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Béguin P, Chekli Y, Sezonov G, Forterre P, Krupovic M. Sequence motifs recognized by the casposon integrase of Aciduliprofundum boonei. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 47:6386-6395. [PMID: 31114911 PMCID: PMC6614799 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2019] [Revised: 04/17/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Casposons are a group of bacterial and archaeal DNA transposons encoding a specific integrase, termed casposase, which is homologous to the Cas1 enzyme responsible for the integration of new spacers into CRISPR loci. Here, we characterized the sequence motifs recognized by the casposase from a thermophilic archaeon Aciduliprofundum boonei. We identified a stretch of residues, located in the leader region upstream of the actual integration site, whose deletion or mutagenesis impaired the concerted integration reaction. However, deletions of two-thirds of the target site were fully functional. Various single-stranded 6-FAM-labelled oligonucleotides derived from casposon terminal inverted repeats were as efficiently incorporated as duplexes into the target site. This result suggests that, as in the case of spacer insertion by the CRISPR Cas1–Cas2 integrase, casposon integration involves splaying of the casposon termini, with single-stranded ends being the actual substrates. The sequence critical for incorporation was limited to the five terminal residues derived from the 3′ end of the casposon. Furthermore, we characterize the casposase from Nitrosopumilus koreensis, a marine member of the phylum Thaumarchaeota, and show that it shares similar properties with the A. boonei enzyme, despite belonging to a different family. These findings further reinforce the mechanistic similarities and evolutionary connection between the casposons and the adaptation module of the CRISPR–Cas systems.
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- Pierre Béguin
- Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Dr. Roux 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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- Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Dr. Roux 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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- UMRS 1138 - Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Sorbonne Université, 15, rue de l'École de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France
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- Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Dr. Roux 75724 Paris cedex 15, France.,Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris- Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, Paris, France
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- Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Dr. Roux 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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Zolotarev N, Georgiev P, Maksimenko O. Removal of extra sequences with I-SceI in combination with CRISPR/Cas9 technique for precise gene editing in Drosophila. Biotechniques 2019; 66:198-201. [DOI: 10.2144/btn-2018-0147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The CRISPR/Cas9 system has recently emerged as a powerful tool for functional genomic studies and has been adopted for many organisms, including Drosophila. Previously, an efficient two-step strategy was developed to engineer the fly genome by combining CRISPR/Cas9 with recombinase-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE). This strategy allows the introduction of designed mutations into a gene of interest in vivo. However, the loxP or frt site remains in the edited locus. Here, we propose a modification of this approach for rapid and efficient seamless genome editing with CRISPR/Cas9 and site-specific recombinase-mediated integration (SSRMI) combined with recombination between homologous sequences induced by the rare-cutting endonuclease I-SceI. The induced homological recombination leads to the removal of the remaining extraneous sequences from the target locus.
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- Nikolay Zolotarev
- Group of Molecular Organization of Genome, Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov St, Moscow 119334, Russia
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- Department of the Control of Genetic Processes, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov St, Moscow 119334, Russia
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- Group of Molecular Organization of Genome, Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov St, Moscow 119334, Russia
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Pope WH, Jacobs-Sera D, Best AA, Broussard GW, Connerly PL, Dedrick RM, Kremer TA, Offner S, Ogiefo AH, Pizzorno MC, Rockenbach K, Russell DA, Stowe EL, Stukey J, Thibault SA, Conway JF, Hendrix RW, Hatfull GF. Cluster J mycobacteriophages: intron splicing in capsid and tail genes. PLoS One 2013; 8:e69273. [PMID: 23874930 PMCID: PMC3706429 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2013] [Accepted: 06/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Bacteriophages isolated on Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 represent many distinct genomes sharing little or no DNA sequence similarity. The genomes are architecturally mosaic and are replete with genes of unknown function. A new group of genomes sharing substantial nucleotide sequences constitute Cluster J. The six mycobacteriophages forming Cluster J are morphologically members of the Siphoviridae, but have unusually long genomes ranging from 106.3 to 117 kbp. Reconstruction of the capsid by cryo-electron microscopy of mycobacteriophage BAKA reveals an icosahedral structure with a triangulation number of 13. All six phages are temperate and homoimmune, and prophage establishment involves integration into a tRNA-Leu gene not previously identified as a mycobacterial attB site for phage integration. The Cluster J genomes provide two examples of intron splicing within the virion structural genes, one in a major capsid subunit gene, and one in a tail gene. These genomes also contain numerous free-standing HNH homing endonuclease, and comparative analysis reveals how these could contribute to genome mosaicism. The unusual Cluster J genomes provide new insights into phage genome architecture, gene function, capsid structure, gene mobility, intron splicing, and evolution.
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- Welkin H. Pope
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- School of Natural Sciences, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- School of Natural Sciences, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
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- Lexington High School, Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Pernstich C, Halford SE. Illuminating the reaction pathway of the FokI restriction endonuclease by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 40:1203-13. [PMID: 21993298 PMCID: PMC3273807 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The FokI restriction endonuclease is a monomeric protein that recognizes an asymmetric sequence and cleaves both DNA strands at fixed loci downstream of the site. Its single active site is positioned initially near the recognition sequence, distant from its downstream target 13 nucleotides away. Moreover, to cut both strands, it has to recruit a second monomer to give an assembly with two active sites. Here, the individual steps in the FokI reaction pathway were examined by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). To monitor DNA binding and domain motion, a fluorescence donor was attached to the DNA, either downstream or upstream of the recognition site, and an acceptor placed on the catalytic domain of the protein. A FokI variant incapable of dimerization was also employed, to disentangle the signal due to domain motion from that due to protein association. Dimerization was monitored separately by using two samples of FokI labelled with donor and acceptor, respectively. The stopped-flow studies revealed a complete reaction pathway for FokI, both the sequence of events and the kinetics of each individual step.
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- Christian Pernstich
- The DNA-proteins Interaction Unit, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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Marshall JJT, Smith RM, Ganguly S, Halford SE. Concerted action at eight phosphodiester bonds by the BcgI restriction endonuclease. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:7630-40. [PMID: 21653548 PMCID: PMC3177199 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The BcgI endonuclease exemplifies a subset of restriction enzymes, the Type IIB class, which make two double-strand breaks (DSBs) at each copy of their recognition sequence, one either side of the site, to excise the sequence from the remainder of the DNA. In this study, we show that BcgI is essentially inactive when bound to a single site and that to cleave a DNA with one copy of its recognition sequence, it has to act in trans, bridging two separate DNA molecules. We also show that BcgI makes the two DSBs at an individual site in a highly concerted manner. Intermediates cut on one side of the site do not accumulate during the course of the reaction: instead, the DNA is converted straight to the final products cut on both sides. On DNA with two sites, BcgI bridges the sites in cis and then generally proceeds to cut both strands on both sides of both sites without leaving the DNA. The BcgI restriction enzyme can thus excise two DNA segments together, by cleaving eight phosphodiester bonds within a single-DNA binding event.
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Galetto R, Duchateau P, Pâques F. Targeted approaches for gene therapy and the emergence of engineered meganucleases. Expert Opin Biol Ther 2009; 9:1289-303. [PMID: 19689185 DOI: 10.1517/14712590903213669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND In spite of significant advances in gene transfer strategies in the field of gene therapy, there is a strong emphasis on the development of alternative methods, providing better control of transgene expression and insertion patterns. OBJECTIVE Several new approaches consist of targeting a desired transgene or gene modification in a well defined locus, and we collectively refer to them as 'targeted approaches'. The use of redesigned meganucleases is one of these emerging technologies. Here we try to define the potential of this method, in the larger scope of targeted strategies. METHODS We survey the different types of targeted strategies, presenting the achievements and the potential applications, with a special emphasis on the use of redesigned endonucleases. CONCLUSION redesigned endonucleases represent one of the most promising tools for targeted approaches, and the opening of a clinical trial for AIDS patients has recently shown the maturity of these strategies. However, there is still a 'quest' for the best reagents, that is the endonucleases providing the best efficacy:toxicity ratio. New advances in protein design have allowed the engineering of new scaffolds, such as meganucleases, and the landscape of existing methods is likely to change over the next few years.
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- Roman Galetto
- Cellectis Genome Surgery, 102 Avenue Gaston Roussel, 93 340 Romainville Cedex, France
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Sanders KL, Catto LE, Bellamy SRW, Halford SE. Targeting individual subunits of the FokI restriction endonuclease to specific DNA strands. Nucleic Acids Res 2009; 37:2105-15. [PMID: 19223323 PMCID: PMC2673415 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Many restriction endonucleases are dimers that act symmetrically at palindromic DNA sequences, with each active site cutting one strand. In contrast, FokI acts asymmetrically at a non-palindromic sequence, cutting ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ strands 9 and 13 nucleotides downstream of the site. FokI is a monomeric protein with one active site and a single monomer covers the entire recognition sequence. To cut both strands, the monomer at the site recruits a second monomer from solution, but it is not yet known which DNA strand is cut by the monomer bound to the site and which by the recruited monomer. In this work, mutants of FokI were used to show that the monomer bound to the site made the distal cut in the bottom strand, whilst the recruited monomer made in parallel the proximal cut in the top strand. Procedures were also established to direct FokI activity, either preferentially to the bottom strand or exclusively to the top strand. The latter extends the range of enzymes for nicking specified strands at specific sequences, and may facilitate further applications of FokI in gene targeting.
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- Kelly L Sanders
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Tourand Y, Kobryn K, Chaconas G. Sequence-specific recognition but position-dependent cleavage of two distinct telomeres by the Borrelia burgdorferi telomere resolvase, ResT. Mol Microbiol 2003; 48:901-11. [PMID: 12753185 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03485.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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An unusual feature of bacteria in the genus Borrelia (causative agents of Lyme disease and relapsing fever) is a segmented genome consisting of multiple linear DNA molecules with covalently closed hairpin ends, known as telomeres. The hairpin telomeres are generated by a DNA breakage and reunion process (telomere resolution) promoted by ResT, an enzyme using an active site related to that of tyrosine recombinases and type IB topoisomerases. In this study, we define the minimal sequence requirements for a functional telomere and identify specific basepairs that appear to be important for telomere resolution. In addition, we show that the two naturally occurring and distinct telomere spacings found in B. burgdorferi can both be efficiently processed by ResT. This flexibility for substrate utilization by ResT supports the argument for a single telomere resolvase in Borrelia. Furthermore, although telomere recognition requires sequence specificity in part of the substrate, DNA cleavage is instead position dependent and occurs at a fixed distance from the axis of symmetry and the conserved sequence of box 3 in the different replicated telomere substrates. This positional dependence for DNA cleavage has not been observed previously for a tyrosine recombinase.
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- Yvonne Tourand
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada
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Loria A, Pan T. Modular construction for function of a ribonucleoprotein enzyme: the catalytic domain of Bacillus subtilis RNase P complexed with B. subtilis RNase P protein. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:1892-7. [PMID: 11328872 PMCID: PMC37254 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.9.1892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The bacterial RNase P holoenzyme catalyzes the formation of the mature 5'-end of tRNAs and is composed of an RNA and a protein subunit. Among the two folding domains of the RNase P RNA, the catalytic domain (C-domain) contains the active site of this ribozyme. We investigated specific binding of the Bacillus subtilis C-domain with the B.subtilis RNase P protein and examined the catalytic activity of this C-domain-P protein complex. The C-domain forms a specific complex with the P protein with a binding constant of approximately 0.1 microM. The C-domain-P protein complex and the holoenzyme are equally efficient in cleaving single-stranded RNA (approximately 0.9 min(-1) at pH 7.8) and substrates with a hairpin-loop 3' to the cleavage site (approximately 40 min(-1)). The holoenzyme reaction is much more efficient with a pre-tRNA substrate, binding at least 100-fold better and cleaving 10-500 times more efficiently. These results demonstrate that the RNase P holoenzyme is functionally constructed in three parts. The catalytic domain alone contains the active site, but has little specificity and affinity for most substrates. The specificity and affinity for the substrate is generated by either the specificity domain of RNase P RNA binding to a T stem-loop-like hairpin or RNase P protein binding to a single-stranded RNA. This modular construction may be exploited to obtain RNase P-based ribonucleoprotein complexes with altered substrate specificity.
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- A Loria
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Bujnicki JM, Rychlewski L. Unusual evolutionary history of the tRNA splicing endonuclease EndA: relationship to the LAGLIDADG and PD-(D/E)XK deoxyribonucleases. Protein Sci 2001; 10:656-60. [PMID: 11344334 PMCID: PMC2374129 DOI: 10.1110/ps.37101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The tRNA splicing endoribonuclease EndA from Methanococcus jannaschii is a homotetramer formed via heterologous interaction between the two pairs of homodimers. Each monomer consists of two alpha/beta domains, the N-terminal domain (NTD) and the C-terminal domain (CTD) containing the RNase A-like active site. Comparison of the EndA coordinates with the publicly available protein structure database revealed the similarity of both domains to site-specific deoxyribonucleases: the NTD to the LAGLIDADG family and the CTD to the PD-(D/E)XK family. Superposition of the NTD on the catalytic domain of LAGLIDADG homing endonucleases allowed a suggestion to be made about which amino acid residues of the tRNA splicing nuclease might participate in formation of a presumptive cryptic deoxyribonuclease active site. On the other hand, the CTD and PD-(D/E)XK endonucleases, represented by restriction enzymes and a phage lambda exonuclease, were shown to share extensive similarities of the structural framework, to which entirely different active sites might be attached in two alternative locations. These findings suggest that EndA evolved from a fusion protein with at least two distinct endonuclease activities: the ribonuclease, which made it an essential "antitoxin" for the cells whose RNA genes were interrupted by introns, and the deoxyribonuclease, which provided the means for homing-like mobility. The residues of the noncatalytic CTDs from the positions corresponding to the catalytic side chains in PD-(D/E)XK deoxyribonucleases map to the surface at the opposite side to the tRNA binding site, for which no function has been implicated. Many restriction enzymes from the PD-(D/E)XK superfamily might have the potential to maintain an additional active or binding site at the face opposite the deoxyribonuclease active site, a property that can be utilized in protein engineering.
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- J M Bujnicki
- Bioinformatics Laboratory, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, ul. ks. Trojdena 4, 02-109 Warsaw, Poland.
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Although modular macromolecular devices are encountered frequently in a variety of biological situations, their occurrence in biocatalysis has not been widely appreciated. Three general classes of modular biocatalysts can be identified: enzymes in which catalysis and substrate specificity are separable, multisubstrate enzymes in which binding sites for individual substrates are modular, and multienzyme systems that can catalyse programmable metabolic pathways. In the postgenomic era, the discovery of such systems can be expected to have a significant impact on the role of enzymes in synthetic and process chemistry.
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- C Khosla
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, California 94305, USA. ck.chemeng.stanford.edu
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Schöttler S, Wende W, Pingoud V, Pingoud A. Identification of Asp218 and Asp326 as the principal Mg2+ binding ligands of the homing endonuclease PI-SceI. Biochemistry 2000; 39:15895-900. [PMID: 11123916 DOI: 10.1021/bi001775n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The monomeric homing endonuclease PI-SceI harbors two catalytic centers which cooperate in the cleavage of the two strands of its extended recognition sequence. Structural and biochemical data suggest that catalytic center I contains Asp218, Asp229, and Lys403, while catalytic center II contains Asp326, Thr341, and Lys301. The analogy with I-CreI, for which the cocrystal structure with the DNA substrate has been determined, suggests that Asp218 and Asp229 in catalytic center I and Asp326 and Thr341 in catalytic center II serve as ligands for Mg(2+), the essential divalent metal ion cofactor which can be replaced by Mn(2+) in vitro. We have carried out a mutational analysis of these presumptive Mg(2+) ligands. The variants carrying an alanine or asparagine substitution bind DNA, but (with the exception of the D229N variant) are inactive in DNA cleavage in the presence of Mg(2+), demonstrating that these residues are important for cleavage. Our finding that the PI-SceI variants carrying single cysteine substitutions at these positions are inactive in the presence of the oxophilic Mg(2+) but active in the presence of the thiophilic Mn(2+) suggests that the amino acid residues at these positions are involved in cofactor binding. From the fact that in the presence of Mn(2+) the D218C and D326C variants are even more active than the wild-type enzyme, it is concluded that Asp218 and Asp326 are the principal Mg(2+) ligands of PI-SceI. On the basis of these findings and the available structural information, a model for the composition of the two Mg(2+) binding sites of PI-SceI is proposed.
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- S Schöttler
- Institut für Biochemie, FB 08, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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Kubareva EA, Thole H, Karyagina AS, Oretskaya TS, Pingoud A, Pingoud V. Identification of a base-specific contact between the restriction endonuclease SsoII and its recognition sequence by photocross-linking. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:1085-91. [PMID: 10666447 PMCID: PMC102617 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.5.1085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A target sequence-specific DNA binding region of the restriction endonuclease Sso II was identified by photocross-linking with an oligodeoxynucleotide duplex which was substituted with 5-iododeoxy-uridine (5-IdU) at the central position of the Sso II recognition site (CCNGG). For this purpose the Sso II-DNA complex was irradiated with a helium/cadmium laser (325 nm). The cross-linking yield obtained was approximately 50%. In the presence of excess unmodified oligodeoxynucleotide or with oligode-oxynucleotides substituted with 5-IdU elsewhere, no cross-linking was observed, indicating the specificity of the cross-linking reaction. The cross-linked Sso II-oligodeoxynucleotide complex was digested with chymotrypsin, a cross-linked peptide-oligodeoxy-nucleotide complex isolated and the site of cross-linking identified by Edman sequencing to be Trp61. In line with this identification is the finding that the W61A variant cannot be cross-linked with the IdU-substituted oligodeoxynucleotide, shows a decrease in affinity towards DNA and is inactive in cleavage. It is concluded that the region around Trp61 is involved in specific binding of Sso II to its DNA substrate.
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- E A Kubareva
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology and Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
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Hu D, Crist M, Duan X, Quiocho FA, Gimble FS. Probing the structure of the PI-SceI-DNA complex by affinity cleavage and affinity photocross-linking. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:2705-12. [PMID: 10644733 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.4.2705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The PI-SceI protein is an intein-encoded homing endonuclease that initiates the mobility of its gene by making a double strand break at a single site in the yeast genome. The PI-SceI protein splicing and endonucleolytic active sites are separately located in each of two domains in the PI-SceI structure. To determine the spatial relationship between bases in the PI-SceI recognition sequence and selected PI-SceI amino acids, the PI-SceI-DNA complex was probed by photocross-linking and affinity cleavage methods. Unique solvent-accessible cysteine residues were introduced into the two PI-SceI domains at positions 91, 97, 170, 230, 376, and 378, and the mutant proteins were modified with either 4-azidophenacyl bromide or iron (S)-1-(p-bromoacetamidobenzyl)-ethylenediaminetetraacetate (FeBABE). The phenyl azide-coupled proteins cross-linked to the PI-SceI target sequence, and the FeBABE-modified proteins cleaved the DNA proximal to the derivatized amino acid. The results suggest that an extended beta-hairpin loop in the endonuclease domain that contains residues 376 and 378 contacts the major groove near the PI-SceI cleavage site. Conversely, residues 91, 97, and 170 in the protein splicing domain are in close proximity to a distant region of the substrate. To interpret our results, we used a new PI-SceI structure that is ordered in regions of the protein that bind DNA. The data strongly support a model of the PI-SceI-DNA complex derived from this structure.
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- D Hu
- Center for Genome Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Department of Medical Biochemistry, The Texas A & M University System Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Mannino SJ, Jenkins CL, Raines RT. Chemical mechanism of DNA cleavage by the homing endonuclease I-PpoI. Biochemistry 1999; 38:16178-86. [PMID: 10587440 DOI: 10.1021/bi991452v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Homing endonucleases are distinguished by their ability to catalyze the cleavage of double-stranded DNA with extremely high specificity. I-PpoI endonuclease, a homing endonuclease from the slime mold Physarum polycephalum, is a small enzyme (2 x 20 kDa) of known three-dimensional structure that catalyzes the cleavage of a long target DNA sequence (15 base pairs). Here, a detailed chemical mechanism for catalysis of DNA cleavage by I-PpoI endonuclease is proposed and tested by creating six variants in which active-site residues are replaced with alanine. The side chains of three residues (Arg61, His98, and Asn119) are found to be important for efficient catalysis of DNA cleavage. This finding is consistent with the proposed mechanism in which His98 abstracts a proton from an attacking water molecule bound by an adjacent phosphoryl oxygen, Arg61 and Asn119 stabilize the pentavalent transition state, and Asn119 also binds to the essential divalent metal cation (e.g., Mg(2+) ion), which interacts with the 3'-oxygen leaving group. Because Mg(2+) is required for cleavage of a substrate with a good leaving group (p-nitrophenolate), Mg(2+) likely stabilizes the pentavalent transition state. The pH-dependence of k(cat) for catalysis by I-PpoI reveals a macroscopic pK(a) of 8.4 for titratable groups that modulate product release. I-PpoI appears to be unique among known restriction endonucleases and homing endonucleases in its use of a histidine residue to activate the attacking water molecule for in-line displacement of the 3'-leaving group.
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- S J Mannino
- Department of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706, USA
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Kovall RA, Matthews BW. Type II restriction endonucleases: structural, functional and evolutionary relationships. Curr Opin Chem Biol 1999; 3:578-83. [PMID: 10508668 DOI: 10.1016/s1367-5931(99)00012-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Type II restriction endonucleases are a paradigm for site-specific cleavage of DNA. Recent structural analyses, in particular in the presence of various divalent metals, have shed new insight into the mechanisms of catalysis. In addition, during this past year the crystal structure determinations of MutH, lambda-exonuclease and FokI have revealed that these proteins are also members of the same family.
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- R A Kovall
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physics, 1229 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1229, USA
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Hu D, Crist M, Duan X, Gimble FS. Mapping of a DNA binding region of the PI-sceI homing endonuclease by affinity cleavage and alanine-scanning mutagenesis. Biochemistry 1999; 38:12621-8. [PMID: 10504231 DOI: 10.1021/bi991192h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The PI-SceI protein is a member of the LAGLIDADG family of homing endonucleases that is generated by a protein splicing reaction. PI-SceI has a bipartite domain structure, and the protein splicing and endonucleolytic reactions are catalyzed by residues in domains I and II, respectively. Structural and mutational evidence indicates that both domains mediate DNA binding. Treatment of the protein with trypsin breaks a peptide bond within a disordered region of the endonuclease domain situated between residues Val-270 and Leu-280 and interferes with the ability of this domain to bind DNA. To identify specific residues in this region that are involved in DNA binding and/or catalysis, alanine-scanning mutagenesis was used to create a set of PI-SceI mutant proteins that were assayed for activity. One of these mutants, N281A, was >300-fold less active than wild-type PI-SceI, and two other proteins, R277A and N284A, were completely inactive. These decreases in cleavage activity parallel similar decreases in substrate binding by the endonuclease domains of these mutant proteins. We mapped the approximate position of the disordered region to one of the ends of the 31 base pair PI-SceI recognition sequence using mutant proteins that were substituted with cysteine at residues Asn-274 and Glu-283 and tethered to the chemical nuclease FeBABE. These mutational and affinity cleavage data strongly support a model of PI-SceI docked to its DNA substrate that suggests that one or more residues identified here are responsible for contacting base pair A/T(-)(9), which is essential for substrate binding.
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- D Hu
- Center for Genome Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, and Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, 2121 West Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Davies GP, Martin I, Sturrock SS, Cronshaw A, Murray NE, Dryden DT. On the structure and operation of type I DNA restriction enzymes. J Mol Biol 1999; 290:565-79. [PMID: 10390354 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Type I DNA restriction enzymes are large, molecular machines possessing DNA methyltransferase, ATPase, DNA translocase and endonuclease activities. The ATPase, DNA translocase and endonuclease activities are specified by the restriction (R) subunit of the enzyme. We demonstrate that the R subunit of the Eco KI type I restriction enzyme comprises several different functional domains. An N-terminal domain contains an amino acid motif identical with that forming the catalytic site in simple restriction endonucleases, and changes within this motif lead to a loss of nuclease activity and abolish the restriction reaction. The central part of the R subunit contains amino acid sequences characteristic of DNA helicases. We demonstrate, using limited proteolysis of this subunit, that the helicase motifs are contained in two domains. Secondary structure prediction of these domains suggests a structure that is the same as the catalytic domains of DNA helicases of known structure. The C-terminal region of the R subunit can be removed by elastase treatment leaving a large fragment, stable in the presence of ATP, which can no longer bind to the other subunits of Eco KI suggesting that this domain is required for protein assembly. Considering these results and previous models of the methyltransferase part of these enzymes, a structural and operational model of a type I DNA restriction enzyme is presented.
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- G P Davies
- Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JR, UK
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Reuter M, Schneider-Mergener J, Kupper D, Meisel A, Mackeldanz P, Krüger DH, Schroeder C. Regions of endonuclease EcoRII involved in DNA target recognition identified by membrane-bound peptide repertoires. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:5213-21. [PMID: 9988771 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.8.5213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Target sequence-specific DNA binding regions of the restriction endonuclease EcoRII were identified by screening a membrane-bound EcoRII-derived peptide scan with an EcoRII recognition site (CCWGG) oligonucleotide duplex. Dodecapeptides overlapping by nine amino acids and representing the complete protein were prepared by spot synthesis. Two separate DNA binding regions, amino acids 88-102 and amino acids 256-273, which share the consensus motif KXRXXK, emerged. Screening 570 single substitution analogues obtained by exchanging every residue of both binding sites for all other amino acids demonstrated that replacing basic residues in the consensus motifs significantly reduced DNA binding. EcoRII mutant enzymes generated by substituting alanine or glutamic acid for the consensus lysine residues in DNA binding site I expressed attenuated DNA binding, whereas corresponding substitutions in DNA binding site II caused impaired cleavage, but enzyme secondary structure was unaffected. Furthermore, Glu96, which is part of a potential catalytic motif and also locates to DNA binding site I, was demonstrated to be critical for DNA cleavage and binding. Homology studies of DNA binding site II revealed strong local homology to SsoII (recognition sequence, CCNGG) and patterns of sequence conservation, suggesting the existence of functionally related DNA binding sites in diverse restriction endonucleases with recognition sequences containing terminal C:G or G:C pairs.
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- M Reuter
- Institutes of Virology, Humboldt University Medical School (Charité), D-10098 Berlin, Germany
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Gimble FS, Duan X, Hu D, Quiocho FA. Identification of Lys-403 in the PI-SceI homing endonuclease as part of a symmetric catalytic center. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:30524-9. [PMID: 9804821 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.46.30524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Superposition of the PI-SceI and I-CreI homing endonuclease three-dimensional x-ray structures indicates general similarity between the I-CreI homodimer and the PI-SceI endonuclease domain. Saddle-shaped structures are present in each protein that are proposed to bind DNA. At the putative endonucleolytic active sites, the superposition reveals that two lysine (Lys-301 and Lys-403 in PI-SceI and Lys-98 and Lys-98' in I-CreI) and two aspartic acid residues (Asp-218 and Asp-326 in PI-SceI and Asp-20 and Asp-20' in I-CreI) are related by 2-fold symmetry. The critical role of Lys-301, Asp-218, and Asp-326 in the PI-SceI reaction pathway was reported previously. Here, we demonstrate the significance of the active-site symmetry by showing that alanine substitution at Lys-403 reduces cleavage activity by greater than 50-fold but has little effect on the DNA binding activity of the mutant enzyme. Substitution of Lys-403 with arginine, which maintains the positive charge, has only a modest effect on activity. Interestingly, even though the Lys-301 and Lys-403 residues display pseudosymmetry, PI-SceI mutant proteins with substitutions at these positions have different behaviors. The presence of similar basic and acidic residues in many LAGLIDADG homing endonucleases suggests that these enzymes use a common reaction mechanism to cleave double-stranded DNA.
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- F S Gimble
- Center for Macromolecular Design, Institute of Biosciences and Technology and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A & M University, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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The structure of the LAGLIDADG intron-encoded homing endonuclease I-CreI bound to homing site DNA has been determined. The interface is formed by an extended, concave beta sheet from each enzyme monomer that contacts each DNA half-site, resulting in direct side-chain contacts to 18 of the 24 base pairs across the full-length homing site. The structure indicates that I-CreI is optimized to its role in genetic transposition by exhibiting long site-recognition while being able to cleave many closely related target sequences. DNA cleavage is mediated by a compact pair of active sites in the I-CreI homodimer, each of which contains a separate bound divalent cation.
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- M S Jurica
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
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Argast GM, Stephens KM, Emond MJ, Monnat RJ. I-PpoI and I-CreI homing site sequence degeneracy determined by random mutagenesis and sequential in vitro enrichment. J Mol Biol 1998; 280:345-53. [PMID: 9665841 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Plasmid libraries containing partially randomized cleavage sites for the eukaryotic homing endonucleases I-PpoI and I-CreI were constructed, and sites that could be cleaved by I-PpoI or I-CreI were selectively recovered by successive cycles of cleavage and gel separation followed by religation and growth in Escherichia coli. Twenty-one different I-PpoI-sensitive homing sites, including the native homing site, were isolated. These sites were identical at four nucleotide positions within the 15 bp homing site, had a restricted pattern of base substitutions at the remaining 11 positions and displayed a preference for purines flanking the top strand of the homing site sequence. Twenty-one different I-CreI-sensitive homing sites, including the native site, were isolated. Ten nucleotide positions were identical in homing site variants that were I-CreI-sensitive and required the addition of SDS for efficient cleavage product release. Four of these ten positions were identical in homing sites that did not require SDS for product release. There was a preference for pyrimidines flanking the top strand of the homing site sequence. Three of the 24 I-CreI homing site nucleotide positions apparently lacked informational content, i. e. were permissive of cleavage when occupied by any nucleotide. These results suggest that I-PpoI and I-CreI make a large number of DNA-protein contacts across their homing site sequences, and that different subsets of these contacts may be sufficient to maintain a high degree of sequence-specific homing site recognition and cleavage. The sequential enrichment protocol we used should be useful for defining the sequence degeneracy and informational content of other homing endonuclease target sites.
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- G M Argast
- Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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