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Dall'Agnese G, Dall'Agnese A, Banani SF, Codrich M, Malfatti MC, Antoniali G, Tell G. Role of condensates in modulating DNA repair pathways and its implication for chemoresistance. J Biol Chem 2023:104800. [PMID: 37164156 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.104800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Revised: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2023] Open
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For cells, it is important to repair DNA damage, such as double strand and single strand DNA breaks, because unrepaired DNA can compromise genetic integrity, potentially leading to cell death or cancer. Cells have multiple DNA damage repair pathways that have been the subject of detailed genetic, biochemical, and structural studies. Recently, the scientific community has started to gain evidence that the repair of DNA double strand breaks may occur within biomolecular condensates and that condensates may also contribute to DNA damage through concentrating genotoxic agents used to treat various cancers. Here, we summarize key features of biomolecular condensates and note where they have been implicated in the repair of DNA double strand breaks. We also describe evidence suggesting that condensates may be involved in the repair of other types of DNA damage, including single strand DNA breaks, nucleotide modifications (e.g., mismatch and oxidized bases) and bulky lesions, among others. Finally, we discuss old and new mysteries that could now be addressed considering the properties of condensates, including chemoresistance mechanisms.
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- Giuseppe Dall'Agnese
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and DNA repair, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 455 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 455 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and DNA repair, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and DNA repair, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and DNA repair, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and DNA repair, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy.
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Hammel M, Tainer JA. X-ray scattering reveals disordered linkers and dynamic interfaces in complexes and mechanisms for DNA double-strand break repair impacting cell and cancer biology. Protein Sci 2021; 30:1735-1756. [PMID: 34056803 PMCID: PMC8376411 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2021] [Revised: 05/23/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Evolutionary selection ensures specificity and efficiency in dynamic metastable macromolecular machines that repair DNA damage without releasing toxic and mutagenic intermediates. Here we examine non‐homologous end joining (NHEJ) as the primary conserved DNA double‐strand break (DSB) repair process in human cells. NHEJ has exemplary key roles in networks determining the development, outcome of cancer treatments by DSB‐inducing agents, generation of antibody and T‐cell receptor diversity, and innate immune response for RNA viruses. We determine mechanistic insights into NHEJ structural biochemistry focusing upon advanced small angle X‐ray scattering (SAXS) results combined with X‐ray crystallography (MX) and cryo‐electron microscopy (cryo‐EM). SAXS coupled to atomic structures enables integrated structural biology for objective quantitative assessment of conformational ensembles and assemblies in solution, intra‐molecular distances, structural similarity, functional disorder, conformational switching, and flexibility. Importantly, NHEJ complexes in solution undergo larger allosteric transitions than seen in their cryo‐EM or MX structures. In the long‐range synaptic complex, X‐ray repair cross‐complementing 4 (XRCC4) plus XRCC4‐like‐factor (XLF) form a flexible bridge and linchpin for DNA ends bound to KU heterodimer (Ku70/80) and DNA‐PKcs (DNA‐dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit). Upon binding two DNA ends, auto‐phosphorylation opens DNA‐PKcs dimer licensing NHEJ via concerted conformational transformations of XLF‐XRCC4, XLF–Ku80, and LigIVBRCT–Ku70 interfaces. Integrated structures reveal multifunctional roles for disordered linkers and modular dynamic interfaces promoting DSB end processing and alignment into the short‐range complex for ligation by LigIV. Integrated findings define dynamic assemblies fundamental to designing separation‐of‐function mutants and allosteric inhibitors targeting conformational transitions in multifunctional complexes.
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- Michal Hammel
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.,Department of Cancer Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.,Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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Stinson BM, Loparo JJ. Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks by the Nonhomologous End Joining Pathway. Annu Rev Biochem 2021; 90:137-164. [PMID: 33556282 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-080320-110356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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DNA double-strand breaks pose a serious threat to genome stability. In vertebrates, these breaks are predominantly repaired by nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ), which pairs DNA ends in a multiprotein synaptic complex to promote their direct ligation. NHEJ is a highly versatile pathway that uses an array of processing enzymes to modify damaged DNA ends and enable their ligation. The mechanisms of end synapsis and end processing have important implications for genome stability. Rapid and stable synapsis is necessary to limit chromosome translocations that result from the mispairing of DNA ends. Furthermore, end processing must be tightly regulated to minimize mutations at the break site. Here, we review our current mechanistic understanding of vertebrate NHEJ, with a particular focus on end synapsis and processing.
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- Benjamin M Stinson
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA; ,
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA; ,
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Potrzebowski W, Trewhella J, Andre I. Bayesian inference of protein conformational ensembles from limited structural data. PLoS Comput Biol 2018; 14:e1006641. [PMID: 30557358 PMCID: PMC6312354 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Revised: 12/31/2018] [Accepted: 11/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Many proteins consist of folded domains connected by regions with higher flexibility. The details of the resulting conformational ensemble play a central role in controlling interactions between domains and with binding partners. Small-Angle Scattering (SAS) is well-suited to study the conformational states adopted by proteins in solution. However, analysis is complicated by the limited information content in SAS data and care must be taken to avoid constructing overly complex ensemble models and fitting to noise in the experimental data. To address these challenges, we developed a method based on Bayesian statistics that infers conformational ensembles from a structural library generated by all-atom Monte Carlo simulations. The first stage of the method involves a fast model selection based on variational Bayesian inference that maximizes the model evidence of the selected ensemble. This is followed by a complete Bayesian inference of population weights in the selected ensemble. Experiments with simulated ensembles demonstrate that model evidence is capable of identifying the correct ensemble and that correct number of ensemble members can be recovered up to high level of noise. Using experimental data, we demonstrate how the method can be extended to include data from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and structural energies of conformers extracted from the all-atom energy functions. We show that the data from SAXS, NMR chemical shifts and energies calculated from conformers can work synergistically to improve the definition of the conformational ensemble.
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- Wojciech Potrzebowski
- Data Management and Software Centre, European Spallation Source ERIC, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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Trewhella J. Small Angle Scattering and Structural Biology: Data Quality and Model Validation. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2018; 1105:77-100. [PMID: 30617825 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2200-6_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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This chapter provides a brief review of the current state-of-the-art in small-angle scattering (SAS) from biomolecules in solution in regard to: (1) sample preparation and instrumentation, (2) data reduction and analysis, and (3) three-dimensional structural modelling and validation. In this context, areas of ongoing research in regard to the interpretation of SAS data will be discussed with a particular focus on structural modelling using computational methods and data from different experimental techniques, including SAS (hybrid methods). Finally, progress made in establishing community accepted publication guidelines and a standard reporting framework that includes SAS data deposition in a public data bank will be described. Importantly, SAS data with associated meta-data can now be held in a format that supports exchange between data archives and seamless interoperability with the world-wide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB). Biomolecular SAS is thus well positioned to contribute to an envisioned federation of data archives in support of hybrid structural biology.
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- Jill Trewhella
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. .,Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
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Adrian M, Winnerdy FR, Heddi B, Phan AT. Rotation of Guanine Amino Groups in G-Quadruplexes: A Probe for Local Structure and Ligand Binding. Biophys J 2017; 113:775-784. [PMID: 28834714 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.05.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2017] [Revised: 05/22/2017] [Accepted: 05/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Nucleic acids are dynamic molecules whose functions may depend on their conformational fluctuations and local motions. In particular, amino groups are dynamic components of nucleic acids that participate in the formation of various secondary structures such as G-quadruplexes. Here, we present a cost-efficient NMR method to quantify the rotational dynamics of guanine amino groups in G-quadruplex nucleic acids. An isolated spectrum of amino protons from a specific tetrad-bound guanine can be extracted from the nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy spectrum based on the close proximity between the intra-residue imino and amino protons. We apply the method in different structural contexts of G-quadruplexes and their complexes. Our results highlight the role of stacking and hydrogen-bond interactions in restraining amino-group rotation. The measurement of the rotation rate of individual amino groups could give insight into the dynamic processes occurring at specific locations within G-quadruplex nucleic acids, providing valuable probes for local structure, dynamics, and ligand binding.
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- Michael Adrian
- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
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Reed B, Yakovleva L, Shuman S, Ghose R. Characterization of DNA Binding by the Isolated N-Terminal Domain of Vaccinia Virus DNA Topoisomerase IB. Biochemistry 2017; 56:3307-3317. [PMID: 28570045 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Vaccinia TopIB (vTopIB), a 314-amino acid eukaryal-type IB topoisomerase, recognizes and transesterifies at the DNA sequence 5'-(T/C)CCTT↓, leading to the formation of a covalent DNA-(3'-phosphotyrosyl274)-enzyme intermediate in the supercoil relaxation reaction. The C-terminal segment of vTopIB (amino acids 81-314), which engages the DNA minor groove at the scissile phosphodiester, comprises an autonomous catalytic domain that retains cleavage specificity, albeit with a cleavage site affinity lower than that of the full-length enzyme. The N-terminal domain (amino acids 1-80) engages the major groove on the DNA face opposite the scissile phosphodiester. Whereas DNA contacts of the N-terminal domain have been implicated in the DNA site affinity of vTopIB, it was not known whether the N-terminal domain per se could bind DNA. Here, using isothermal titration calorimetry, we demonstrate the ability of the isolated N-terminal domain to bind a CCCTT-containing 24-mer duplex with an apparent affinity that is ∼2.2-fold higher than that for an otherwise identical duplex in which the pentapyrimidine sequence is changed to ACGTG. Analyses of the interactions of the isolated N-terminal domain with duplex DNA via solution nuclear magnetic resonance methods are consistent with its DNA contacts observed in DNA-bound crystal structures of full-length vTopIB. The chemical shift perturbations and changes in hydrodynamic properties triggered by CCCTT DNA versus non-CCCTT DNA suggest differences in DNA binding dynamics. The importance of key N-terminal domain contacts in the context of full-length vTopIB is underscored by assessing the effects of double-alanine mutations on DNA transesterification and its sensitivity to ionic strength.
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- Benjamin Reed
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The City College of New York , New York, New York 10031, United States
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- Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute , New York, New York 10021, United States
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- Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute , New York, New York 10021, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The City College of New York , New York, New York 10031, United States
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Brosey CA, Ahmed Z, Lees-Miller SP, Tainer JA. What Combined Measurements From Structures and Imaging Tell Us About DNA Damage Responses. Methods Enzymol 2017; 592:417-455. [PMID: 28668129 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2017.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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DNA damage outcomes depend upon the efficiency and fidelity of DNA damage responses (DDRs) for different cells and damage. As such, DDRs represent tightly regulated prototypical systems for linking nanoscale biomolecular structure and assembly to the biology of genomic regulation and cell signaling. However, the dynamic and multifunctional nature of DDR assemblies can render elusive the correlation between the structures of DDR factors and specific biological disruptions to the DDR when these structures are altered. In this chapter, we discuss concepts and strategies for combining structural, biophysical, and imaging techniques to investigate DDR recognition and regulation, and thus bridge sequence-level structural biochemistry to quantitative biological outcomes visualized in cells. We focus on representative DDR responses from PARP/PARG/AIF damage signaling in DNA single-strand break repair and nonhomologous end joining complexes in double-strand break repair. Methods with exemplary experimental results are considered with a focus on strategies for probing flexibility, conformational changes, and assembly processes that shape a predictive understanding of DDR mechanisms in a cellular context. Integration of structural and imaging measurements promises to provide foundational knowledge to rationally control and optimize DNA damage outcomes for synthetic lethality and for immune activation with resulting insights for biology and cancer interventions.
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- Chris A Brosey
- The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
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- The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
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- Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
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- The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States; Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States.
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Pathophysiology of bronchoconstriction: role of oxidatively damaged DNA repair. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 2016; 16:59-67. [PMID: 26694039 DOI: 10.1097/aci.0000000000000232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW To provide an overview on the present understanding of roles of oxidative DNA damage repair in cell signaling underlying bronchoconstriction common to, but not restricted to various forms of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. RECENT FINDINGS Bronchoconstriction is a tightening of smooth muscle surrounding the bronchi and bronchioles with consequent wheezing and shortness of breath. Key stimuli include air pollutants, viral infections, allergens, thermal and osmotic changes, and shear stress of mucosal epithelium, triggering a wide range of cellular, vascular, and neural events. Although activation of nerve fibers, the role of G-proteins, protein kinases and Ca++, and molecular interaction within contracting filaments of muscle are well defined, the overarching mechanisms by which a wide range of stimuli initiate these events are not fully understood. Many, if not all, stimuli increase levels of reactive oxygen species, which are signaling and oxidatively modifying macromolecules, including DNA. The primary reactive oxygen species target in DNA is guanine, and 8-oxoguanine is one of the most abundant base lesions. It is repaired by 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase1 during base excision repair processes. The product, free 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine base, is bound by 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase1 with high affinity, and the complex then functions as an activator of small guanosine triphosphatases, triggering pathways for inducing gene expression and contraction of intracellular filaments in mast and smooth muscle cells. SUMMARY Oxidative DNA damage repair-mediated cell activation signaling result in gene expression that 'primes' the mucosal epithelium and submucosal tissues to generate mediators of airway smooth muscle contractions.
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Aggregation propensities of superoxide dismutase G93 hotspot mutants mirror ALS clinical phenotypes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:E4568-76. [PMID: 25316790 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308531111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Protein framework alterations in heritable Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) mutants cause misassembly and aggregation in cells affected by the motor neuron disease ALS. However, the mechanistic relationship between superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) mutations and human disease is controversial, with many hypotheses postulated for the propensity of specific SOD mutants to cause ALS. Here, we experimentally identify distinguishing attributes of ALS mutant SOD proteins that correlate with clinical severity by applying solution biophysical techniques to six ALS mutants at human SOD hotspot glycine 93. A small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) assay and other structural methods assessed aggregation propensity by defining the size and shape of fibrillar SOD aggregates after mild biochemical perturbations. Inductively coupled plasma MS quantified metal ion binding stoichiometry, and pulsed dipolar ESR spectroscopy evaluated the Cu(2+) binding site and defined cross-dimer copper-copper distance distributions. Importantly, we find that copper deficiency in these mutants promotes aggregation in a manner strikingly consistent with their clinical severities. G93 mutants seem to properly incorporate metal ions under physiological conditions when assisted by the copper chaperone but release copper under destabilizing conditions more readily than the WT enzyme. Altered intradimer flexibility in ALS mutants may cause differential metal retention and promote distinct aggregation trends observed for mutant proteins in vitro and in ALS patients. Combined biophysical and structural results test and link copper retention to the framework destabilization hypothesis as a unifying general mechanism for both SOD aggregation and ALS disease progression, with implications for disease severity and therapeutic intervention strategies.
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Detection of parametric changes in the Peyrard-Bishop- Dauxois model of DNA using nonlinear Kalman filtering. J Biol Phys 2014; 41:59-83. [PMID: 25294023 DOI: 10.1007/s10867-014-9366-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2014] [Accepted: 09/01/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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The derivative-free nonlinear Kalman filter is proposed for state estimation and fault diagnosis in distributed parameter systems of the wave-type and particularly in the Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model of DNA dynamics. At a first stage, a nonlinear filtering approach is introduced for estimating the dynamics of the Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois 1D nonlinear wave equation, through the processing of a small number of measurements. It is shown that the numerical solution of the associated partial differential equation results in a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. With the application of a diffeomorphism that is based on differential flatness theory it is shown that an equivalent description of the system is obtained in the linear canonical (Brunovsky) form. This transformation enables to obtain local estimates about the state vector of the DNA model through the application us of the standard Kalman filter recursion. At a second stage, the local statistical approach to fault diagnosis is used to perform fault diagnosis for this distributed parameter system by processing with statistical tools the differences (residuals) between the output of the Kalman filter and the measurements obtained from the distributed parameter system. Optimal selection of the fault threshold is succeeded by using the local statistical approach to fault diagnosis. The efficiency of the proposed filtering approach in the problem of fault diagnosis for parametric change detection, in nonlinear wave-type models of DNA dynamics, is confirmed through simulation experiments.
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The fidelity of the ligation step determines how ends are resolved during nonhomologous end joining. Nat Commun 2014; 5:4286. [PMID: 24989324 PMCID: PMC4107315 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2014] [Accepted: 06/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) can effectively resolve chromosome breaks despite diverse end structures, but it is unclear how the steps employed for resolution are determined. We sought to address this question by analyzing cellular NHEJ of ends with systematically mispaired and damaged termini. We show NHEJ is uniquely proficient at bypassing subtle terminal mispairs and radiomimetic damage by direct ligation. Nevertheless, bypass ability varies widely, with increases in mispair severity gradually reducing bypass products from 85% to 6%. End-processing by nucleases and polymerases is increased to compensate, though paths with the fewest number of steps to generate a substrate suitable for ligation are favored. Thus, both the frequency and nature of end processing are tailored to meet the needs of the ligation step. We propose a model where the ligase organizes all steps during NHEJ within the stable paired-end complex to limit end processing and associated errors.
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O'Flaherty DK, Denisov AY, Noronha AM, Wilds CJ. NMR structure of an ethylene interstrand cross-linked DNA which mimics the lesion formed by 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea. ChemMedChem 2014; 9:2099-103. [PMID: 24931822 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201402121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The bisalkylating agent 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU), used in cancer chemotherapy to hinder cellular proliferation, forms lethal interstrand cross-links (ICLs) in DNA. BCNU generates an ethylene linkage connecting the two DNA strands at the N1 atom of 2'-deoxyguanosine and N3 atom of 2'-deoxycytidine, which is a synthetically challenging probe to prepare. To this end, an ICL duplex linking the N1 atom of 2'-deoxyinosine to the N3 atom of thymidine via an ethylene linker was devised as a mimic. We have solved the structure of this ICL duplex by a combination of molecular dynamics and high-field NMR experiments. The ethylene linker is well-accommodated in the duplex with minimal global and local perturbations relative to the unmodified duplex. These results may account for the substantial stabilization of the ICL duplex observed by UV thermal denaturation experiments and provides structural insights of a probe that may be useful for DNA repair studies.
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- Derek K O'Flaherty
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montréal, QC H4B 1R6 (Canada)
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Haug R, Kramer M, Richert C. Three-pronged probes: high-affinity DNA binding with cap, β-alanines and oligopyrrolamides. Chemistry 2014; 19:15822-6. [PMID: 24222391 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201302972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Rüdiger Haug
- Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart (Germany), Fax: (+49) 711-685-64321
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Williams GJ, Hammel M, Radhakrishnan SK, Ramsden D, Lees-Miller SP, Tainer JA. Structural insights into NHEJ: building up an integrated picture of the dynamic DSB repair super complex, one component and interaction at a time. DNA Repair (Amst) 2014; 17:110-20. [PMID: 24656613 PMCID: PMC4102006 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2013] [Revised: 01/27/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is the major pathway for repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in human cells. NHEJ is also needed for V(D)J recombination and the development of T and B cells in vertebrate immune systems, and acts in both the generation and prevention of non-homologous chromosomal translocations, a hallmark of genomic instability and many human cancers. X-ray crystal structures, cryo-electron microscopy envelopes, and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) solution conformations and assemblies are defining most of the core protein components for NHEJ: Ku70/Ku80 heterodimer; the DNA dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs); the structure-specific endonuclease Artemis along with polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase (PNKP), aprataxin and PNKP related protein (APLF); the scaffolding proteins XRCC4 and XLF (XRCC4-like factor); DNA polymerases, and DNA ligase IV (Lig IV). The dynamic assembly of multi-protein NHEJ complexes at DSBs is regulated in part by protein phosphorylation. The basic steps of NHEJ have been biochemically defined to require: (1) DSB detection by the Ku heterodimer with subsequent DNA-PKcs tethering to form the DNA-PKcs-Ku-DNA complex (termed DNA-PK), (2) lesion processing, and (3) DNA end ligation by Lig IV, which functions in complex with XRCC4 and XLF. The current integration of structures by combined methods is resolving puzzles regarding the mechanisms, coordination and regulation of these three basic steps. Overall, structural results suggest the NHEJ system forms a flexing scaffold with the DNA-PKcs HEAT repeats acting as compressible macromolecular springs suitable to store and release conformational energy to apply forces to regulate NHEJ complexes and the DNA substrate for DNA end protection, processing, and ligation.
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- Gareth J Williams
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2 N 4N1 Canada
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 2759, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2 N 4N1 Canada; Department of Oncology, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2 N 4N1 Canada.
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- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Department of Molecular Biology, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States.
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Schneidman-Duhovny D, Hammel M, Tainer JA, Sali A. Accurate SAXS profile computation and its assessment by contrast variation experiments. Biophys J 2014; 105:962-74. [PMID: 23972848 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 406] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2012] [Revised: 07/03/2013] [Accepted: 07/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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A major challenge in structural biology is to characterize structures of proteins and their assemblies in solution. At low resolution, such a characterization may be achieved by small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS). Because SAXS analyses often require comparing profiles calculated from many atomic models against those determined by experiment, rapid and accurate profile computation from molecular structures is needed. We developed fast open-source x-ray scattering (FoXS) for profile computation. To match the experimental profile within the experimental noise, FoXS explicitly computes all interatomic distances and implicitly models the first hydration layer of the molecule. For assessing the accuracy of the modeled hydration layer, we performed contrast variation experiments for glucose isomerase and lysozyme, and found that FoXS can accurately represent density changes of this layer. The hydration layer model was also compared with a SAXS profile calculated for the explicit water molecules in the high-resolution structures of glucose isomerase and lysozyme. We tested FoXS on eleven protein, one DNA, and two RNA structures, revealing superior accuracy and speed versus CRYSOL, AquaSAXS, the Zernike polynomials-based method, and Fast-SAXS-pro. In addition, we demonstrated a significant correlation of the SAXS score with the accuracy of a structural model. Moreover, FoXS utility for analyzing heterogeneous samples was demonstrated for intrinsically flexible XLF-XRCC4 filaments and Ligase III-DNA complex. FoXS is extensively used as a standalone web server as a component of integrative structure determination by programs IMP, Chimera, and BILBOMD, as well as in other applications that require rapidly and accurately calculated SAXS profiles.
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- Dina Schneidman-Duhovny
- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Chiruvella KK, Liang Z, Wilson TE. Repair of double-strand breaks by end joining. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2013; 5:a012757. [PMID: 23637284 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a012757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 279] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) refers to a set of genome maintenance pathways in which two DNA double-strand break (DSB) ends are (re)joined by apposition, processing, and ligation without the use of extended homology to guide repair. Canonical NHEJ (c-NHEJ) is a well-defined pathway with clear roles in protecting the integrity of chromosomes when DSBs arise. Recent advances have revealed much about the identity, structure, and function of c-NHEJ proteins, but many questions exist regarding their concerted action in the context of chromatin. Alternative NHEJ (alt-NHEJ) refers to more recently described mechanism(s) that repair DSBs in less-efficient backup reactions. There is great interest in defining alt-NHEJ more precisely, including its regulation relative to c-NHEJ, in light of evidence that alt-NHEJ can execute chromosome rearrangements. Progress toward these goals is reviewed.
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Hegde ML, Tsutakawa SE, Hegde PM, Holthauzen LMF, Li J, Oezguen N, Hilser VJ, Tainer JA, Mitra S. The disordered C-terminal domain of human DNA glycosylase NEIL1 contributes to its stability via intramolecular interactions. J Mol Biol 2013; 425:2359-71. [PMID: 23542007 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.03.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2012] [Revised: 03/09/2013] [Accepted: 03/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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NEIL1 [Nei (endonuclease VIII)-like protein 1], one of the five mammalian DNA glycosylases that excise oxidized DNA base lesions in the human genome to initiate base excision repair, contains an intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain (CTD; ~100 residues), not conserved in its Escherichia coli prototype Nei. Although dispensable for NEIL1's lesion excision and AP lyase activities, this segment is required for efficient in vivo enzymatic activity and may provide an interaction interface for many of NEIL1's interactions with other base excision repair proteins. Here, we show that the CTD interacts with the folded domain in native NEIL1 containing 389 residues. The CTD is poised for local folding in an ordered structure that is induced in the purified fragment by osmolytes. Furthermore, deletion of the disordered tail lacking both Tyr and Trp residues causes a red shift in NEIL1's intrinsic Trp-specific fluorescence, indicating a more solvent-exposed environment for the Trp residues in the truncated protein, which also exhibits reduced stability compared to the native enzyme. These observations are consistent with stabilization of the native NEIL1 structure via intramolecular, mostly electrostatic, interactions that were disrupted by mutating a positively charged (Lys-rich) cluster of residues (amino acids 355-360) near the C-terminus. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) analysis confirms the flexibility and dynamic nature of NEIL1's CTD, a feature that may be critical to providing specificity for NEIL1's multiple, functional interactions.
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- Muralidhar L Hegde
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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Perry JJP, Tainer JA. Developing advanced X-ray scattering methods combined with crystallography and computation. Methods 2013; 59:363-71. [PMID: 23376408 PMCID: PMC3684416 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2013.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2012] [Revised: 01/15/2013] [Accepted: 01/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The extensive use of small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) over the last few years is rapidly providing new insights into protein interactions, complex formation and conformational states in solution. This SAXS methodology allows for detailed biophysical quantification of samples of interest. Initial analyses provide a judgment of sample quality, revealing the potential presence of aggregation, the overall extent of folding or disorder, the radius of gyration, maximum particle dimensions and oligomerization state. Structural characterizations include ab initio approaches from SAXS data alone, and when combined with previously determined crystal/NMR, atomistic modeling can further enhance structural solutions and assess validity. This combination can provide definitions of architectures, spatial organizations of protein domains within a complex, including those not determined by crystallography or NMR, as well as defining key conformational states of a protein interaction. SAXS is not generally constrained by macromolecule size, and the rapid collection of data in a 96-well plate format provides methods to screen sample conditions. This includes screening for co-factors, substrates, differing protein or nucleotide partners or small molecule inhibitors, to more fully characterize the variations within assembly states and key conformational changes. Such analyses may be useful for screening constructs and conditions to determine those most likely to promote crystal growth of a complex under study. Moreover, these high throughput structural determinations can be leveraged to define how polymorphisms affect assembly formations and activities. This is in addition to potentially providing architectural characterizations of complexes and interactions for systems biology-based research, and distinctions in assemblies and interactions in comparative genomics. Thus, SAXS combined with crystallography/NMR and computation provides a unique set of tools that should be considered as being part of one's repertoire of biophysical analyses, when conducting characterizations of protein and other macromolecular interactions.
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- J. Jefferson P. Perry
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA USA
- School of Biotechnology, Amrita University at Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, India
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA USA
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA
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Mahaney BL, Hammel M, Meek K, Tainer JA, Lees-Miller SP. XRCC4 and XLF form long helical protein filaments suitable for DNA end protection and alignment to facilitate DNA double strand break repair. Biochem Cell Biol 2013; 91:31-41. [PMID: 23442139 DOI: 10.1139/bcb-2012-0058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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DNA double strand breaks (DSBs), induced by ionizing radiation (IR) and endogenous stress including replication failure, are the most cytotoxic form of DNA damage. In human cells, most IR-induced DSBs are repaired by the nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) pathway. One of the most critical steps in NHEJ is ligation of DNA ends by DNA ligase IV (LIG4), which interacts with, and is stabilized by, the scaffolding protein X-ray cross-complementing gene 4 (XRCC4). XRCC4 also interacts with XRCC4-like factor (XLF, also called Cernunnos); yet, XLF has been one of the least mechanistically understood proteins and precisely how XLF functions in NHEJ has been enigmatic. Here, we examine current combined structural and mutational findings that uncover integrated functions of XRCC4 and XLF and reveal their interactions to form long, helical protein filaments suitable to protect and align DSB ends. XLF-XRCC4 provides a global structural scaffold for ligating DSBs without requiring long DNA ends, thus ensuring accurate and efficient ligation and repair. The assembly of these XRCC4-XLF filaments, providing both DNA end protection and alignment, may commit cells to NHEJ with general biological implications for NHEJ and DSB repair processes and their links to cancer predispositions and interventions.
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- Brandi L Mahaney
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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Lapkouski M, Tian L, Miller JT, Le Grice SFJ, Yang W. Complexes of HIV-1 RT, NNRTI and RNA/DNA hybrid reveal a structure compatible with RNA degradation. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2013; 20:230-236. [PMID: 23314251 PMCID: PMC3973182 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2012] [Accepted: 12/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Structures of type-1 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase (RT) have been determined in several forms, but only one contains an RNA/DNA hybrid. Here we report three structures of HIV-1 RT complexed with a non-nucleotide RT inhibitor (NNRTI) and an RNA/DNA hybrid. In the presence of an NNRTI, the RNA/DNA structure differs from all prior nucleic acid bound to RT including the RNA/DNA hybrid. The enzyme structure also differs from all previous RT–DNA complexes. As a result, the hybrid has ready access to the RNase H active site. These observations indicate that an RT–nucleic acid complex may adopt two structural states, one competent for DNA polymerization and the other for RNA degradation. RT mutations that confer drug resistance but are distant from the inhibitor-binding sites often map to the unique RT–hybrid interface that undergoes conformational changes between two catalytic states.
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- Mikalai Lapkouski
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- HIV Drug Resistance Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- HIV Drug Resistance Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Brosey CA, Yan C, Tsutakawa SE, Heller WT, Rambo RP, Tainer JA, Ivanov I, Chazin WJ. A new structural framework for integrating replication protein A into DNA processing machinery. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:2313-27. [PMID: 23303776 PMCID: PMC3575853 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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By coupling the protection and organization of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) with recruitment and alignment of DNA processing factors, replication protein A (RPA) lies at the heart of dynamic multi-protein DNA processing machinery. Nevertheless, how RPA coordinates biochemical functions of its eight domains remains unknown. We examined the structural biochemistry of RPA’s DNA-binding activity, combining small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering with all-atom molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the architecture of RPA’s DNA-binding core. The scattering data reveal compaction promoted by DNA binding; DNA-free RPA exists in an ensemble of states with inter-domain mobility and becomes progressively more condensed and less dynamic on binding ssDNA. Our results contrast with previous models proposing RPA initially binds ssDNA in a condensed state and becomes more extended as it fully engages the substrate. Moreover, the consensus view that RPA engages ssDNA in initial, intermediate and final stages conflicts with our data revealing that RPA undergoes two (not three) transitions as it binds ssDNA with no evidence for a discrete intermediate state. These results form a framework for understanding how RPA integrates the ssDNA substrate into DNA processing machinery, provides substrate access to its binding partners and promotes the progression and selection of DNA processing pathways.
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- Chris A Brosey
- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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Cheung HC, San Lucas FA, Hicks S, Chang K, Bertuch AA, Ribes-Zamora A. An S/T-Q cluster domain census unveils new putative targets under Tel1/Mec1 control. BMC Genomics 2012. [PMID: 23176708 PMCID: PMC3564818 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Background The cellular response to DNA damage is immediate and highly coordinated in order to maintain genome integrity and proper cell division. During the DNA damage response (DDR), the sensor kinases Tel1 and Mec1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and ATM and ATR in human, phosphorylate multiple mediators which activate effector proteins to initiate cell cycle checkpoints and DNA repair. A subset of kinase substrates are recognized by the S/T-Q cluster domain (SCD), which contains motifs of serine (S) or threonine (T) followed by a glutamine (Q). However, the full repertoire of proteins and pathways controlled by Tel1 and Mec1 is unknown. Results To identify all putative SCD-containing proteins, we analyzed the distribution of S/T-Q motifs within verified Tel1/Mec1 targets and arrived at a unifying SCD definition of at least 3 S/T-Q within a stretch of 50 residues. This new SCD definition was used in a custom bioinformatics pipeline to generate a census of SCD-containing proteins in both yeast and human. In yeast, 436 proteins were identified, a significantly larger number of hits than were expected by chance. These SCD-containing proteins did not distribute equally across GO-ontology terms, but were significantly enriched for those involved in processes related to the DDR. We also found a significant enrichment of proteins involved in telophase and cytokinesis, protein transport and endocytosis suggesting possible novel Tel1/Mec1 targets in these pathways. In the human proteome, a wide range of similar proteins were identified, including homologs of some SCD-containing proteins found in yeast. This list also included high concentrations of proteins in the Mediator, spindle pole body/centrosome and actin cytoskeleton complexes. Conclusions Using a bioinformatic approach, we have generated a census of SCD-containing proteins that are involved not only in known DDR pathways but several other pathways under Tel1/Mec1 control suggesting new putative targets for these kinases.
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- Hannah C Cheung
- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Bolanos-Garcia VM, Wu Q, Ochi T, Chirgadze DY, Sibanda BL, Blundell TL. Spatial and temporal organization of multi-protein assemblies: achieving sensitive control in information-rich cell-regulatory systems. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2012; 370:3023-3039. [PMID: 22615474 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The regulation of cellular processes in living organisms requires signalling systems that have a high signal-to-noise ratio. This is usually achieved by transient, multi-protein complexes that assemble cooperatively. Even in the crowded environment of the cell, such assemblies are unlikely to form by chance, thereby providing a sensitive regulation of cellular processes. Furthermore, selectivity and sensitivity may be achieved by the requirement for concerted folding and binding of previously unfolded components. We illustrate these features by focusing on two essential signalling pathways of eukaryotic cells: first, the monitoring and repair of DNA damage by non-homologous end joining, and second, the mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint, which detects and corrects defective attachments of chromosomes to the kinetochore. We show that multi-protein assemblies moderate the full range of functional complexity and diversity in the two signalling systems. Deciphering the nature of the interactions is central to understanding the mechanisms that control the flow of information in cell signalling and regulation.
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- Victor M Bolanos-Garcia
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK.
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Ochi T, Wu Q, Chirgadze DY, Grossmann JG, Bolanos-Garcia VM, Blundell TL. Structural insights into the role of domain flexibility in human DNA ligase IV. Structure 2012; 20:1212-22. [PMID: 22658747 PMCID: PMC3391681 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2012.04.012] [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] [Received: 01/20/2012] [Revised: 04/13/2012] [Accepted: 04/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Knowledge of the architecture of DNA ligase IV (LigIV) and interactions with XRCC4 and XLF-Cernunnos is necessary for understanding its role in the ligation of double-strand breaks during nonhomologous end joining. Here we report the structure of a subdomain of the nucleotidyltrasferase domain of human LigIV and provide insights into the residues associated with LIG4 syndrome. We use this structural information together with the known structures of the BRCT/XRCC4 complex and those of LigIV orthologs to interpret small-angle X-ray scattering of LigIV in complex with XRCC4 and size exclusion chromatography of LigIV, XRCC4, and XLF-Cernunnos. Our results suggest that the flexibility of the catalytic region is limited in a manner that affects the formation of the LigIV/XRCC4/XLF-Cernunnos complex.
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- Takashi Ochi
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK.
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Validation of macromolecular flexibility in solution by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2012; 41:789-99. [PMID: 22639100 PMCID: PMC3462898 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-012-0820-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2012] [Revised: 04/22/2012] [Accepted: 05/05/2012] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The dynamics of macromolecular conformations are critical to the action of cellular networks. Solution X-ray scattering studies, in combination with macromolecular X-ray crystallography (MX) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), strive to determine complete and accurate states of macromolecules, providing novel insights describing allosteric mechanisms, supramolecular complexes, and dynamic molecular machines. This review addresses theoretical and practical concepts, concerns, and considerations for using these techniques in conjunction with computational methods to productively combine solution-scattering data with high-resolution structures. I discuss the principal means of direct identification of macromolecular flexibility from SAXS data followed by critical concerns about the methods used to calculate theoretical SAXS profiles from high-resolution structures. The SAXS profile is a direct interrogation of the thermodynamic ensemble and techniques such as, for example, minimal ensemble search (MES), enhance interpretation of SAXS experiments by describing the SAXS profiles as population-weighted thermodynamic ensembles. I discuss recent developments in computational techniques used for conformational sampling, and how these techniques provide a basis for assessing the level of the flexibility within a sample. Although these approaches sacrifice atomic detail, the knowledge gained from ensemble analysis is often appropriate for developing hypotheses and guiding biochemical experiments. Examples of the use of SAXS and combined approaches with X-ray crystallography, NMR, and computational methods to characterize dynamic assemblies are presented.
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Matot B, Le Bihan YV, Lescasse R, Pérez J, Miron S, David G, Castaing B, Weber P, Raynal B, Zinn-Justin S, Gasparini S, Le Du MH. The orientation of the C-terminal domain of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rap1 protein is determined by its binding to DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 40:3197-207. [PMID: 22139930 PMCID: PMC3326314 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2011] [Revised: 11/10/2011] [Accepted: 11/11/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Rap1 is an essential DNA-binding factor from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae involved in transcription and telomere maintenance. Its binding to DNA targets Rap1 at particular loci, and may optimize its ability to form functional macromolecular assemblies. It is a modular protein, rich in large potentially unfolded regions, and comprising BRCT, Myb and RCT well-structured domains. Here, we present the architectures of Rap1 and a Rap1/DNA complex, built through a step-by-step integration of small angle X-ray scattering, X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance data. Our results reveal Rap1 structural adjustment upon DNA binding that involves a specific orientation of the C-terminal (RCT) domain with regard to the DNA binding domain (DBD). Crystal structure of DBD in complex with a long DNA identifies an essential wrapping loop, which constrains the orientation of the RCT and affects Rap1 affinity to DNA. Based on our structural information, we propose a model for Rap1 assembly at telomere.
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- Béatrice Matot
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie et Technologie de Saclay, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie, CNRS-URA2096, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Service Instabilité Génétique Réparation et Recombinaison, Laboratoire Télomère et Réparation du Chromosome, 92260 Fontenay-aux-roses, SOLEIL Synchrotron, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR4301, CNRS, rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans cedex 02, Institut Pasteur, CNRS-URA2185, Plate-forme 6, Cristallogenèse et Diffraction des Rayons X, 25 Rue Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris and Institut Pasteur, Plateforme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Département de Biologie Structurale et Chimie, F-75015 Paris, France
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Steinberg XP, Hepp MI, Fernández García Y, Suganuma T, Swanson SK, Washburn M, Workman JL, Gutiérrez JL. Human CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein β interacts with chromatin remodeling complexes of the imitation switch subfamily. Biochemistry 2012; 51:952-62. [PMID: 22242598 DOI: 10.1021/bi201593q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Transcription factor C/EBPβ is involved in several cellular processes, such as proliferation, differentiation, and energy metabolism. This factor exerts its activity through recruitment of different proteins or protein complexes, including the ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex SWI/SNF. The C/EBPβ protein is found as three major isoforms, C/EBPβ1, -2, and -3. They are generated by translation at alternative AUG initiation codons of a unique mRNA, C/EBPβ1 being the full-length isoform. It has been found that C/EBPβ1 participates in terminal differentiation processes. Conversely, C/EBPβ2 and -3 promote cell proliferation and are involved in malignant progression in a number of tissues. The mechanisms by which C/EBPβ2 and -3 promote cell proliferation and tumor progression are not fully understood. In this work, we sought to identify proteins interacting with hC/EBPβ using a proteomics approach. We found that all three isoforms interact with hSNF2H and hACF, components of ACF and CHRAC chromatin remodeling complexes, which belong to the imitation switch subfamily. Additional protein-protein interaction studies confirmed this finding and also showed that hC/EBPβ directly interacts with hACF1. By overexpressing hC/EBPβ, hSNF2H, and hACF1 in HepG2 cells and analyzing variations in expression of cyclin D1 and other C/EBPβ target genes, we observed a functional interaction between C/EBPβ and SNF2H/ACF1, characterized mainly by suppression of C/EBPβ transactivation activity in the presence of SNF2H and ACF1. Consistent with these findings, induction of differentiation of HepG2 cells by 1% DMSO was accompanied by a reduction in the level of cyclin D1 expression and the appearance of hC/EBPβ, hSNF2H, and hACF1 on the promoter region of this gene.
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- Ximena P Steinberg
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Concepción, Barrio Universitario s/n, Concepción, Chile 4070043
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Tsutakawa SE, Tainer JA. Double strand binding-single strand incision mechanism for human flap endonuclease: implications for the superfamily. Mech Ageing Dev 2012; 133:195-202. [PMID: 22244820 DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2011.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2011] [Revised: 10/31/2011] [Accepted: 11/29/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Detailed structural, mutational, and biochemical analyses of human FEN1/DNA complexes have revealed the mechanism for recognition of 5' flaps formed during lagging strand replication and DNA repair. FEN1 processes 5' flaps through a previously unknown, but structurally elegant double-stranded (ds) recognition/single stranded (ss) incision mechanism that both selects for 5' flaps and selects against ss DNA or RNA, intact dsDNA, and 3' flaps. Two major DNA binding interfaces, including a K(+) bridge between the DNA and the H2TH motif, are spaced one helical turn apart and together select for substrates with dsDNA. A conserved helical gateway and a helical cap protects the two-metal active site and selects for ss flaps with free termini. Structures of substrate and product reveal an unusual step between binding substrate and incision that involves a double base unpairing with incision occurring in the resulting unpaired DNA or RNA. Ordering of the active site requires a disorder-to-order transition induced by binding of an unpaired 3' flap, which ensures that the product is ligatable. Comparison with FEN superfamily members, including XPG, EXO1, and GEN1, identifies superfamily motifs such as the helical gateway that select for ss-dsDNA junctions and provides key biological insights into nuclease specificity and regulation.
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- Susan E Tsutakawa
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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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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Rambo RP, Tainer JA. Characterizing flexible and intrinsically unstructured biological macromolecules by SAS using the Porod-Debye law. Biopolymers 2011; 95:559-71. [PMID: 21509745 PMCID: PMC3103662 DOI: 10.1002/bip.21638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 395] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2011] [Revised: 04/05/2011] [Accepted: 04/10/2011] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Unstructured proteins, RNA or DNA components provide functionally important flexibility that is key to many macromolecular assemblies throughout cell biology. As objective, quantitative experimental measures of flexibility and disorder in solution are limited, small angle scattering (SAS), and in particular small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), provides a critical technology to assess macromolecular flexibility as well as shape and assembly. Here, we consider the Porod-Debye law as a powerful tool for detecting biopolymer flexibility in SAS experiments. We show that the Porod-Debye region fundamentally describes the nature of the scattering intensity decay by capturing the information needed for distinguishing between folded and flexible particles. Particularly for comparative SAS experiments, application of the law, as described here, can distinguish between discrete conformational changes and localized flexibility relevant to molecular recognition and interaction networks. This approach aids insightful analyses of fully and partly flexible macromolecules that is more robust and conclusive than traditional Kratky analyses. Furthermore, we demonstrate for prototypic SAXS data that the ability to calculate particle density by the Porod-Debye criteria, as shown here, provides an objective quality assurance parameter that may prove of general use for SAXS modeling and validation.
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- Robert P. Rambo
- Life Sciences Division, Advanced LIght Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Life Sciences Division, Advanced LIght Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
- Department of Molecular Biology, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Modeling non-homologous end joining. J Theor Biol 2011; 283:122-35. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2011] [Accepted: 05/11/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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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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Fuss JO, Tainer JA. XPB and XPD helicases in TFIIH orchestrate DNA duplex opening and damage verification to coordinate repair with transcription and cell cycle via CAK kinase. DNA Repair (Amst) 2011; 10:697-713. [PMID: 21571596 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2011.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Helicases must unwind DNA at the right place and time to maintain genomic integrity or gene expression. Biologically critical XPB and XPD helicases are key members of the human TFIIH complex; they anchor CAK kinase (cyclinH, MAT1, CDK7) to TFIIH and open DNA for transcription and for repair of duplex distorting damage by nucleotide excision repair (NER). NER is initiated by arrested RNA polymerase or damage recognition by XPC-RAD23B with or without DDB1/DDB2. XP helicases, named for their role in the extreme sun-mediated skin cancer predisposition xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), are then recruited to asymmetrically unwind dsDNA flanking the damage. XPB and XPD genetic defects can also cause premature aging with profound neurological defects without increased cancers: Cockayne syndrome (CS) and trichothiodystrophy (TTD). XP helicase patient phenotypes cannot be predicted from the mutation position along the linear gene sequence and adjacent mutations can cause different diseases. Here we consider the structural biology of DNA damage recognition by XPC-RAD23B, DDB1/DDB2, RNAPII, and ATL, and of helix unwinding by the XPB and XPD helicases plus the bacterial repair helicases UvrB and UvrD in complex with DNA. We then propose unified models for TFIIH assembly and roles in NER. Collective crystal structures with NMR and electron microscopy results reveal functional motifs, domains, and architectural elements that contribute to biological activities: damaged DNA binding, translocation, unwinding, and ATP driven changes plus TFIIH assembly and signaling. Coupled with mapping of patient mutations, these combined structural analyses provide a framework for integrating and unifying the rich biochemical and cellular information that has accumulated over forty years of study. This integration resolves puzzles regarding XP helicase functions and suggests that XP helicase positions and activities within TFIIH detect and verify damage, select the damaged strand for incision, and coordinate repair with transcription and cell cycle through CAK signaling.
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- Jill O Fuss
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is a rare, neurodegenerative, inherited disease arising from mutations in the kinase A-T mutated (ATM), which promotes cell cycle checkpoints and DNA double-strand break repair. Puzzlingly, these ATM activities fail to fully explain A-T neuropathologies, which instead have links to stress induced by reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, a landmark discovery reveals an unexpected intersection of ROS and kinase signaling: ATM can be directly activated by oxidation to form a disulfide-linked dimer in a mechanism distinct from DNA damage activation. When combined with notable structural-based insights into the ATM homolog DNA-PK (DNA-protein kinase) and mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin), these results suggest conformation and assembly mechanisms to signal oxidative stress through an ATM nodal point. These findings fundamentally affect our understanding of ROS and ATM signaling and of the A-T phenotype, with implications for altering signaling in cancer cells to increase sensitivities to current therapeutic interventions.
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- J Jefferson P Perry
- Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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XLF regulates filament architecture of the XRCC4·ligase IV complex. Structure 2011; 18:1431-42. [PMID: 21070942 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2010.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2010] [Revised: 09/01/2010] [Accepted: 09/02/2010] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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DNA ligase IV (LigIV) is critical for nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ), the major DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway in human cells, and LigIV activity is regulated by XRCC4 and XLF (XRCC4-like factor) interactions. Here, we employ small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) data to characterize three-dimensional arrangements in solution for full-length XRCC4, XRCC4 in complex with LigIV tandem BRCT domains and XLF, plus the XRCC4·XLF·BRCT2 complex. XRCC4 forms tetramers mediated through a head-to-head interface, and the XRCC4 C-terminal coiled-coil region folds back on itself to support this interaction. The interaction between XLF and XRCC4 is also mediated via head-to-head interactions. In the XLF·XRCC4·BRCT complex, alternating repeating units of XLF and XRCC4·BRCT place the BRCT domain on one side of the filament. Collective results identify XRCC4 and XLF filaments suitable to align DNA molecules and function to facilitate LigIV end joining required for DSB repair in vivo.
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Dobbs TA, Tainer JA, Lees-Miller SP. A structural model for regulation of NHEJ by DNA-PKcs autophosphorylation. DNA Repair (Amst) 2010; 9:1307-14. [PMID: 21030321 PMCID: PMC3045832 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2010.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) and Ku heterodimer together form the biologically critical DNA-PK complex that plays key roles in the repair of ionizing radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks through the non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) pathway. Despite elegant and informative electron microscopy studies, the mechanism by which DNA-PK co-ordinates the initiation of NHEJ has been enigmatic due to limited structural information. Here, we discuss how the recently described small angle X-ray scattering structures of full-length Ku heterodimer and DNA-PKcs in solution, combined with a breakthrough DNA-PKcs crystal structure, provide significant insights into the early stages of NHEJ. Dynamic structural changes associated with a functionally important cluster of autophosphorylation sites play a significant role in regulating the dissociation of DNA-PKcs from Ku and DNA. These new structural insights have implications for understanding the formation and control of the DNA-PK synaptic complex, DNA-PKcs activation and initiation of NHEJ. More generally, they provide prototypic information for the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase-like (PIKK) family of serine/threonine protein kinases that includes Ataxia Telangiectasia-Mutated (ATM) and ATM-, Rad3-related (ATR) as well as DNA-PKcs.
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- Tracey A. Dobbs
- Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Oncology, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4Z6
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA and Life Sciences Division, Department of Molecular Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Oncology, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4Z6
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Williams GJ, Lees-Miller SP, Tainer JA. Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 conformations and the control of sensing, signaling, and effector responses at DNA double-strand breaks. DNA Repair (Amst) 2010; 9:1299-306. [PMID: 21035407 PMCID: PMC3008338 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2010.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/30/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Repair and integrity of DNA ends at breaks, replication forks and telomeres are essential for life; yet, paradoxically, these responses are, in many cases, controlled by a single protein complex, Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 (MRN). The MRN complex consists of dimers of each subunit and this heterohexamer controls key sensing, signaling, regulation, and effector responses to DNA double-strand breaks including ATM activation, homologous recombinational repair, microhomology-mediated end joining and, in some organisms, non-homologous end joining. We propose that this is possible because each MRN subunit can exist in three or more distinct states; thus, the trimer of MRN dimers can exist in a stunning 6(3) or 216 states, a number that can be expanded further when post-translational modifications are taken into account. MRN can therefore be considered as a molecular computer that effectively assesses optimal responses and pathway choice based upon its states as set by cell status and the nature of the DNA damage. This extreme multi-state concept demands a paradigm shift from striving to understand DNA damage responses in separate terms of signaling, checkpoint, and effector proteins: we must now endeavor to characterize conformational and assembly states of MRN and other DNA repair machines that couple, coordinate, and control biological outcomes. Addressing the emerging challenge of gaining a detailed molecular understanding of MRN and other multi-state dynamic DNA repair machines promises to provide opportunities to develop master keys for controlling cell biology with probable impacts on therapeutic interventions.
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- Gareth J. Williams
- Life Sciences Division, Department of Molecular Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Life Sciences Division, Department of Molecular Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Molecular Biology, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Classen S, Rodic I, Holton J, Hura GL, Hammel M, Tainer JA. Software for the high-throughput collection of SAXS data using an enhanced Blu-Ice/DCS control system. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2010; 17:774-81. [PMID: 20975223 PMCID: PMC2964114 DOI: 10.1107/s0909049510028566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2010] [Accepted: 08/04/2010] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) provides powerful complementary data for macromolecular crystallography (MX) by defining shape, conformation and assembly in solution. Although SAXS is in principle the highest throughput technique for structural biology, data collection is limited in practice by current data collection software. Here the adaption of beamline control software, historically developed for MX beamlines, for the efficient operation and high-throughput data collection at synchrotron SAXS beamlines is reported. The Blu-Ice GUI and Distributed Control System (DCS) developed in the Macromolecular Crystallography Group at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory has been optimized, extended and enhanced to suit the specific needs of the biological SAXS endstation at the SIBYLS beamline at the Advanced Light Source. The customizations reported here provide a potential route for other SAXS beamlines in need of robust and efficient beamline control software. As a great deal of effort and optimization has gone into crystallographic software, the adaption and extension of crystallographic software may prove to be a general strategy to provide advanced SAXS software for the synchrotron community. In this way effort can be put into optimizing features for SAXS rather than reproducing those that have already been successfully implemented for the crystallographic community.
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- Scott Classen
- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Ochi T, Sibanda BL, Wu Q, Chirgadze DY, Bolanos-Garcia VM, Blundell TL. Structural biology of DNA repair: spatial organisation of the multicomponent complexes of nonhomologous end joining. J Nucleic Acids 2010; 2010. [PMID: 20862368 PMCID: PMC2938450 DOI: 10.4061/2010/621695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2010] [Accepted: 07/02/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) plays a major role in double-strand break DNA repair, which involves a series of steps mediated by multiprotein complexes. A ring-shaped Ku70/Ku80 heterodimer forms first at broken DNA ends, DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) binds to mediate synapsis and nucleases process DNA overhangs. DNA ligase IV (LigIV) is recruited as a complex with XRCC4 for ligation, with XLF/Cernunnos, playing a role in enhancing activity of LigIV. We describe how a combination of methods-X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy and small angle X-ray scattering-can give insights into the transient multicomponent complexes that mediate NHEJ. We first consider the organisation of DNA-PKcs/Ku70/Ku80/DNA complex (DNA-PK) and then discuss emerging evidence concerning LigIV/XRCC4/XLF/DNA and higher-order complexes. We conclude by discussing roles of multiprotein systems in maintaining high signal-to-noise and the value of structural studies in developing new therapies in oncology and elsewhere.
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Affiliation(s)
- Takashi Ochi
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
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