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DNA mismatch repair (MMR) corrects mismatched base pairs mainly caused by DNA replication errors. The fundamental mechanisms and proteins involved in the early reactions of MMR are highly conserved in almost all organisms ranging from bacteria to human. The significance of this repair system is also indicated by the fact that defects in MMR cause human hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancers as well as sporadic tumors. To date, 2 types of MMRs are known: the human type and Escherichia coli type. The basic features of the former system are expected to be universal among the vast majority of organisms including most bacteria. Here, I review the molecular mechanisms of eukaryotic and bacterial MMR, emphasizing on the similarities between them.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kenji Fukui
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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