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Diatlova EA, Mechetin GV, Yudkina AV, Zharkov VD, Torgasheva NA, Endutkin AV, Shulenina OV, Konevega AL, Gileva IP, Shchelkunov SN, Zharkov DO. Correlated Target Search by Vaccinia Virus Uracil-DNA Glycosylase, a DNA Repair Enzyme and a Processivity Factor of Viral Replication Machinery. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24119113. [PMID: 37298065 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24119113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Revised: 05/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023] Open
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The protein encoded by the vaccinia virus D4R gene has base excision repair uracil-DNA N-glycosylase (vvUNG) activity and also acts as a processivity factor in the viral replication complex. The use of a protein unlike PolN/PCNA sliding clamps is a unique feature of orthopoxviral replication, providing an attractive target for drug design. However, the intrinsic processivity of vvUNG has never been estimated, leaving open the question whether it is sufficient to impart processivity to the viral polymerase. Here, we use the correlated cleavage assay to characterize the translocation of vvUNG along DNA between two uracil residues. The salt dependence of the correlated cleavage, together with the similar affinity of vvUNG for damaged and undamaged DNA, support the one-dimensional diffusion mechanism of lesion search. Unlike short gaps, covalent adducts partly block vvUNG translocation. Kinetic experiments show that once a lesion is found it is excised with a probability ~0.76. Varying the distance between two uracils, we use a random walk model to estimate the mean number of steps per association with DNA at ~4200, which is consistent with vvUNG playing a role as a processivity factor. Finally, we show that inhibitors carrying a tetrahydro-2,4,6-trioxopyrimidinylidene moiety can suppress the processivity of vvUNG.
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- Evgeniia A Diatlova
- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Biology Department, Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute"-B. P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Leningrad Region, 188300 Gatchina, Russia
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute"-B. P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Leningrad Region, 188300 Gatchina, Russia
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- State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vector, Novosibirsk Region, 630559 Koltsovo, Russia
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- State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vector, Novosibirsk Region, 630559 Koltsovo, Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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Roy R. Simultaneous Short- and Long-Patch Base Excision Repair (BER) Assay in Live Mammalian Cells. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2701:3-19. [PMID: 37574472 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3373-1_1] [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] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
Abstract
The base excision repair (BER) pathway repairs small, non-bulky DNA lesions, including oxidized, alkylated, and deaminated bases, and is responsible for the removal of at least 20,000 DNA lesions per cell per day. BER is initiated by DNA damage-specific DNA glycosylases that excise the damaged base and generates an abasic (AP) site or single-strand breaks, which are subsequently repaired in mammalian cells either by single-nucleotide (SN) or multiple-nucleotide incorporation via the SN-BER or long-patch BER (LP-BER) pathway, respectively. This chapter describes a plaque-based host cell reactivation (PL-HCR) assay system for measuring BER mechanisms in live mammalian cells using a plasmid-based assay. After transfection of a phagemid (M13mp18) containing a single modified base (representative BER DNA substrates) within a restriction site into human cells, restriction digestions detect the presence or absence (complete repair) of the adduct by the transformation of the digestion products into E. coli and counting the transformants as plaques. To monitor the patch size, different plasmids are constructed containing C:A mismatches within different restriction sites (inhibiting digestion) at various distances on both sides (5' or 3') of the modified base-containing restriction sites. Using this assay, the percentage of repair events that occur via 5' and 3' patch formation can be quantified.
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- Rabindra Roy
- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
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Diatlova EA, Mechetin GV, Zharkov DO. Distinct Mechanisms of Target Search by Endonuclease VIII-like DNA Glycosylases. Cells 2022; 11:cells11203192. [PMID: 36291061 PMCID: PMC9600533 DOI: 10.3390/cells11203192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Revised: 10/08/2022] [Accepted: 10/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Proteins that recognize specific DNA sequences or structural elements often find their cognate DNA lesions in a processive mode, in which an enzyme binds DNA non-specifically and then slides along the DNA contour by one-dimensional diffusion. Opposite to the processive mechanism is distributive search, when an enzyme binds, samples and releases DNA without significant lateral movement. Many DNA glycosylases, the repair enzymes that excise damaged bases from DNA, use processive search to find their cognate lesions. Here, using a method based on correlated cleavage of multiply damaged oligonucleotide substrates we investigate the mechanism of lesion search by three structurally related DNA glycosylases—bacterial endonuclease VIII (Nei) and its mammalian homologs NEIL1 and NEIL2. Similarly to another homologous enzyme, bacterial formamidopyrimidine–DNA glycosylase, NEIL1 seems to use a processive mode to locate its targets. However, the processivity of Nei was notably lower, and NEIL2 exhibited almost fully distributive action on all types of substrates. Although one-dimensional diffusion is often regarded as a universal search mechanism, our results indicate that even proteins sharing a common fold may be quite different in the ways they locate their targets in DNA.
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- Evgeniia A. Diatlova
- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Correspondence:
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Torgasheva NA, Diatlova EA, Grin IR, Endutkin AV, Mechetin GV, Vokhtantsev IP, Yudkina AV, Zharkov DO. Noncatalytic Domains in DNA Glycosylases. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23137286. [PMID: 35806289 PMCID: PMC9266487 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23137286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2022] [Revised: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Many proteins consist of two or more structural domains: separate parts that have a defined structure and function. For example, in enzymes, the catalytic activity is often localized in a core fragment, while other domains or disordered parts of the same protein participate in a number of regulatory processes. This situation is often observed in many DNA glycosylases, the proteins that remove damaged nucleobases thus initiating base excision DNA repair. This review covers the present knowledge about the functions and evolution of such noncatalytic parts in DNA glycosylases, mostly concerned with the human enzymes but also considering some unique members of this group coming from plants and prokaryotes.
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- Natalia A. Torgasheva
- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (N.A.T.); (E.A.D.); (I.R.G.); (A.V.E.); (G.V.M.); (I.P.V.); (A.V.Y.)
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (N.A.T.); (E.A.D.); (I.R.G.); (A.V.E.); (G.V.M.); (I.P.V.); (A.V.Y.)
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Street, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (N.A.T.); (E.A.D.); (I.R.G.); (A.V.E.); (G.V.M.); (I.P.V.); (A.V.Y.)
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (N.A.T.); (E.A.D.); (I.R.G.); (A.V.E.); (G.V.M.); (I.P.V.); (A.V.Y.)
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (N.A.T.); (E.A.D.); (I.R.G.); (A.V.E.); (G.V.M.); (I.P.V.); (A.V.Y.)
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (N.A.T.); (E.A.D.); (I.R.G.); (A.V.E.); (G.V.M.); (I.P.V.); (A.V.Y.)
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Street, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (N.A.T.); (E.A.D.); (I.R.G.); (A.V.E.); (G.V.M.); (I.P.V.); (A.V.Y.)
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (N.A.T.); (E.A.D.); (I.R.G.); (A.V.E.); (G.V.M.); (I.P.V.); (A.V.Y.)
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Street, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Correspondence:
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Zhang X, Yin M, Hu J. Nucleotide excision repair: a versatile and smart toolkit. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 2022; 54:807-819. [PMID: 35975604 PMCID: PMC9828404 DOI: 10.3724/abbs.2022054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a major pathway to deal with bulky adducts induced by various environmental toxins in all cellular organisms. The two sub-pathways of NER, global genome repair (GGR) and transcription-coupled repair (TCR), differ in the damage recognition modes. In this review, we describe the molecular mechanism of NER in mammalian cells, especially the details of damage recognition steps in both sub-pathways. We also introduce new sequencing methods for genome-wide mapping of NER, as well as recent advances about NER in chromatin by these methods. Finally, the roles of NER factors in repairing oxidative damages and resolving R-loops are discussed.
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- Correspondence address. Tel: +86-21-54237702; E-mail:
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Li L, Kumar AK, Hu Z, Guo Z. Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting Key Proteins in the DNA Damage Response for Cancer Therapy. Curr Med Chem 2021; 28:963-985. [PMID: 32091326 DOI: 10.2174/0929867327666200224102309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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DNA damage response (DDR) is a complicated interactional pathway. Defects that occur in subordinate pathways of the DDR pathway can lead to genomic instability and cancer susceptibility. Abnormal expression of some proteins in DDR, especially in the DNA repair pathway, are associated with the subsistence and resistance of cancer cells. Therefore, the development of small molecule inhibitors targeting the chief proteins in the DDR pathway is an effective strategy for cancer therapy. In this review, we summarize the development of small molecule inhibitors targeting chief proteins in the DDR pathway, particularly focusing on their implications for cancer therapy. We present the action mode of DDR molecule inhibitors in preclinical studies and clinical cancer therapy, including monotherapy and combination therapy with chemotherapeutic drugs or checkpoint suppression therapy.
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- Lulu Li
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 WenYuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 WenYuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 WenYuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 WenYuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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Westwood MN, Ljunggren KD, Boyd B, Becker J, Dwyer TJ, Meints GA. Single-Base Lesions and Mismatches Alter the Backbone Conformational Dynamics in DNA. Biochemistry 2021; 60:873-885. [PMID: 33689312 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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DNA damage has been implicated in numerous human diseases, particularly cancer, and the aging process. Single-base lesions and mismatches in DNA can be cytotoxic or mutagenic and are recognized by a DNA glycosylase during the process of base excision repair. Altered local dynamics and conformational properties in damaged DNAs have previously been suggested to assist in recognition and specificity. Herein, we use solution nuclear magnetic resonance to quantify changes in BI-BII backbone conformational dynamics due to the presence of single-base lesions in DNA, including uracil, dihydrouracil, 1,N6-ethenoadenine, and T:G mismatches. Stepwise changes to the %BII and ΔG of the BI-BII dynamic equilibrium compared to those of unmodified sequences were observed. Additionally, the equilibrium skews toward endothermicity for the phosphates nearest the lesion/mismatched base pair. Finally, the phosphates with the greatest alterations correlate with those most relevant to the repair of enzyme binding. All of these results suggest local conformational rearrangement of the DNA backbone may play a role in lesion recognition by repair enzymes.
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- M N Westwood
- Department of Chemistry, Missouri State University, 901 South National Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65897, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri State University, 901 South National Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65897, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri State University, 901 South National Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65897, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri State University, 901 South National Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65897, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of San Diego, San Diego, California 92110, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri State University, 901 South National Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65897, United States
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Reading Targeted DNA Damage in the Active Demethylation Pathway: Role of Accessory Domains of Eukaryotic AP Endonucleases and Thymine-DNA Glycosylases. J Mol Biol 2020:S0022-2836(19)30720-X. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Revised: 11/24/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Nelson SR, Kathe SD, Hilzinger TS, Averill AM, Warshaw DM, Wallace SS, Lee AJ. Single molecule glycosylase studies with engineered 8-oxoguanine DNA damage sites show functional defects of a MUTYH polyposis variant. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:3058-3071. [PMID: 30698731 PMCID: PMC6451117 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Revised: 01/03/2019] [Accepted: 01/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Proper repair of oxidatively damaged DNA bases is essential to maintain genome stability. 8-Oxoguanine (7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine, 8-oxoG) is a dangerous DNA lesion because it can mispair with adenine (A) during replication resulting in guanine to thymine transversion mutations. MUTYH DNA glycosylase is responsible for recognizing and removing the adenine from 8-oxoG:adenine (8-oxoG:A) sites. Biallelic mutations in the MUTYH gene predispose individuals to MUTYH-associated polyposis (MAP), and the most commonly observed mutation in some MAP populations is Y165C. Tyr165 is a ‘wedge’ residue that intercalates into the DNA duplex in the lesion bound state. Here, we utilize single molecule fluorescence microscopy to visualize the real-time search behavior of Escherichia coli and Mus musculus MUTYH WT and wedge variant orthologs on DNA tightropes that contain 8-oxoG:A, 8-oxoG:cytosine, or apurinic product analog sites. We observe that MUTYH WT is able to efficiently find 8-oxoG:A damage and form highly stable bound complexes. In contrast, MUTYH Y150C shows decreased binding lifetimes on undamaged DNA and fails to form a stable lesion recognition complex at damage sites. These findings suggest that MUTYH does not rely upon the wedge residue for damage site recognition, but this residue stabilizes the lesion recognition complex.
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- Shane R Nelson
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Robert Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Robert Larner College of Medicine and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Robert Larner College of Medicine and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Robert Larner College of Medicine and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Robert Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Robert Larner College of Medicine and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Robert Larner College of Medicine and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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Endutkin AV, Zharkov DO. Critical Sites of DNA Backbone Integrity for Damaged Base Removal by Formamidopyrimidine-DNA Glycosylase. Biochemistry 2019; 58:2740-2749. [PMID: 31120733 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
DNA glycosylases, the enzymes that initiate base excision DNA repair, recognize damaged bases through a series of precisely orchestrated movements. Most glycosylases sharply kink the DNA axis at the lesion site and extrude the target base from the DNA double helix into the enzyme's active site. Little attention has been paid so far to the role of the physical continuity of the DNA backbone in allowing the required conformational distortion. Here, we analyze base excision by formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase (Fpg) from substrates keeping all phosphates but containing a nick within three nucleotides of the lesion in either DNA strand. Four phosphoester linkages at the damaged nucleotide and two nucleotides 3' to it were essential for Fpg activity, while the breakage of the others, even at the same critical phosphates, had no effect or even stimulated the reaction. Reduction of the likelihood of hydrogen bonding at the nicks by using dideoxynucleotides as their 3'-terminal groups was more detrimental for the activity. All phosphoester bonds in the complementary strand were dispensable for base excision, but nicks close to the orphaned nucleotide caused early termination of damaged strand cleavage. Elastic network analysis of Fpg-DNA structures showed that the vibrational motions of the critical phosphates are strongly correlated, in part due to the presence of the protein. Overall, our results suggest that mechanical forces propagating along the DNA backbone play a critical role in the correct conformational distortion of DNA by Fpg and possibly by other target base-everting DNA glycosylases.
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- Anton V Endutkin
- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine , 8 Lavrentieva Avenue , Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia.,Novosibirsk State University , 2 Pirogova Street , Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine , 8 Lavrentieva Avenue , Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia.,Novosibirsk State University , 2 Pirogova Street , Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia
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Kladova OA, Grin IR, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA, Zharkov DO. Conformational Dynamics of Damage Processing by Human DNA Glycosylase NEIL1. J Mol Biol 2019; 431:1098-1112. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.01.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Revised: 01/23/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Endutkin AV, Yudkina AV, Sidorenko VS, Zharkov DO. Transient protein-protein complexes in base excision repair. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2018; 37:4407-4418. [PMID: 30488779 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2018.1553741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Transient protein-protein complexes are of great importance for organizing multiple enzymatic reactions into productive reaction pathways. Base excision repair (BER), a process of critical importance for maintaining genome stability against a plethora of DNA-damaging factors, involves several enzymes, including DNA glycosylases, AP endonucleases, DNA polymerases, DNA ligases and accessory proteins acting sequentially on the same damaged site in DNA. Rather than being assembled into one stable multisubunit complex, these enzymes pass the repair intermediates between them in a highly coordinated manner. In this review, we discuss the nature and the role of transient complexes arising during BER as deduced from structural and kinetic data. Almost all of the transient complexes are DNA-mediated, although some may also exist in solution and strengthen under specific conditions. The best-studied example, the interactions between DNA glycosylases and AP endonucleases, is discussed in more detail to provide a framework for distinguishing between stable and transient complexes based on the kinetic data. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Anton V Endutkin
- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine , Novosibirsk , Russia.,Novosibirsk State University , Novosibirsk , Russia.,Podalirius Ltd. , Novosibirsk , Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine , Novosibirsk , Russia.,Novosibirsk State University , Novosibirsk , Russia
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University , Stony Brook , NY , USA
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine , Novosibirsk , Russia.,Novosibirsk State University , Novosibirsk , Russia
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Lukina MV, Koval VV, Lomzov AA, Zharkov DO, Fedorova OS. Global DNA dynamics of 8-oxoguanine repair by human OGG1 revealed by stopped-flow kinetics and molecular dynamics simulation. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2018; 13:1954-1966. [PMID: 28770925 DOI: 10.1039/c7mb00343a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The toxic action of different endogenous and exogenous agents leads to damage in genomic DNA. 8-Oxoguanine is one of the most often generated and highly mutagenic oxidative forms of damage in DNA. Normally, in human cells it is promptly removed by 8-oxoguanine-DNA-glycosylase hOGG1, the key DNA-repair enzyme. An association between the accumulation of oxidized guanine and an increased risk of harmful processes in organisms was already found. However, the detailed mechanism of damaged base recognition and removal is still unclear. To clarify the role of active site amino acids in the damaged base coordination and to reveal the elementary steps in the overall enzymatic process we investigated hOGG1 mutant forms with substituted amino acid residues in the enzyme base-binding pocket. Replacing the functional groups of the enzyme active site allowed us to change the rates of the individual steps of the enzymatic reaction. To gain further insight into the mechanism of hOGG1 catalysis a detailed pre-steady state kinetic study of this enzymatic process was carried out using the stopped-flow approach. The changes in the DNA structure after mixing with enzymes were followed by recording the FRET signal using Cy3/Cy5 labels in DNA substrates in the time range from milliseconds to hundreds of seconds. DNA duplexes containing non-damaged DNA, 8-oxoG, or an AP-site or its unreactive synthetic analogue were used as DNA-substrates. The kinetic parameters of DNA binding and damage processing were obtained for the mutant forms and for WT hOGG1. The analyses of fluorescence traces provided information about the DNA dynamics during damage recognition and removal. The kinetic study for the mutant forms revealed that all introduced substitutions reduced the efficiency of the hOGG1 activity; however, they played pivotal roles at certain elementary stages identified during the study. Taken together, our results gave the opportunity to restore the role of substituted amino acids and main "damaged base-amino acid" contacts, which provide an important link in the understanding the mechanism of the DNA repair process catalyzed by hOGG1.
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- M V Lukina
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyev Ave., 8, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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Lee AJ, Wallace SS. Hide and seek: How do DNA glycosylases locate oxidatively damaged DNA bases amidst a sea of undamaged bases? Free Radic Biol Med 2017; 107:170-178. [PMID: 27865982 PMCID: PMC5433924 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.11.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2016] [Revised: 11/11/2016] [Accepted: 11/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The first step of the base excision repair (BER) pathway responsible for removing oxidative DNA damage utilizes DNA glycosylases to find and remove the damaged DNA base. How glycosylases find the damaged base amidst a sea of undamaged bases has long been a question in the BER field. Single molecule total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (SM TIRFM) experiments have allowed for an exciting look into this search mechanism and have found that DNA glycosylases scan along the DNA backbone in a bidirectional and random fashion. By comparing the search behavior of bacterial glycosylases from different structural families and with varying substrate specificities, it was found that glycosylases search for damage by periodically inserting a wedge residue into the DNA stack as they redundantly search tracks of DNA that are 450-600bp in length. These studies open up a wealth of possibilities for further study in real time of the interactions of DNA glycosylases and other BER enzymes with various DNA substrates.
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- Andrea J Lee
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, The University of Vermont, 95 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, The University of Vermont, 95 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
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Talhaoui I, Matkarimov BT, Tchenio T, Zharkov DO, Saparbaev MK. Aberrant base excision repair pathway of oxidatively damaged DNA: Implications for degenerative diseases. Free Radic Biol Med 2017; 107:266-277. [PMID: 27890638 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.11.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Revised: 11/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/23/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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In cellular organisms composition of DNA is constrained to only four nucleobases A, G, T and C, except for minor DNA base modifications such as methylation which serves for defence against foreign DNA or gene expression regulation. Interestingly, this severe evolutionary constraint among other things demands DNA repair systems to discriminate between regular and modified bases. DNA glycosylases specifically recognize and excise damaged bases among vast majority of regular bases in the base excision repair (BER) pathway. However, the mismatched base pairs in DNA can occur from a spontaneous conversion of 5-methylcytosine to thymine and DNA polymerase errors during replication. To counteract these mutagenic threats to genome stability, cells evolved special DNA repair systems that target the non-damaged DNA strand in a duplex to remove mismatched regular DNA bases. Mismatch-specific adenine- and thymine-DNA glycosylases (MutY/MUTYH and TDG/MBD4, respectively) initiated BER and mismatch repair (MMR) pathways can recognize and remove normal DNA bases in mismatched DNA duplexes. Importantly, in DNA repair deficient cells bacterial MutY, human TDG and mammalian MMR can act in the aberrant manner: MutY and TDG removes adenine and thymine opposite misincorporated 8-oxoguanine and damaged adenine, respectively, whereas MMR removes thymine opposite to O6-methylguanine. These unusual activities lead either to mutations or futile DNA repair, thus indicating that the DNA repair pathways which target non-damaged DNA strand can act in aberrant manner and introduce genome instability in the presence of unrepaired DNA lesions. Evidences accumulated showing that in addition to the accumulation of oxidatively damaged DNA in cells, the aberrant DNA repair can also contribute to cancer, brain disorders and premature senescence. For example, the aberrant BER and MMR pathways for oxidized guanine residues can lead to trinucleotide expansion that underlies Huntington's disease, a severe hereditary neurodegenerative syndrome. This review summarises the present knowledge about the aberrant DNA repair pathways for oxidized base modifications and their possible role in age-related diseases.
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- Ibtissam Talhaoui
- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- National laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan
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- LBPA, UMR8113 ENSC - CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France.
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Woodrick J, Gupta S, Camacho S, Parvathaneni S, Choudhury S, Cheema A, Bai Y, Khatkar P, Erkizan HV, Sami F, Su Y, Schärer OD, Sharma S, Roy R. A new sub-pathway of long-patch base excision repair involving 5' gap formation. EMBO J 2017; 36:1605-1622. [PMID: 28373211 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201694920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2016] [Revised: 02/21/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Base excision repair (BER) is one of the most frequently used cellular DNA repair mechanisms and modulates many human pathophysiological conditions related to DNA damage. Through live cell and in vitro reconstitution experiments, we have discovered a major sub-pathway of conventional long-patch BER that involves formation of a 9-nucleotide gap 5' to the lesion. This new sub-pathway is mediated by RECQ1 DNA helicase and ERCC1-XPF endonuclease in cooperation with PARP1 poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase and RPA The novel gap formation step is employed during repair of a variety of DNA lesions, including oxidative and alkylation damage. Moreover, RECQ1 regulates PARP1 auto-(ADP-ribosyl)ation and the choice between long-patch and single-nucleotide BER, thereby modulating cellular sensitivity to DNA damage. Based on these results, we propose a revised model of long-patch BER and a new key regulation point for pathway choice in BER.
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- Jordan Woodrick
- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences & Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences & Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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Repair of oxidatively induced DNA damage by DNA glycosylases: Mechanisms of action, substrate specificities and excision kinetics. MUTATION RESEARCH-REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH 2017; 771:99-127. [PMID: 28342455 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2017.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Endogenous and exogenous reactive species cause oxidatively induced DNA damage in living organisms by a variety of mechanisms. As a result, a plethora of mutagenic and/or cytotoxic products are formed in cellular DNA. This type of DNA damage is repaired by base excision repair, although nucleotide excision repair also plays a limited role. DNA glycosylases remove modified DNA bases from DNA by hydrolyzing the glycosidic bond leaving behind an apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site. Some of them also possess an accompanying AP-lyase activity that cleaves the sugar-phosphate chain of DNA. Since the first discovery of a DNA glycosylase, many studies have elucidated the mechanisms of action, substrate specificities and excision kinetics of these enzymes present in all living organisms. For this purpose, most studies used single- or double-stranded oligodeoxynucleotides with a single DNA lesion embedded at a defined position. High-molecular weight DNA with multiple base lesions has been used in other studies with the advantage of the simultaneous investigation of many DNA base lesions as substrates. Differences between the substrate specificities and excision kinetics of DNA glycosylases have been found when these two different substrates were used. Some DNA glycosylases possess varying substrate specificities for either purine-derived lesions or pyrimidine-derived lesions, whereas others exhibit cross-activity for both types of lesions. Laboratory animals with knockouts of the genes of DNA glycosylases have also been used to provide unequivocal evidence for the substrates, which had previously been found in in vitro studies, to be the actual substrates in vivo as well. On the basis of the knowledge gained from the past studies, efforts are being made to discover small molecule inhibitors of DNA glycosylases that may be used as potential drugs in cancer therapy.
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Mechetin GV, Dyatlova EA, Sinyakov AN, Ryabinin VA, Vorobjev PE, Zharkov DO. Correlated target search by uracil-DNA glycosylase in the presence of bulky adducts and DNA-binding ligands. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s106816201606008x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Buzas DM. Emerging links between iron-sulfur clusters and 5-methylcytosine base excision repair in plants. Genes Genet Syst 2016; 91:51-62. [PMID: 27592684 DOI: 10.1266/ggs.16-00015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are ancient cofactors present in all kingdoms of life. Both the Fe-S cluster assembly machineries and target apoproteins are distributed across different subcellular compartments. The essential function of Fe-S clusters in nuclear enzymes is particularly difficult to study. The base excision repair (BER) pathway guards the integrity of DNA; enzymes from the DEMETER family of DNA glycosylases in plants are Fe-S cluster-dependent and extend the BER repertowere to excision of 5-methylcytosine (5mC). Recent studies in plants genetically link the majority of proteins from the cytosolic Fe-S cluster biogenesis (CIA) pathway with 5mC BER and DNA repair. This link can now be further explored. First, it opens new possibilities for understanding how Fe-S clusters participate in 5mC BER and related processes. I describe DNA-mediated charge transfer, an Fe-S cluster-based mechanism for locating base lesions with high efficiency, which is used by bacterial DNA glycosylases encoding Fe-S cluster binding domains that are also conserved in the DEMETER family. Second, because detailed analysis of the mutant phenotype of CIA proteins relating to 5mC BER revealed that they formed two groups, we may also gain new insights into both the composition of the Fe-S assembly pathway and the biological contexts of Fe-S proteins.
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- Diana Mihaela Buzas
- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba
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Lee AJ, Wallace SS. Visualizing the Search for Radiation-damaged DNA Bases in Real Time. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2016; 128:126-133. [PMID: 27818579 DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2016.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The Base Excision Repair (BER) pathway removes the vast majority of damages produced by ionizing radiation, including the plethora of radiation-damaged purines and pyrimidines. The first enzymes in the BER pathway are DNA glycosylases, which are responsible for finding and removing the damaged base. Although much is known about the biochemistry of DNA glycosylases, how these enzymes locate their specific damage substrates among an excess of undamaged bases has long remained a mystery. Here we describe the use of single molecule fluorescence to observe the bacterial DNA glycosylases, Nth, Fpg and Nei, scanning along undamaged and damaged DNA. We show that all three enzymes randomly diffuse on the DNA molecule and employ a wedge residue to search for and locate damage. The search behavior of the Escherichia coli DNA glycosylases likely provides a paradigm for their homologous mammalian counterparts.
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- Andrea J Lee
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, The University of Vermont, 95 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, Vermont, 05405, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, The University of Vermont, 95 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, Vermont, 05405, USA
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Li H, Endutkin AV, Bergonzo C, Campbell AJ, de los Santos C, Grollman A, Zharkov DO, Simmerling C. A dynamic checkpoint in oxidative lesion discrimination by formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 44:683-94. [PMID: 26553802 PMCID: PMC4737139 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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In contrast to proteins recognizing small-molecule ligands, DNA-dependent enzymes cannot rely solely on interactions in the substrate-binding centre to achieve their exquisite specificity. It is widely believed that substrate recognition by such enzymes involves a series of conformational changes in the enzyme-DNA complex with sequential gates favoring cognate DNA and rejecting nonsubstrates. However, direct evidence for such mechanism is limited to a few systems. We report that discrimination between the oxidative DNA lesion, 8-oxoguanine (oxoG) and its normal counterpart, guanine, by the repair enzyme, formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase (Fpg), likely involves multiple gates. Fpg uses an aromatic wedge to open the Watson-Crick base pair and everts the lesion into its active site. We used molecular dynamics simulations to explore the eversion free energy landscapes of oxoG and G by Fpg, focusing on structural and energetic details of oxoG recognition. The resulting energy profiles, supported by biochemical analysis of site-directed mutants disturbing the interactions along the proposed path, show that Fpg selectively facilitates eversion of oxoG by stabilizing several intermediate states, helping the rapidly sliding enzyme avoid full extrusion of every encountered base for interrogation. Lesion recognition through multiple gating intermediates may be a common theme in DNA repair enzymes.
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- Haoquan Li
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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Mechetin GV, Zharkov DO. Mechanisms of diffusional search for specific targets by DNA-dependent proteins. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2015; 79:496-505. [PMID: 25100007 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297914060029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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To perform their functions, many DNA-dependent proteins have to quickly locate specific targets against the vast excess of nonspecific DNA. Although this problem was first formulated over 40 years ago, the mechanism of such search remains one of the unsolved fundamental problems in the field of protein-DNA interactions. Several complementary mechanisms have been suggested: sliding, based on one-dimensional random diffusion along the DNA contour; hopping, in which the protein "jumps" between the closely located DNA fragments; macroscopic association-dissociation of the protein-DNA complex; and intersegmental transfer. This review covers the modern state of the problem of target DNA search, theoretical descriptions, and methods of research at the macroscopic (molecule ensembles) and microscopic (individual molecules) levels. Almost all studied DNA-dependent proteins search for specific targets by combined three-dimensional diffusion and one-dimensional diffusion along the DNA contour.
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- G V Mechetin
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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This perspective reviews the many dimensions of base excision repair from a 10,000 foot vantage point and provides one person's view on where the field is headed. Enzyme function is considered under the lens of X-ray diffraction and single molecule studies. Base excision repair in chromatin and telomeres, regulation of expression and the role of posttranslational modifications are also discussed in the context of enzyme activities, cellular localization and interacting partners. The specialized roles that base excision repair play in transcriptional activation by active demethylation and targeted oxidation as well as how base excision repair functions in the immune processes of somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination and its possible involvement in retroviral infection are also discussed. Finally the complexities of oxidative damage and its repair and its link to neurodegenerative disorders, as well as the role of base excision repair as a tumor suppressor are examined in the context of damage, repair and aging. By outlining the many base excision repair-related mysteries that have yet to be unraveled, hopefully this perspective will stimulate further interest in the field.
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- Susan S Wallace
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, The University of Vermont, 95 Carrigan Drive, Stafford Hall, Burlington, VT 05405-0084, USA.
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Low-dose formaldehyde delays DNA damage recognition and DNA excision repair in human cells. PLoS One 2014; 9:e94149. [PMID: 24722772 PMCID: PMC3983121 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2013] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE Formaldehyde is still widely employed as a universal crosslinking agent, preservative and disinfectant, despite its proven carcinogenicity in occupationally exposed workers. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to understand the possible impact of low-dose formaldehyde exposures in the general population. Due to the concomitant occurrence of multiple indoor and outdoor toxicants, we tested how formaldehyde, at micromolar concentrations, interferes with general DNA damage recognition and excision processes that remove some of the most frequently inflicted DNA lesions. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The overall mobility of the DNA damage sensors UV-DDB (ultraviolet-damaged DNA-binding) and XPC (xeroderma pigmentosum group C) was analyzed by assessing real-time protein dynamics in the nucleus of cultured human cells exposed to non-cytotoxic (<100 μM) formaldehyde concentrations. The DNA lesion-specific recruitment of these damage sensors was tested by monitoring their accumulation at local irradiation spots. DNA repair activity was determined in host-cell reactivation assays and, more directly, by measuring the excision of DNA lesions from chromosomes. Taken together, these assays demonstrated that formaldehyde obstructs the rapid nuclear trafficking of DNA damage sensors and, consequently, slows down their relocation to DNA damage sites thus delaying the excision repair of target lesions. A concentration-dependent effect relationship established a threshold concentration of as low as 25 micromolar for the inhibition of DNA excision repair. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE A main implication of the retarded repair activity is that low-dose formaldehyde may exert an adjuvant role in carcinogenesis by impeding the excision of multiple mutagenic base lesions. In view of this generally disruptive effect on DNA repair, we propose that formaldehyde exposures in the general population should be further decreased to help reducing cancer risks.
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Graifer D, Malygin A, Zharkov DO, Karpova G. Eukaryotic ribosomal protein S3: A constituent of translational machinery and an extraribosomal player in various cellular processes. Biochimie 2014; 99:8-18. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2013.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2013] [Accepted: 11/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Lee AJ, Warshaw DM, Wallace SS. Insights into the glycosylase search for damage from single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. DNA Repair (Amst) 2014; 20:23-31. [PMID: 24560296 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2013] [Revised: 12/13/2013] [Accepted: 01/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The first step of base excision repair utilizes glycosylase enzymes to find damage within a genome. A persistent question in the field of DNA repair is how glycosylases interact with DNA to specifically find and excise target damaged bases with high efficiency and specificity. Ensemble studies have indicated that glycosylase enzymes rely upon both sliding and distributive modes of search, but ensemble methods are limited in their ability to directly observe these modes. Here we review insights into glycosylase scanning behavior gathered through single-molecule fluorescence studies of enzyme interactions with DNA and provide a context for these results in relation to ensemble experiments.
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- Andrea J Lee
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, The University of Vermont, 95 Carrigan Drive, Stafford Hall, Burlington, VT 05405-0084, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Vermont, Health Science Research Facility, 149 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405-0075, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, The University of Vermont, 95 Carrigan Drive, Stafford Hall, Burlington, VT 05405-0084, USA.
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Moore SPG, Toomire KJ, Strauss PR. DNA modifications repaired by base excision repair are epigenetic. DNA Repair (Amst) 2013; 12:1152-8. [PMID: 24216087 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2013] [Revised: 10/04/2013] [Accepted: 10/07/2013] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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CREB controls ∼25% of the mammalian transcriptome. Small changes in binding to its consensus (CRE) sequence are likely to be amplified many fold in initiating transcription. Here we show that DNA lesions repaired by the base excision repair (BER) pathway modulate CREB binding to CRE. We generated Kd values by electrophoretic mobility shift assays using purified human CREB and a 39-mer double-stranded oligonucleotide containing modified or wild-type CRE. CRE contains two guanine residues per strand, one in a CpG islet. Alterations in CRE resulted in positive or negative changes in Kd over two orders of magnitude depending on location and modification. Cytosine methylation or oxidation of both guanines greatly diminished binding; a G/U mispair in the CpG context enhanced binding. Intermediates in the BER pathway at one G residue or the other resulted in reduced binding, depending on the specific location, while there was no change in binding when the single G residue outside of the CpG islet was oxidized. CREB recruits other partners after dimers form on DNA. Only UpG increased DNA.CREB dimer formation. Since oxidation is ongoing and conversion of cytosine to uracil occurs spontaneously or at specific times during differentiation and development, we propose that BER substrates are epigenetic and modulate transcription factor recognition/binding.
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- Stephen P G Moore
- Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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Lukina MV, Popov AV, Koval VV, Vorobjev YN, Fedorova OS, Zharkov DO. DNA damage processing by human 8-oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase mutants with the occluded active site. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:28936-47. [PMID: 23955443 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.487322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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8-Oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase (OGG1) removes premutagenic lesion 8-oxoguanine (8-oxo-G) from DNA and then nicks the nascent abasic (apurinic/apyrimidinic) site by β-elimination. Although the structure of OGG1 bound to damaged DNA is known, the dynamic aspects of 8-oxo-G recognition are not well understood. To comprehend the mechanisms of substrate recognition and processing, we have constructed OGG1 mutants with the active site occluded by replacement of Cys-253, which forms a wall of the base-binding pocket, with bulky leucine or isoleucine. The conformational dynamics of OGG1 mutants were characterized by single-turnover kinetics and stopped-flow kinetics with fluorescent detection. Additionally, the conformational mobility of wild type and the mutant OGG1 substrate complex was assessed using molecular dynamics simulations. Although pocket occlusion distorted the active site and greatly decreased the catalytic activity of OGG1, it did not fully prevent processing of 8-oxo-G and apurinic/apyrimidinic sites. Both mutants were notably stimulated in the presence of free 8-bromoguanine, indicating that this base can bind to the distorted OGG1 and facilitate β-elimination. The results agree with the concept of enzyme plasticity, suggesting that the active site of OGG1 is flexible enough to compensate partially for distortions caused by mutation.
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- Maria V Lukina
- From the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Avenue, Novosibirsk 630090 and
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Córdoba-Cañero D, Roldán-Arjona T, Ariza RR. Using Arabidopsis cell extracts to monitor repair of DNA base damage in vitro. Methods Mol Biol 2013; 920:263-77. [PMID: 22941609 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-998-3_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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Base excision repair (BER) is a major pathway for the removal of endogenous and exogenous DNA damage. This repair mechanism is initiated by DNA glycosylases that excise the altered base, and continues through alternative routes that culminate in DNA resynthesis and ligation. In contrast to the information available for microbes and animals, our knowledge about this important DNA repair pathway in plants is very limited, partially due to a lack of biochemical approaches. Here we describe an in vitro assay to monitor BER in cell-free extracts from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The assay uses labeled DNA substrates containing a single damaged base within a restriction site, and allows detection of fully repaired molecules as well as DNA repair intermediates. The method is easily applied to measure the repair activity of purified proteins and can be successfully used in combination with the extensive array of biological resources available for Arabidopsis.
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- Dolores Córdoba-Cañero
- Department of Genetics, University of Córdoba and Maimónides Institute of Biomedical Research, Córdoba, Spain
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Zepeda AB, Figueroa CA, Calaf GM, Farías JG. Male reproductive system and antioxidants in oxidative stress induced by hypobaric hypoxia. Andrologia 2012; 46:1-8. [PMID: 23127143 DOI: 10.1111/and.12039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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In Chile, due to the intensive activity developed in confining areas of the Andes Mountains ranging in altitude over 4000 asl, there has been an increasing intermittent movement of human resources to high altitude conditions. This unusual condition, defined as hypobaric hypoxia, affects notoriously in any living organism and there shows a series of physiological responses. Studies performed in rats under chronic hypobaric hypoxia and intermittent hypobaric hypoxia have registered changes in testicular morphology together with loss of spermatogenic cells in all stages of spermatogenic cycle. Furthermore, recent tests reinforced the existence of an oxidative metabolism in epididymis of rats subjected to hypobaric hypoxia due to the increase in the regulator enzyme expression of reactive oxygen species (ROS), This increase in the production of ROS induced a rise in apoptosis at germinal cell level, leading to a state of hypo-spermatogenesis that may jeopardise masculine fertility. Therefore, the eventual development of oxidative stress in spermatogenic cells and consequently the spermatozoids of workers subjected to high altitude, either chronic or intermittent, turns out to be critical when it poses as an imminent risk to the viability and quality of the reproductive cells of workers subjected to intermittent hypobaric hypoxia.
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- A B Zepeda
- Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Facultad de Ingeniería, Ciencias y Administración, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Facultad de Ingeniería, Ciencias y Administración, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
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- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile.,Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Facultad de Ingeniería, Ciencias y Administración, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
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Kuznetsov NA, Koval VV, Zharkov DO, Fedorova OS. Conformational dynamics of the interaction of Escherichia coli endonuclease VIII with DNA substrates. DNA Repair (Amst) 2012; 11:884-91. [DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2012.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2012] [Revised: 08/22/2012] [Accepted: 08/23/2012] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Ponferrada-Marín MI, Roldán-Arjona T, Ariza RR. Demethylation initiated by ROS1 glycosylase involves random sliding along DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 40:11554-62. [PMID: 23034804 PMCID: PMC3526269 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Active DNA demethylation processes play a critical role in shaping methylation patterns, yet our understanding of the mechanisms involved is still fragmented and incomplete. REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 1 (ROS1) is a prototype member of a family of plant 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylases that initiate active DNA demethylation through a base excision repair pathway. As ROS1 binds DNA non-specifically, we have critically tested the hypothesis that facilitated diffusion along DNA may contribute to target location by the enzyme. We have found that dissociation of ROS1 from DNA is severely restricted when access to both ends is obstructed by tetraloops obstacles. Unblocking any end facilitates protein dissociation, suggesting that random surface sliding is the main route to a specific target site. We also found that removal of the basic N-terminal domain of ROS1 significantly impairs the sliding capacity of the protein. Finally, we show that sliding increases the catalytic efficiency of ROS1 on 5-meC:G pairs, but not on T:G mispairs, thus suggesting that the enzyme achieves recognition and excision of its two substrate bases by different means. A model is proposed to explain how ROS1 finds its potential targets on DNA.
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Jourdan M, Granzhan A, Guillot R, Dumy P, Teulade-Fichou MP. Double threading through DNA: NMR structural study of a bis-naphthalene macrocycle bound to a thymine-thymine mismatch. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 40:5115-28. [PMID: 22362757 PMCID: PMC3367172 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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The macrocyclic bis-naphthalene macrocycle (2,7-BisNP), belonging to the cyclobisintercalator family of DNA ligands, recognizes T–T mismatch sites in duplex DNA with high affinity and selectivity, as evidenced by thermal denaturation experiments and NMR titrations. The binding of this macrocycle to an 11-mer DNA oligonucleotide containing a T–T mismatch was studied using NMR spectroscopy and NMR-restrained molecular modeling. The ligand forms a single type of complex with the DNA, in which one of the naphthalene rings of the ligand occupies the place of one of the mismatched thymines, which is flipped out of the duplex. The second naphthalene unit of the ligand intercalates at the A-T base pair flanking the mismatch site, leading to encapsulation of its thymine residue via double stacking. The polyammonium linking chains of the macrocycle are located in the minor and the major grooves of the oligonucleotide and participate in the stabilization of the complex by formation of hydrogen bonds with the encapsulated thymine base and the mismatched thymine remaining inside the helix. The study highlights the uniqueness of this cyclobisintercalation binding mode and its importance for recognition of DNA lesion sites by small molecules.
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- Muriel Jourdan
- CNRS UMR5250, ICMG FR2607, Département de Chimie Moléculaire, Université Joseph Fourier, 570 rue de la Chimie, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
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Imamura K, Averill A, Wallace SS, Doublié S. Structural characterization of viral ortholog of human DNA glycosylase NEIL1 bound to thymine glycol or 5-hydroxyuracil-containing DNA. J Biol Chem 2011; 287:4288-98. [PMID: 22170059 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.315309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Thymine glycol (Tg) and 5-hydroxyuracil (5-OHU) are common oxidized products of pyrimidines, which are recognized and cleaved by two DNA glycosylases of the base excision repair pathway, endonuclease III (Nth) and endonuclease VIII (Nei). Although there are several structures of Nei enzymes unliganded or bound to an abasic (apurinic or apyrimidinic) site, until now there was no structure of an Nei bound to a DNA lesion. Mimivirus Nei1 (MvNei1) is an ortholog of human NEIL1, which was previously crystallized bound to DNA containing an apurinic site (Imamura, K., Wallace, S. S., and Doublié, S. (2009) J. Biol. Chem. 284, 26174-26183). Here, we present two crystal structures of MvNei1 bound to two oxidized pyrimidines, Tg and 5-OHU. Both lesions are flipped out from the DNA helix. Tg is in the anti conformation, whereas 5-OHU adopts both anti and syn conformations in the glycosylase active site. Only two protein side chains (Glu-6 and Tyr-253) are within hydrogen-bonding contact with either damaged base, and mutating these residues did not markedly affect the glycosylase activity. This finding suggests that lesion recognition by Nei occurs before the damaged base flips into the glycosylase active site.
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- Kayo Imamura
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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Córdoba-Cañero D, Roldán-Arjona T, Ariza RR. Arabidopsis ARP endonuclease functions in a branched base excision DNA repair pathway completed by LIG1. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 68:693-702. [PMID: 21781197 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2011.04720.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Base excision repair (BER) is an essential cellular defence mechanism against DNA damage, but it is poorly understood in plants. We used an assay that monitors repair of damaged bases and abasic (apurinic/apyrimidinic, AP) sites in Arabidopsis to characterize post-excision events during plant BER. We found that Apurinic endonuclease-redox protein (ARP) is the major AP endonuclease activity in Arabidopsis cell extracts, and is required for AP incision during uracil BER in vitro. Mutant plants that are deficient in ARP grow normally but are hypersensitive to 5-fluorouracil, a compound that favours mis-incorporation of uracil into DNA. We also found that, after AP incision, the choice between single-nucleotide or long-patch DNA synthesis (SN- or LP-BER) is influenced by the 5' end of the repair gap. When the 5' end is blocked and not amenable to β-elimination, the SN sub-pathway is abrogated, and repair is accomplished through LP-BER only. Finally, we provide evidence that Arabidopsis DNA ligase I (LIG1) is required for both SN- and LP-BER. lig1 RNAi-silenced lines show very reduced uracil BER, and anti-LIG1 antibody abolishes repair in wild-type cell extracts. In contrast, knockout lig4(-/-) mutants exhibit normal BER and nick ligation levels. Our results suggest that a branched BER pathway completed by a member of the DNA ligase I family may be an ancient feature in eukaryotic species.
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Mechetin GV, Zharkov DO. Mechanism of translocation of uracil-DNA glycosylase from Escherichia coli between distributed lesions. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2011; 414:425-30. [PMID: 21971549 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.09.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2011] [Accepted: 09/21/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Uracil-DNA glycosylase (Ung) is a DNA repair enzyme that excises uracil bases from DNA, where they appear through deamination of cytosine or incorporation from a cellular dUTP pool. DNA repair enzymes often use one-dimensional diffusion along DNA to accelerate target search; however, this mechanism remains poorly investigated mechanistically. We used oligonucleotide substrates containing two uracil residues in defined positions to characterize one-dimensional search of DNA by Escherichia coli Ung. Mg(2+) ions suppressed the search in double-stranded DNA to a higher extent than K(+) likely due to tight binding of Mg(2+) to DNA phosphates. Ung was able to efficiently overcome short single-stranded gaps within double-stranded DNA. Varying the distance between the lesions and fitting the data to a theoretical model of DNA random walk, we estimated the characteristic one-dimensional search distance of ~100 nucleotides and translocation rate constant of ~2×10(6) s(-1).
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- Grigory V Mechetin
- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Mannuss A, Trapp O, Puchta H. Gene regulation in response to DNA damage. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2011; 1819:154-65. [PMID: 21867786 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2011] [Revised: 07/25/2011] [Accepted: 08/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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To deal with different kinds of DNA damages, there are a number of repair pathways that must be carefully orchestrated to guarantee genomic stability. Many proteins that play a role in DNA repair are involved in multiple pathways and need to be tightly regulated to conduct the functions required for efficient repair of different DNA damage types, such as double strand breaks or DNA crosslinks caused by radiation or genotoxins. While most of the factors involved in DNA repair are conserved throughout the different kingdoms, recent results have shown that the regulation of their expression is variable between different organisms. In the following paper, we give an overview of what is currently known about regulating factors and gene expression in response to DNA damage and put this knowledge in context with the different DNA repair pathways in plants. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Plant gene regulation in response to abiotic stress.
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- Anja Mannuss
- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Clement FC, Kaczmarek N, Mathieu N, Tomas M, Leitenstorfer A, Ferrando-May E, Naegeli H. Dissection of the xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein function by site-directed mutagenesis. Antioxid Redox Signal 2011; 14:2479-90. [PMID: 20649465 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2010.3399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) protein is a sensor of helix-distorting DNA lesions, the function of which is to trigger the global genome repair (GGR) pathway. Previous studies demonstrated that XPC protein operates by detecting the single-stranded character of non-hydrogen-bonded bases opposing lesion sites. This mode of action is supported by structural analyses of the yeast Rad4 homologue that identified critical side chains making close contacts with a pair of extrahelical nucleotides. Here, alanine substitutions of the respective conserved residues (N754, F756, F797, F799) in human XPC were tested for DNA-binding activity, accumulation in tracks and foci of DNA lesions, nuclear protein mobility, and the induction of downstream GGR reactions. This study discloses a dynamic interplay between XPC protein and DNA, whereby the association with one displaced nucleotide in the undamaged strand mediates the initial encounter with lesion sites. The additional flipping-out of an adjacent nucleotide is necessary to hand over the damaged site to the next GGR player. Surprisingly, this mutagenesis analysis also reveals that the rapid intranuclear trafficking of XPC protein depends on constitutive interactions with native DNA, implying that the search for base damage takes place in living cells by a facilitated diffusion process.
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- Flurina C Clement
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, Winterthurerstrasse 260, Zürich, Switzerland
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Dunn AR, Kad NM, Nelson SR, Warshaw DM, Wallace SS. Single Qdot-labeled glycosylase molecules use a wedge amino acid to probe for lesions while scanning along DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:7487-98. [PMID: 21666255 PMCID: PMC3177204 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Within the base excision repair (BER) pathway, the DNA N-glycosylases are responsible for locating and removing the majority of oxidative base damages. Endonuclease III (Nth), formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase (Fpg) and endonuclease VIII (Nei) are members of two glycosylase families: the helix–hairpin–helix (HhH) superfamily and the Fpg/Nei family. The search mechanisms employed by these two families of glycosylases were examined using a single molecule assay to image quantum dot (Qdot)-labeled glycosylases interacting with YOYO-1 stained λ-DNA molecules suspended between 5 µm silica beads. The HhH and Fpg/Nei families were found to have a similar diffusive search mechanism described as a continuum of motion, in keeping with rotational diffusion along the DNA molecule ranging from slow, sub-diffusive to faster, unrestricted diffusion. The search mechanism for an Fpg variant, F111A, lacking a phenylalanine wedge residue no longer displayed slow, sub-diffusive motion compared to wild type, suggesting that Fpg base interrogation may be accomplished by Phe111 insertion.
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- Andrew R Dunn
- The Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA, Koval VV, Knorre DG. Conformational dynamics and pre-steady-state kinetics of DNA glycosylases. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2011; 75:1225-39. [PMID: 21166640 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297910100044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Results of investigations of E. coli DNA glycosylases using pre-steady-state kinetics are considered. Special attention is given to the connection of conformational changes in the interacting biomolecules with kinetic mechanisms of the enzymatic processes.
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- O S Fedorova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia.
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Kirpota OO, Endutkin AV, Ponomarenko MP, Ponomarenko PM, Zharkov DO, Nevinsky GA. Thermodynamic and kinetic basis for recognition and repair of 8-oxoguanine in DNA by human 8-oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:4836-50. [PMID: 21343179 PMCID: PMC3113562 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We have used a stepwise increase in ligand complexity approach to estimate the relative contributions of the nucleotide units of DNA containing 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (oxoG) to its total affinity for human 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (OGG1) and construct thermodynamic models of the enzyme interaction with cognate and non-cognate DNA. Non-specific OGG1 interactions with 10–13 nt pairs within its DNA-binding cleft provides approximately 5 orders of magnitude of its affinity for DNA (ΔG° approximately −6.7 kcal/mol). The relative contribution of the oxoG unit of DNA (ΔG° approximately −3.3 kcal/mol) together with other specific interactions (ΔG° approximately −0.7 kcal/mol) provide approximately 3 orders of magnitude of the affinity. Formation of the Michaelis complex of OGG1 with the cognate DNA cannot account for the major part of the enzyme specificity, which lies in the kcat term instead; the rate increases by 6–7 orders of magnitude for cognate DNA as compared with non-cognate one. The kcat values for substrates of different sequences correlate with the DNA twist, while the KM values correlate with ΔG° of the DNA fragments surrounding the lesion (position from −6 to +6). The functions for predicting the KM and kcat values for different sequences containing oxoG were found.
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- Oleg O Kirpota
- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Avenue, Department of Molecular Biology, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Street and SB RAS Institute of Cytology and Genetics, 10 Lavrentieva Avenue, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Friedman JI, Stivers JT. Detection of damaged DNA bases by DNA glycosylase enzymes. Biochemistry 2010; 49:4957-67. [PMID: 20469926 DOI: 10.1021/bi100593a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A fundamental and shared process in all forms of life is the use of DNA glycosylase enzymes to excise rare damaged bases from genomic DNA. Without such enzymes, the highly ordered primary sequences of genes would rapidly deteriorate. Recent structural and biophysical studies are beginning to reveal a fascinating multistep mechanism for damaged base detection that begins with short-range sliding of the glycosylase along the DNA chain in a distinct conformation we call the search complex (SC). Sliding is frequently punctuated by the formation of a transient "interrogation" complex (IC) where the enzyme extrahelically inspects both normal and damaged bases in an exosite pocket that is distant from the active site. When normal bases are presented in the exosite, the IC rapidly collapses back to the SC, while a damaged base will efficiently partition forward into the active site to form the catalytically competent excision complex (EC). Here we review the unique problems associated with enzymatic detection of rare damaged DNA bases in the genome and emphasize how each complex must have specific dynamic properties that are tuned to optimize the rate and efficiency of damage site location.
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- Joshua I Friedman
- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, WBSB 314, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Kinde-Carson MN, Ferguson C, Oyler NA, Harbison GS, Meints GA. Solid state 2H NMR analysis of furanose ring dynamics in DNA containing uracil. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:3285-93. [PMID: 20151717 DOI: 10.1021/jp9091656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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DNA damage has been implicated in numerous human diseases, particularly cancer, and the aging process. Single-base lesions, such as uracil, in DNA can be cytotoxic or mutagenic and are recognized by a DNA glycosylase during the process of base excision repair. Increased dynamic properties in lesion-containing DNAs have been suggested to assist recognition and specificity. Deuterium solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) has been used to directly observe local dynamics of the furanose ring within a uracil:adenine (U:A) base pair and compared to a normal thymine:adenine (T:A) base pair. Quadrupole echo lineshapes, <T(1Z)>, and <T(2e)> relaxation data were collected, and computer modeling was performed. The results indicate that the relaxation times are identical within the experimental error, the solid lineshapes are essentially indistinguishable above the noise level, and our lineshapes are best fit with a model that does not have significant local motions. Therefore, U:A base pair furanose rings appear to have essentially identical dynamic properties as a normal T:A base pair, and the local dynamics of the furanose ring are unlikely to be the sole arbiter for uracil recognition and specificity in U:A base pairs.
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Ponferrada-Marín MI, Martínez-Macías MI, Morales-Ruiz T, Roldán-Arjona T, Ariza RR. Methylation-independent DNA binding modulates specificity of Repressor of Silencing 1 (ROS1) and facilitates demethylation in long substrates. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:23032-9. [PMID: 20489198 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.124578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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DNA cytosine methylation is an epigenetic mark that promotes gene silencing and performs critical roles during reproduction and development in both plants and animals. The genomic distribution of DNA methylation is the dynamic outcome of opposing methylation and demethylation processes. In plants, active demethylation occurs through a base excision repair pathway initiated by 5-methycytosine (5-meC) DNA glycosylases of the REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 1 (ROS1)/DEMETER (DME) family. To gain insight into the mechanism by which Arabidopsis ROS1 recognizes and excises 5-meC, we have identified those protein regions that are required for efficient DNA binding and catalysis. We have found that a short N-terminal lysine-rich domain conserved in members of the ROS1/DME family mediates strong methylation-independent binding of ROS1 to DNA and is required for efficient activity on 5-meC.G, but not for T.G processing. Removal of this domain does not significantly affect 5-meC excision from short molecules, but strongly decreases ROS1 activity on long DNA substrates. This region is not required for product binding and is not involved in the distributive behavior of the enzyme on substrates containing multiple 5-meC residues. Altogether, our results suggest that methylation-independent DNA binding allows ROS1 to perform a highly redundant search for efficient excision of a nondamaged, correctly paired base such as 5-meC in long stretches of DNA. These findings may have implications for understanding the evolution of structure and target specificity in DNA glycosylases.
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Hedglin M, O’Brien PJ. Hopping enables a DNA repair glycosylase to search both strands and bypass a bound protein. ACS Chem Biol 2010; 5:427-36. [PMID: 20201599 DOI: 10.1021/cb1000185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Spontaneous DNA damage occurs throughout the genome, requiring that DNA repair enzymes search each nucleotide every cell cycle. This search is postulated to be more efficient if the enzyme can diffuse along the DNA, but our understanding of this process is incomplete. A key distinction between mechanisms of diffusion is whether the protein maintains continuous contact (sliding) or whether it undergoes microscopic dissociation (hopping). We describe a simple chemical assay to detect the ability of a DNA modifying enzyme to hop and have applied it to human alkyladenine DNA glycosylase (AAG), a monomeric enzyme that initiates repair of alkylated and deaminated purine bases. Our results indicate that AAG uses hopping to effectively search both strands of a DNA duplex in a single binding encounter. This raised the possibility that AAG might be capable of circumnavigating blocks such as tightly bound proteins. We tested this hypothesis by binding an EcoRI endonuclease dimer between two sites of DNA damage and measuring the ability of AAG to act at both damaged sites in a single binding encounter. Remarkably, AAG bypasses this roadblock in approximately 50% of the binding events. We infer that AAG makes significant excursions from the surface of the DNA, allowing reorientation between strands and the bypass of a bound protein. This has important biological implications for the search for DNA damage because eukaryotic DNA is replete with proteins and only transiently accessible.
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- Chemical Biology Program
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5606
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Koval VV, Kuznetsov NA, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev MK, Fedorova OS. Real-time studies of conformational dynamics of the repair enzyme E. coli formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase and its DNA complexes during catalytic cycle. Mutat Res 2010; 685:3-10. [PMID: 19751748 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2009.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2009] [Accepted: 08/20/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Fpg protein from Escherichia coli belongs to the class of DNA glycosylases/abasic site lyases excising several oxidatively damaged purines in the base excision repair pathway. In this review, we summarize the results of our studies of Fpg protein from E. coli, elucidating the intrinsic mechanism of recognition and excision of damaged bases in DNA.
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- Vladimir V Koval
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyev Ave. 8, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Zharkov DO, Mechetin GV, Nevinsky GA. Uracil-DNA glycosylase: Structural, thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of lesion search and recognition. Mutat Res 2010; 685:11-20. [PMID: 19909758 PMCID: PMC3000906 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2009.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2009] [Revised: 10/24/2009] [Accepted: 10/29/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Uracil appears in DNA as a result of cytosine deamination and by incorporation from the dUTP pool. As potentially mutagenic and deleterious for cell regulation, uracil must be removed from DNA. The major pathway of its repair is initiated by uracil-DNA glycosylases (UNG), ubiquitously found enzymes that hydrolyze the N-glycosidic bond of deoxyuridine in DNA. This review describes the current understanding of the mechanism of uracil search and recognition by UNG. The structure of UNG proteins from several species has been solved, revealing a specific uracil-binding pocket located in a DNA-binding groove. DNA in the complex with UNG is highly distorted to allow the extrahelical recognition of uracil. Thermodynamic studies suggest that UNG binds with appreciable affinity to any DNA, mainly due to the interactions with the charged backbone. The increase in the affinity for damaged DNA is insufficient to account for the exquisite specificity of UNG for uracil. This specificity is likely to result from multistep lesion recognition process, in which normal bases are rejected at one or several pre-excision stages of enzyme-substrate complex isomerization, and only uracil can proceed to enter the active site in a catalytically competent conformation. Search for the lesion by UNG involves random sliding along DNA alternating with dissociation-association events and partial eversion of undamaged bases for initial sampling.
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- Dmitry O. Zharkov
- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Kuznetsov NA, Zharkov DO, Koval VV, Buckle M, Fedorova OS. Reversible Chemical Step and Rate-Limiting Enzyme Regeneration in the Reaction Catalyzed by Formamidopyrimidine-DNA Glycosylase. Biochemistry 2009; 48:11335-43. [DOI: 10.1021/bi901100b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Nikita A. Kuznetsov
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Enzymologie et Cinetique Structurale, Laboratoire de Biotechnologies et Pharmacologie Génétique Appliquées (UMR 8113 du CNRS), Ecole Normale Superieur de Cachan, 94235 Cachan, France
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Córdoba-Cañero D, Morales-Ruiz T, Roldán-Arjona T, Ariza RR. Single-nucleotide and long-patch base excision repair of DNA damage in plants. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 60:716-28. [PMID: 19682284 PMCID: PMC2954439 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2009.03994.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2009] [Revised: 07/30/2009] [Accepted: 08/04/2009] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Base excision repair (BER) is a critical pathway in cellular defense against endogenous or exogenous DNA damage. This elaborate multistep process is initiated by DNA glycosylases that excise the damaged base, and continues through the concerted action of additional proteins that finally restore DNA to the unmodified state. BER has been subject to detailed biochemical analysis in bacteria, yeast and animals, mainly through in vitro reproduction of the entire repair reaction in cell-free extracts. However, an understanding of this repair pathway in plants has consistently lagged behind. We report the extension of BER biochemical analysis to plants, using Arabidopsis cell extracts to monitor repair of DNA base damage in vitro. We have used this system to demonstrate that Arabidopsis cell extracts contain the enzymatic machinery required to completely repair ubiquitous DNA lesions, such as uracil and abasic (AP) sites. Our results reveal that AP sites generated after uracil excision are processed both by AP endonucleases and AP lyases, generating either 5'- or 3'-blocked ends, respectively. We have also found that gap filling and ligation may proceed either through insertion of just one nucleotide (short-patch BER) or several nucleotides (long-patch BER). This experimental system should prove useful in the biochemical and genetic dissection of BER in plants, and contribute to provide a broader picture of the evolution and biological relevance of DNA repair pathways.
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Dalhus B, Laerdahl JK, Backe PH, Bjørås M. DNA base repair--recognition and initiation of catalysis. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2009; 33:1044-78. [PMID: 19659577 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2009.00188.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Endogenous DNA damage induced by hydrolysis, reactive oxygen species and alkylation modifies DNA bases and the structure of the DNA duplex. Numerous mechanisms have evolved to protect cells from these deleterious effects. Base excision repair is the major pathway for removing base lesions. However, several mechanisms of direct base damage reversal, involving enzymes such as transferases, photolyases and oxidative demethylases, are specialized to remove certain types of photoproducts and alkylated bases. Mismatch excision repair corrects for misincorporation of bases by replicative DNA polymerases. The determination of the 3D structure and visualization of DNA repair proteins and their interactions with damaged DNA have considerably aided our understanding of the molecular basis for DNA base lesion repair and genome stability. Here, we review the structural biochemistry of base lesion recognition and initiation of one-step direct reversal (DR) of damage as well as the multistep pathways of base excision repair (BER), nucleotide incision repair (NIR) and mismatch repair (MMR).
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- Bjørn Dalhus
- Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN), Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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