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D'Ordine AM, Jogl G, Sedivy JM. Identification and characterization of small molecule inhibitors of the LINE-1 retrotransposon endonuclease. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3883. [PMID: 38719805 PMCID: PMC11078990 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48066-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
Abstract
The long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) retrotransposon is the only active autonomously replicating retrotransposon in the human genome. L1 harms the cell by inserting new copies, generating DNA damage, and triggering inflammation. Therefore, L1 inhibition could be used to treat many diseases associated with these processes. Previous research has focused on inhibition of the L1 reverse transcriptase due to the prevalence of well-characterized inhibitors of related viral enzymes. Here we present the L1 endonuclease as another target for reducing L1 activity. We characterize structurally diverse small molecule endonuclease inhibitors using computational, biochemical, and biophysical methods. We also show that these inhibitors reduce L1 retrotransposition, L1-induced DNA damage, and inflammation reinforced by L1 in senescent cells. These inhibitors could be used for further pharmacological development and as tools to better understand the life cycle of this element and its impact on disease processes.
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- Alexandra M D'Ordine
- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- Center on the Biology of Aging, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
- Center on the Biology of Aging, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
- Center on the Biology of Aging, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
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Kaur R, Frederickson A, Wetmore SD. Elucidation of the catalytic mechanism of a single-metal dependent homing endonuclease using QM and QM/MM approaches: the case study of I- PpoI. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:8919-8931. [PMID: 38426850 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp06201e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Homing endonucleases (HEs) are highly specific DNA cleaving enzymes, with I-PpoI having been suggested to use a single metal to accelerate phosphodiester bond cleavage. Although an I-PpoI mechanism has been proposed based on experimental structural data, no consensus has been reached regarding the roles of the metal or key active site amino acids. This study uses QM cluster and QM/MM calculations to provide atomic-level details of the I-PpoI catalytic mechanism. Minimal QM cluster and large-scale QM/MM models demonstrate that the experimentally-proposed pathway involving direct Mg2+ coordination to the substrate coupled with leaving group protonation through a metal-activated water is not feasible due to an inconducive I-PpoI active site alignment. Despite QM cluster models of varying size uncovering a pathway involving leaving group protonation by a metal-activated water, indirect (water-mediated) metal coordination to the substrate is required to afford this pathway, which renders this mechanism energetically infeasible. Instead, QM cluster models reveal that the preferred pathway involves direct Mg2+-O3' coordination to stabilize the charged substrate and assist leaving group departure, while H98 activates the water nucleophile. These calculations also underscore that both catalytic residues that directly interact with the substrate and secondary amino acids that position or stabilize these residues are required for efficient catalysis. QM/MM calculations on the solvated enzyme-DNA complex verify the preferred mechanism, which is fully consistent with experimental kinetic, structural, and mutational data. The fundamental understanding of the I-PpoI mechanism of action, gained from the present work can be used to further explore potential uses of this enzyme in biotechnology and medicine, and direct future computational investigations of other members of the understudied HE family.
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- Rajwinder Kaur
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada.
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Kaur R, Wetmore SD. Is Metal Stabilization of the Leaving Group Required or Can Lysine Facilitate Phosphodiester Bond Cleavage in Nucleic Acids? A Computational Study of EndoV. J Chem Inf Model 2024; 64:944-959. [PMID: 38253321 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Endonuclease V (EndoV) is a single-metal-dependent enzyme that repairs deaminated DNA nucleobases in cells by cleaving the phosphodiester bond, and this enzyme has proven to be a powerful tool in biotechnology and medicine. The catalytic mechanism used by EndoV must be understood to design new disease detection and therapeutic solutions and further exploit the enzyme in interdisciplinary applications. This study has used a mixed molecular dynamics (MD) and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach to compare eight distinct catalytic pathways and provides the first proposed mechanism for bacterial EndoV. The calculations demonstrate that mechanisms involving either direct or indirect metal coordination to the leaving group of the substrate previously proposed for other nucleases are unlikely for EndoV, regardless of the general base (histidine, aspartate, and substrate phosphate moiety). Instead, distinct catalytic pathways are characterized for EndoV that involve K139 stabilizing the leaving group, a metal-coordinated water stabilizing the transition structure, and either H214 or a substrate phosphate group activating the water nucleophile. In silico K139A and H214A mutational results support the newly proposed roles of these residues. Although this is a previously unseen combination of general base, general acid, and metal-binding architecture for a one-metal-dependent endonuclease, our proposed catalytic mechanisms are fully consistent with experimental kinetic, structural, and mutational data. In addition to substantiating a growing body of literature, suggesting that one metal is enough to catalyze P-O bond cleavage in nucleic acids, this new fundamental understanding of the catalytic function will promote the exploration of new and improved applications of EndoV.
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- Rajwinder Kaur
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada
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Das D, Duncton MAJ, Georgiadis TM, Pellicena P, Clark J, Sobol RW, Georgiadis MM, King-Underwood J, Jobes DV, Chang C, Gao Y, Deacon AM, Wilson DM. A New Drug Discovery Platform: Application to DNA Polymerase Eta and Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease 1. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:16637. [PMID: 38068959 PMCID: PMC10706420 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242316637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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The ability to quickly discover reliable hits from screening and rapidly convert them into lead compounds, which can be verified in functional assays, is central to drug discovery. The expedited validation of novel targets and the identification of modulators to advance to preclinical studies can significantly increase drug development success. Our SaXPyTM ("SAR by X-ray Poses Quickly") platform, which is applicable to any X-ray crystallography-enabled drug target, couples the established methods of protein X-ray crystallography and fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) with advanced computational and medicinal chemistry to deliver small molecule modulators or targeted protein degradation ligands in a short timeframe. Our approach, especially for elusive or "undruggable" targets, allows for (i) hit generation; (ii) the mapping of protein-ligand interactions; (iii) the assessment of target ligandability; (iv) the discovery of novel and potential allosteric binding sites; and (v) hit-to-lead execution. These advances inform chemical tractability and downstream biology and generate novel intellectual property. We describe here the application of SaXPy in the discovery and development of DNA damage response inhibitors against DNA polymerase eta (Pol η or POLH) and apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1 or APEX1). Notably, our SaXPy platform allowed us to solve the first crystal structures of these proteins bound to small molecules and to discover novel binding sites for each target.
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- Debanu Das
- XPose Therapeutics, Inc., San Carlos, CA 94070, USA
- Accelero Biostructures, Inc., San Carlos, CA 94070, USA
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- Mitchell Cancer Institute and Department of Pharmacology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36604, USA
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- Mitchell Cancer Institute and Department of Pharmacology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36604, USA
- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Warrant Alpert Medical School & Legorreta Cancer Center, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- XPose Therapeutics, Inc., San Carlos, CA 94070, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- XPose Therapeutics, Inc., San Carlos, CA 94070, USA
- Mid-Atlantic BioTherapeutics, Inc., Doylestown, PA 18902, USA
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- Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, USA
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- Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, USA
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- XPose Therapeutics, Inc., San Carlos, CA 94070, USA
- Accelero Biostructures, Inc., San Carlos, CA 94070, USA
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- XPose Therapeutics, Inc., San Carlos, CA 94070, USA
- Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University, 3500 Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Belgium & Boost Scientific, 3550 Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
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Hoitsma NM, Norris J, Khoang TH, Kaushik V, Chadda R, Antony E, Hedglin M, Freudenthal BD. Mechanistic insight into AP-endonuclease 1 cleavage of abasic sites at stalled replication fork mimics. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:6738-6753. [PMID: 37264933 PMCID: PMC10359615 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 05/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023] Open
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Many types of damage, including abasic sites, block replicative DNA polymerases causing replication fork uncoupling and generating ssDNA. AP-Endonuclease 1 (APE1) has been shown to cleave abasic sites in ssDNA. Importantly, APE1 cleavage of ssDNA at a replication fork has significant biological implications by generating double strand breaks that could collapse the replication fork. Despite this, the molecular basis and efficiency of APE1 processing abasic sites at replication forks remain elusive. Here, we investigate APE1 cleavage of abasic substrates that mimic APE1 interactions at stalled replication forks or gaps. We determine that APE1 has robust activity on these substrates, like dsDNA, and report rates for cleavage and product release. X-ray structures visualize the APE1 active site, highlighting an analogous mechanism is used to process ssDNA substrates as canonical APE1 activity on dsDNA. However, mutational analysis reveals R177 to be uniquely critical for the APE1 ssDNA cleavage mechanism. Additionally, we investigate the interplay between APE1 and Replication Protein A (RPA), the major ssDNA-binding protein at replication forks, revealing that APE1 can cleave an abasic site while RPA is still bound to the DNA. Together, this work provides molecular level insights into abasic ssDNA processing by APE1, including the presence of RPA.
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- Nicole M Hoitsma
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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Rai R, Dawodu OI, Johnson SM, Vilseck JZ, Kelley MR, Ziarek JJ, Georgiadis MM. Chemically induced partial unfolding of the multifunctional Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.06.29.547112. [PMID: 37425839 PMCID: PMC10327033 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.29.547112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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Targeting of the multifunctional enzyme apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease I/redox factor 1 (APE1) has produced small molecule inhibitors of both its endonuclease and redox activities. While one of the small molecules, the redox inhibitor APX3330, completed a Phase I clinical trial for solid tumors and a Phase II clinical trial for Diabetic Retinopathy/Diabetic Macular Edema, the mechanism of action for this drug has yet to be fully understood. Here, we demonstrate through HSQC NMR studies that APX3330 induces chemical shift perturbations (CSPs) of both surface and internal residues in a concentration-dependent manner, with a cluster of surface residues defining a small pocket on the opposite face from the endonuclease active site of APE1. Furthermore, APX3330 induces partial unfolding of APE1 as evidenced by a time-dependent loss of chemical shifts for approximately 35% of the residues within APE1 in the HSQC NMR spectrum. Notably, regions that are partially unfolded include adjacent strands within one of two beta sheets that comprise the core of APE1. One of the strands comprises residues near the N-terminal region and a second strand is contributed by the C-terminal region of APE1, which serves as a mitochondrial targeting sequence. These terminal regions converge within the pocket defined by the CSPs. In the presence of a duplex DNA substrate mimic, removal of excess APX3330 resulted in refolding of APE1. Our results are consistent with a reversible mechanism of partial unfolding of APE1 induced by the small molecule inhibitor, APX3330, defining a novel mechanism of inhibition.
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Dinh T, Dao O, Killivalavan A, Ngo D, Lee KH. Crystal structure of the apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease XthA (HP1526 protein) from Helicobacter pylori. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2023; 663:8-15. [PMID: 37116395 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.04.047] [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: 04/13/2023] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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Helicobacter pylori is a bacterium that causes gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and adenocarcinoma while infecting human stomach. In the stomach H. pylori is under stresses caused by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species from host immune response, which causes oxidative DNA damage. The DNA damage in single base is repaired by base excision repair (BER) and/or nucleotide incision repair (NIR) pathways. H. pylori retains a minimal set of enzymes involved in the BER and NIR pathways. The HP1526 protein is a single apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease homologous to E. coli Xth protein but little is known for its structure up to now. In this study, the structure of the recombinant HP1526 protein from H. pylori (HpXthA) has been determined at a high resolution of 1.84 Å. From the structural analysis the HpXthA was found to belong to the Xth-like AP endonuclease family carrying the common fold of a central bilayer β-sheet flanked by α-helices with a divalent metal ion bound. A Mn2+ ion and a 1,3-butanediol were unusually found and modeled around the active site. Structural and sequence comparisons among the AP endonucleases show well-conserved residues for metal and DNA binding and for catalysis. Interestingly, the presence of a small polar residue Ser201 of the HpXthA commonly found in NIR-proficient AP endonucleases instead of an aspartate residue in NIR-deficient enzymes suggests that the HpXthA retain a nucleotide incision repair activity.
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- Thom Dinh
- Department of Convergence Medical Science (BK21Plus), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea; Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Convergence Medical Science (BK21Plus), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea; Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Convergence Medical Science (BK21Plus), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea; Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea; PMBBRC, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52828, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Convergence Medical Science (BK21Plus), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea; Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Convergence Medical Science (BK21Plus), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea; Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea; PMBBRC, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52828, Republic of Korea; Institue of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52727, Republic of Korea.
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Pidugu LS, Servius HW, Sevdalis SE, Cook ME, Varney KM, Pozharski E, Drohat AC. Characterizing inhibitors of human AP endonuclease 1. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0280526. [PMID: 36652434 PMCID: PMC9847973 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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AP endonuclease 1 (APE1) processes DNA lesions including apurinic/apyrimidinic sites and 3´-blocking groups, mediating base excision repair and single strand break repair. Much effort has focused on developing specific inhibitors of APE1, which could have important applications in basic research and potentially lead to clinical anticancer agents. We used structural, biophysical, and biochemical methods to characterize several reported inhibitors, including 7-nitroindole-2-carboxylic acid (CRT0044876), given its small size, reported potency, and widespread use for studying APE1. Intriguingly, NMR chemical shift perturbation (CSP) experiments show that CRT0044876 and three similar indole-2-carboxylic acids bind a pocket distal from the APE1 active site. A crystal structure confirms these findings and defines the pose for 5-nitroindole-2-carboxylic acid. However, dynamic light scattering experiments show the indole compounds form colloidal aggregates that could bind (sequester) APE1, causing nonspecific inhibition. Endonuclease assays show the compounds lack significant APE1 inhibition under conditions (detergent) that disrupt aggregation. Thus, binding of the indole-2-carboxylic acids at the remote pocket does not inhibit APE1 repair activity. Myricetin also forms aggregates and lacks APE1 inhibition under aggregate-disrupting conditions. Two other reported compounds (MLS000552981, MLS000419194) inhibit APE1 in vitro with low micromolar IC50 and do not appear to aggregate in this concentration range. However, NMR CSP experiments indicate the compounds do not bind specifically to apo- or Mg2+-bound APE1, pointing to a non-specific mode of inhibition, possibly DNA binding. Our results highlight methods for rigorous interrogation of putative APE1 inhibitors and should facilitate future efforts to discover compounds that specifically inhibit this important repair enzyme.
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- Lakshmi S. Pidugu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- * E-mail: (EP); (ACD)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- * E-mail: (EP); (ACD)
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Kaur R, Nikkel DJ, Aboelnga MM, Wetmore SD. The Impact of DFT Functional, Cluster Model Size, and Implicit Solvation on the Structural Description of Single-Metal-Mediated DNA Phosphodiester Bond Cleavage: The Case Study of APE1. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:10672-10683. [PMID: 36485014 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Phosphodiester bond hydrolysis in nucleic acids is a ubiquitous reaction that can be facilitated by enzymes called nucleases, which often use metal ions to achieve catalytic function. While a two-metal-mediated pathway has been well established for many enzymes, there is growing support that some enzymes require only one metal for the catalytic step. Using human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (APE1) as a prototypical example and cluster models, this study clarifies the impact of DFT functional, cluster model size, and implicit solvation on single-metal-mediated phosphodiester bond cleavage and provides insight into how to efficiently model this chemistry. Initially, a model containing 69 atoms built from a high-resolution X-ray crystal structure is used to explore the reaction pathway mapped by a range of DFT functionals and basis sets, which provides support for the use of standard functionals (M06-2X and B3LYP-D3) to study this reaction. Subsequently, systematically increasing the model size to 185 atoms by including additional amino acids and altering residue truncation points highlights that small models containing only a few amino acids or β carbon truncation points introduce model strains and lead to incorrect metal coordination. Indeed, a model that contains all key residues (general base and acid, residues that stabilize the substrate, and amino acids that maintain the metal coordination) is required for an accurate structural depiction of the one-metal-mediated phosphodiester bond hydrolysis by APE1, which results in 185 atoms. The additional inclusion of the broader enzyme environment through continuum solvation models has negligible effects. The insights gained in the present work can be used to direct future computational studies of other one-metal-dependent nucleases to provide a greater understanding of how nature achieves this difficult chemistry.
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- Rajwinder Kaur
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada.,Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta 34517, Egypt
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada
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Kaur R, Aboelnga MM, Nikkel DJ, Wetmore SD. The metal dependence of single-metal mediated phosphodiester bond cleavage: a QM/MM study of a multifaceted human enzyme. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:29130-29140. [PMID: 36444615 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04338f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
Nucleases catalyze the cleavage of phosphodiester bonds in nucleic acids using a range of metal cofactors. Although it is well accepted that many nucleases rely on two metal ions, the one-metal mediated pathway is debated. Furthermore, one-metal mediated nucleases maintain activity in the presence of many different metals, but the underlying reasons for this broad metal specificity are unknown. The human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (APE1), which plays a key role in DNA repair, transcription regulation, and gene expression, is a prototypical example of a one-metal dependent nuclease. Although Mg2+ is the native metal cofactor, APE1 remains catalytically active in the presence of several metals, with the rate decreasing as Mg2+ > Mn2+ > Ni2+ > Zn2+, while Ca2+ completely abolished the activity. The present work uses quantum mechanics-molecular mechanics techniques to map APE1-facilitated phosphodiester bond hydrolysis in the presence of these metals. The structural differences in stationary points along the reaction pathway shed light on the interplay between several factors that allow APE1 to remain catalytically active for various metals, with the trend in the barrier heights correlating with the experimentally reported APE1 catalytic activity. In contrast, Ca2+ significantly changes the metal coordination and active site geometry, and thus completely inhibits catalysis. Our work thereby provides support for the controversial single-metal mediated phosphodiester bond cleavage and clarifies uncertainties regarding the role of the metal and metal identity in this important reaction. This information is key for future medicinal and biotechnological applications including disease diagnosis and treatment, and protein engineering.
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- Rajwinder Kaur
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4, Canada.
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Whitaker AM, Stark WJ, Freudenthal B. Processing oxidatively damaged bases at DNA strand breaks by APE1. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 50:9521-9533. [PMID: 36018803 PMCID: PMC9458457 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2021] [Revised: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/31/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Reactive oxygen species attack the structure of DNA, thus altering its base-pairing properties. Consequently, oxidative stress-associated DNA lesions are a major source of the mutation load that gives rise to cancer and other diseases. Base excision repair (BER) is the pathway primarily tasked with repairing DNA base damage, with apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (APE1) having both AP-endonuclease and 3' to 5' exonuclease (exo) DNA cleavage functions. The lesion 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) can enter the genome as either a product of direct damage to the DNA, or through polymerase insertion at the 3'-end of a DNA strand during replication or repair. Importantly, 3'-8-oxoG impairs the ligation step of BER and therefore must be removed by the exo activity of a surrogate enzyme to prevent double stranded breaks and cell death. In the present study, we use X-ray crystallography to characterize the exo activity of APE1 on 3'-8-oxoG substrates. These structures support a unified APE1 exo mechanism that differs from its more canonical AP-endonuclease activity. In addition, through complementation of the structural data with enzyme kinetics and binding studies employing both wild-type and rationally designed APE1 mutants, we were able to identify and characterize unique protein: DNA contacts that specifically mediate 8-oxoG removal by APE1.
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- Amy M Whitaker
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
- Molecular Therapeutics Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
- The University of Kansas Cancer Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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Bakman AS, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev M, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. Pre-steady-state kinetic and mutational insights into mechanisms of endo- and exonuclease DNA processing by mutant forms of human AP endonuclease. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2022; 1866:130198. [PMID: 35809816 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2022.130198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease APE1 catalyzes endonucleolytic hydrolysis of phosphodiester bonds on the 5' side of structurally unrelated damaged nucleotides in DNA or native nucleotides in RNA. APE1 additionally possesses 3'-5'-exonuclease, 3'-phosphodiesterase, and 3'-phosphatase activities. According to structural data, endo- and exonucleolytic cleavage of DNA is executed in different complexes when the excised residue is everted from the duplex or placed within the intrahelical DNA cavity without nucleotide flipping. In this study, we investigated the functions of residues Arg177, Arg181, Tyr171 and His309 in the APE1 endo- and exonucleolytic reactions. The interaction between residues Arg177 and Met270, which was hypothesized recently to be a switch for endo- and exonucleolytic catalytic mode regulation, was verified by pre-steady-state kinetic analysis of the R177A APE1 mutant. The function of another DNA-binding-site residue, Arg181, was analyzed too; it changed its conformation when enzyme-substrate and enzyme-product complexes were compared. Mutation R181A significantly facilitated the product dissociation stage and only weakly affected DNA-binding affinity. Moreover, R181A reduced the catalytic rate constant severalfold due to a loss of contact with a phosphate group. Finally, the protonation/deprotonation state of residues Tyr171 and His309 in the catalytic reaction was verified by their substitution. Mutations Y171F and H309A inhibited the chemical step of the AP endonucleolytic reaction by several orders of magnitude with retention of capacity for (2R,3S)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran-containing-DNA binding and without changes in the pH dependence profile of AP endonuclease activity, indicating that deprotonation of these residues is likely not important for the catalytic reaction.
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- Artemiy S Bakman
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Group «Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis», CNRS UMR9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Group «Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis», CNRS UMR9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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Comparative Analysis of Exo- and Endonuclease Activities of APE1-like Enzymes. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23052869. [PMID: 35270011 PMCID: PMC8911113 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23052869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP)-endonucleases are multifunctional enzymes that are required for cell viability. AP-endonucleases incise DNA 5′ to an AP-site; can recognize and process some damaged nucleosides; and possess 3′-phosphodiesterase, 3′-phosphatase, and endoribonuclease activities. To elucidate the mechanism of substrate cleavage in detail, we analyzed the effect of mono- and divalent metal ions on the exo- and endonuclease activities of four homologous APE1-like endonucleases (from an insect (Rrp1), amphibian (xAPE1), fish (zAPE1), and from humans (hAPE1)). It was found that the enzymes had similar patterns of dependence on metal ions’ concentrations in terms of AP-endonuclease activity, suggesting that the main biological function (AP-site cleavage) was highly conserved among evolutionarily distant species. The efficiency of the 3′-5′ exonuclease activity was the highest in hAPE1 among these enzymes. In contrast, the endoribonuclease activity of the enzymes could be ranked as hAPE1 ≈ zAPE1 ≤ xAPE1 ≤ Rrp1. Taken together, the results revealed that the tested enzymes differed significantly in their capacity for substrate cleavage, even though the most important catalytic and substrate-binding amino acid residues were conserved. It can be concluded that substrate specificity and cleavage efficiency were controlled by factors external to the catalytic site, e.g., the N-terminal domain of these enzymes.
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Wu Z, Duan H, Cheng Y, Guo D, Peng L, Hu Y, Hu J, Luo T. A novel ligand swing-mediated active site coordination change of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1: A potential cytotoxic mechanism of nickel ion in the base excision repair. Chem Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2022.111456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Miller I, Totrov M, Korotchkina L, Kazyulkin DN, Gudkov AV, Korolev S. Structural dissection of sequence recognition and catalytic mechanism of human LINE-1 endonuclease. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:11350-11366. [PMID: 34554261 PMCID: PMC8565326 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Revised: 09/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (L1) is an autonomous non-LTR retrotransposon comprising ∼20% of the human genome. L1 self-propagation causes genomic instability and is strongly associated with aging, cancer and other diseases. The endonuclease domain of L1’s ORFp2 protein (L1-EN) initiates de novo L1 integration by nicking the consensus sequence 5′-TTTTT/AA-3′. In contrast, related nucleases including structurally conserved apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) are non-sequence specific. To investigate mechanisms underlying sequence recognition and catalysis by L1-EN, we solved crystal structures of L1-EN complexed with DNA substrates. This showed that conformational properties of the preferred sequence drive L1-EN’s sequence-specificity and catalysis. Unlike APE1, L1-EN does not bend the DNA helix, but rather causes ‘compression’ near the cleavage site. This provides multiple advantages for L1-EN’s role in retrotransposition including facilitating use of the nicked poly-T DNA strand as a primer for reverse transcription. We also observed two alternative conformations of the scissile bond phosphate, which allowed us to model distinct conformations for a nucleophilic attack and a transition state that are likely applicable to the entire family of nucleases. This work adds to our mechanistic understanding of L1-EN and related nucleases and should facilitate development of L1-EN inhibitors as potential anticancer and antiaging therapeutics.
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- Ian Miller
- Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA
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- Genome Protection, Inc., Buffalo, NY 14203, USA.,Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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- Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA
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Inhibition of APE1/Ref-1 for Neovascular Eye Diseases: From Biology to Therapy. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms221910279. [PMID: 34638620 PMCID: PMC8508814 DOI: 10.3390/ijms221910279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nvAMD), retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and other eye diseases are characterized by retinal and/or choroidal neovascularization, ultimately causing vision loss in millions of people worldwide. nvAMD and PDR are associated with aging and the number of those affected is expected to increase as the global median age and life expectancy continue to rise. With this increase in prevalence, the development of novel, orally bioavailable therapies for neovascular eye diseases that target multiple pathways is critical, since current anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) treatments, delivered by intravitreal injection, are accompanied with tachyphylaxis, a high treatment burden and risk of complications. One potential target is apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1/reduction-oxidation factor 1 (APE1/Ref-1). The multifunctional protein APE1/Ref-1 may be targeted via inhibitors of its redox-regulating transcription factor activation activity to modulate angiogenesis, inflammation, oxidative stress response and cell cycle in neovascular eye disease; these inhibitors also have neuroprotective effects in other tissues. An APE1/Ref-1 small molecule inhibitor is already in clinical trials for cancer, PDR and diabetic macular edema. Efforts to develop further inhibitors are underway. APE1/Ref-1 is a novel candidate for therapeutically targeting neovascular eye diseases and alleviating the burden associated with anti-VEGF intravitreal injections.
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Wilson DM, Deacon AM, Duncton MAJ, Pellicena P, Georgiadis MM, Yeh AP, Arvai AS, Moiani D, Tainer JA, Das D. Fragment- and structure-based drug discovery for developing therapeutic agents targeting the DNA Damage Response. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2021; 163:130-142. [PMID: 33115610 PMCID: PMC8666131 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2020.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Cancer will directly affect the lives of over one-third of the population. The DNA Damage Response (DDR) is an intricate system involving damage recognition, cell cycle regulation, DNA repair, and ultimately cell fate determination, playing a central role in cancer etiology and therapy. Two primary therapeutic approaches involving DDR targeting include: combinatorial treatments employing anticancer genotoxic agents; and synthetic lethality, exploiting a sporadic DDR defect as a mechanism for cancer-specific therapy. Whereas, many DDR proteins have proven "undruggable", Fragment- and Structure-Based Drug Discovery (FBDD, SBDD) have advanced therapeutic agent identification and development. FBDD has led to 4 (with ∼50 more drugs under preclinical and clinical development), while SBDD is estimated to have contributed to the development of >200, FDA-approved medicines. Protein X-ray crystallography-based fragment library screening, especially for elusive or "undruggable" targets, allows for simultaneous generation of hits plus details of protein-ligand interactions and binding sites (orthosteric or allosteric) that inform chemical tractability, downstream biology, and intellectual property. Using a novel high-throughput crystallography-based fragment library screening platform, we screened five diverse proteins, yielding hit rates of ∼2-8% and crystal structures from ∼1.8 to 3.2 Å. We consider current FBDD/SBDD methods and some exemplary results of efforts to design inhibitors against the DDR nucleases meiotic recombination 11 (MRE11, a.k.a., MRE11A), apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1, a.k.a., APEX1), and flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1).
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- David M Wilson
- Hasselt University, Biomedical Research Institute, Diepenbeek, Belgium; Boost Scientific, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium; XPose Therapeutics Inc., San Carlos, CA, USA
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- Accelero Biostructures Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA; XPose Therapeutics Inc., San Carlos, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; XPose Therapeutics Inc., San Carlos, CA, USA
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- Accelero Biostructures Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Accelero Biostructures Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA; XPose Therapeutics Inc., San Carlos, CA, USA.
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Liu TC, Guo KW, Chu JW, Hsiao YY. Understanding APE1 cellular functions by the structural preference of exonuclease activities. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2021; 19:3682-3691. [PMID: 34285771 PMCID: PMC8258793 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.06.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2021] [Revised: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Mammalian apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease 1 (APE1) has versatile enzymatic functions, including redox, endonuclease, and exonuclease activities. APE1 is thus broadly associated with pathways in DNA repair, cancer cell growth, and drug resistance. Unlike its AP site-specific endonuclease activity in Base excision repair (BER), the 3′-5′ exonucleolytic cleavage of APE1 using the same active site exhibits complex substrate selection patterns, which are key to the biological functions. This work aims to integrate molecular structural information and biocatalytic properties to deduce the substrate recognition mechanism of APE1 as an exonuclease and make connection to its diverse functionalities in the cell. In particular, an induced space-filling model emerges in which a bridge-like structure is formed by Arg177 and Met270 (RM bridge) upon substrate binding, causing the active site to adopt a long and narrow product pocket for hosting the leaving group of an AP site or the 3′-end nucleotide. Rather than distinguishing bases as other exonucleases, the hydrophobicity and steric hindrance due to the APE1 product pocket provides selectivity for substrate structures, such as matched or mismatched blunt-ended dsDNA, recessed dsDNA, gapped dsDNA, and nicked dsDNA with 3′-end overhang shorter than 2 nucleotides. These dsDNAs are similar to the native substrates in BER proofreading, BER for trinucleotide repeats (TNR), Nucleotide incision repair (NIR), DNA single-strand breaks (SSB), SSB with damaged bases, and apoptosis. Integration of in vivo studies, in vitro biochemical assays, and structural analysis is thus essential for linking the APE1 exonuclease activity to the specific roles in cellular functions.
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- Tung-Chang Liu
- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30068, Taiwan.,Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30068, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30068, Taiwan.,Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30068, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30068, Taiwan.,Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30068, Taiwan.,Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30068, Taiwan.,Center For Intelligent Drug Systems and Smart Bio-devices (IDSB), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30068, Taiwan.,Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30068, Taiwan.,Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30068, Taiwan.,Center For Intelligent Drug Systems and Smart Bio-devices (IDSB), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.,Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, Center for Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Molecular Mechanisms Regulating the DNA Repair Protein APE1: A Focus on Its Flexible N-Terminal Tail Domain. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22126308. [PMID: 34208390 PMCID: PMC8231204 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22126308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Revised: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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APE1 (DNA (apurinic/apyrimidinic site) endonuclease 1) is a key enzyme of one of the major DNA repair routes, the BER (base excision repair) pathway. APE1 fulfils additional functions, acting as a redox regulator of transcription factors and taking part in RNA metabolism. The mechanisms regulating APE1 are still being deciphered. Structurally, human APE1 consists of a well-characterized globular catalytic domain responsible for its endonuclease activity, preceded by a conformationally flexible N-terminal extension, acquired along evolution. This N-terminal tail appears to play a prominent role in the modulation of APE1 and probably in BER coordination. Thus, it is primarily involved in mediating APE1 localization, post-translational modifications, and protein–protein interactions, with all three factors jointly contributing to regulate the enzyme. In this review, recent insights on the regulatory role of the N-terminal region in several aspects of APE1 function are covered. In particular, interaction of this region with nucleophosmin (NPM1) might modulate certain APE1 activities, representing a paradigmatic example of the interconnection between various regulatory factors.
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Altered APE1 activity on abasic ribonucleotides is mediated by changes in the nucleoside sugar pucker. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2021; 19:3293-3302. [PMID: 34188778 PMCID: PMC8207216 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Revised: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Ribonucleotides (rNTPs) are predicted to be incorporated into the genome at a rate of up to 3 million times per cell division, making rNTPs the most common non-standard nucleotide in the human genome. Typically, misinserted ribonucleotides are repaired by the ribonucleotide excision repair (RER) pathway, which is initiated by RNase H2 cleavage. However, rNTPs are susceptible to spontaneous depurination generating abasic ribonucleotides (rAPs), which are unable to be processed by RNase H2. Additionally, rAPs have been found in nascent RNA and coupled to R-loops. Recent work identified that base excision repair (BER) protein AP-Endonuclease 1 (APE1) is responsible for the initial processing of rAPs embedded in DNA and in R-loops. APE1 is a well characterized AP endonuclease that cleaves 5' of abasic sites, but its ability to cleave at rAPs remains poorly understood. Here, we utilize enzyme kinetics, X-ray crystallography, and molecular dynamics simulations to provide insight into rAP processing by APE1. Enzyme kinetics were used to determine pre-steady-state rates of APE1 cleavage on DNA substrates containing rAP, revealing a decrease in activity compared to cleavage at a canonical deoxy-AP substrate. Using X-ray crystallography, we identified novel contacts between the rAP and the APE1 active site. We demonstrate that the rAP sugar pucker is accommodated in the active site in a C3'-endo conformation, influencing its position and contributing to a decrease in activity compared to the deoxy-AP site. Together, this work provides molecular level insights into rAP processing by APE1 and advances our understanding of ribonucleotide processing within genomic DNA.
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Kuznetsova AA, Gavrilova AA, Novopashina DS, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. Mutational and Kinetic Analysis of APE1 Endoribonuclease Activity. Mol Biol 2021; 55:211-224. [PMID: 33948042 PMCID: PMC8083922 DOI: 10.1134/s0026893321020102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Revised: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) participates in the DNA repair system. It is believed that the main biological function of APE1 is Mg2+-dependent hydrolysis of AP-sites in DNA. On the base of structural data, kinetic studies, and mutation analysis, the key stages of APE1 interaction with damaged DNA were established. It has been shown recently that APE1 can act as an endoribonuclease that catalyzes mRNA hydrolysis at certain pyrimidine–purine sites and thus controls the level of certain transcripts. In addition, the presence of Mg2+ ions was shown to be not required for the endoribonuclease activity of APE1, in contrast to the AP-endonuclease activity. This indicates differences in mechanisms of APE1 catalysis on RNA and DNA substrates, but the reasons for these differences remain unclear. Here, the analysis of endoribonuclease hydrolysis of model RNA substrates with wild type APE1 enzyme and its mutant forms Y171F, R177F, R181A, D210N, N212A, T268D, M270A, and D308A, was performed. It was shown that mutation of Asn212, Asp210, and Tyr171 residues leads to the decrease of AP-endonuclease activity while endoribonuclease activity is retained. Also, T268D and M270A APE1 mutants lose specificity to pyrimidine–purine sequences. R177F and R181A did not show a significant decrease in enzyme activity, whereas D308A demonstrated a decrease of endoribonuclease activity.
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- A A Kuznetsova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.,Novosibirsk National Research State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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Davletgildeeva AT, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev M, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. The Enigma of Substrate Recognition and Catalytic Efficiency of APE1-Like Enzymes. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:617161. [PMID: 33842455 PMCID: PMC8033172 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.617161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Despite significant achievements in the elucidation of the nature of protein-DNA contacts that control the specificity of nucleotide incision repair (NIR) by apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases, the question on how a given nucleotide is accommodated by the active site of the enzyme remains unanswered. Therefore, the main purpose of our study was to compare kinetics of conformational changes of three homologous APE1-like endonucleases (insect Drosophila melanogaster Rrp1, amphibian Xenopus laevis xAPE1, and fish Danio rerio zAPE1) during their interaction with various damaged DNA substrates, i.e., DNA containing an F-site (an uncleavable by DNA-glycosylases analog of an AP-site), 1,N6-ethenoadenosine (εA), 5,6-dihydrouridine (DHU), uridine (U), or the α-anomer of adenosine (αA). Pre-steady-state analysis of fluorescence time courses obtained for the interaction of the APE1-like enzymes with DNA substrates containing various lesions allowed us to outline a model of substrate recognition by this class of enzymes. It was found that the differences in rates of DNA substrates’ binding do not lead to significant differences in the cleavage efficiency of DNA containing a damaged base. The results suggest that the formation of enzyme–substrate complexes is not the key factor that limits enzyme turnover; the mechanisms of damage recognition and cleavage efficacy are related to fine conformational tuning inside the active site.
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- Anastasiia T Davletgildeeva
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.,Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Group "Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis", Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2016, CNRS UMR 9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Group "Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis", Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2016, CNRS UMR 9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Plasmodium Ape1 is a multifunctional enzyme in mitochondrial base excision repair and is required for efficient transition from liver to blood stage infection. DNA Repair (Amst) 2021; 101:103098. [PMID: 33743509 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2021.103098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2020] [Revised: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The malaria parasite has a single mitochondrion which carries multiple tandem repeats of its 6 kb genome encoding three proteins of the electron transport chain. There is little information about DNA repair mechanisms for mitochondrial genome maintenance in Plasmodium spp. Of the two AP-endonucleases of the BER pathway encoded in the parasite nuclear genome, the EndoIV homolog PfApn1 has been identified as a mitochondrial protein with restricted functions. We explored the targeting and biochemical properties of the ExoIII homolog PfApe1. PfApe1 localized in the mitochondrion and exhibited AP-site cleavage, 3'-5' exonuclease, 3'-phosphatase, nucleotide incision repair (NIR) and RNA cleavage activities indicating a wider functional role than PfApn1. The parasite enzyme differed from human APE1 in possessing a large, disordered N-terminal extension. Molecular modelling revealed conservation of structural domains but variations in DNA-interacting residues and an insertion in the α-8 loop suggested differences with APE1. Unlike APE1, where AP-site cleavage and NIR activities could be mutually exclusive based on pH and Mg2+ ion concentration, PfApe1 was optimally active under similar conditions suggesting that it can function both as an AP-endonuclease in BER and directly cleave damaged bases in NIR under similar physiological conditions. To investigate the role of Ape1 in malaria life cycle, we disrupted the gene by double-cross-over homologous recombination. Ape1 knockout (KO) P. berghei parasites showed normal development of blood and mosquito stages. However, inoculation of mice with Ape1 KO salivary gland sporozoites revealed a reduced capacity to initiate blood stage infection. Ape1 KO parasites underwent normal liver stage development until merozoites egressed from hepatocytes. Our results indicated that the delay in pre-patent period was due to the inability of Ape1 KO merosomes to infect erythrocytes efficiently.
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Hoitsma NM, Whitaker AM, Beckwitt EC, Jang S, Agarwal PK, Van Houten B, Freudenthal BD. AP-endonuclease 1 sculpts DNA through an anchoring tyrosine residue on the DNA intercalating loop. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:7345-7355. [PMID: 32542366 PMCID: PMC7367167 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Revised: 05/30/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Base excision repair (BER) maintains genomic stability through the repair of DNA damage. Within BER, AP-endonuclease 1 (APE1) is a multifunctional enzyme that processes DNA intermediates through its backbone cleavage activity. To accomplish these repair activities, APE1 must recognize and accommodate several diverse DNA substrates. This is hypothesized to occur through a DNA sculpting mechanism where structural adjustments of the DNA substrate are imposed by the protein; however, how APE1 uniquely sculpts each substrate within a single rigid active site remains unclear. Here, we utilize structural and biochemical approaches to probe the DNA sculpting mechanism of APE1, specifically by characterizing a protein loop that intercalates the minor groove of the DNA (termed the intercalating loop). Pre-steady-state kinetics reveal a tyrosine residue within the intercalating loop (Y269) that is critical for AP-endonuclease activity. Using X-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations, we determined the Y269 residue acts to anchor the intercalating loop on abasic DNA. Atomic force microscopy reveals the Y269 residue is required for proper DNA bending by APE1, providing evidence for the importance of this mechanism. We conclude that this previously unappreciated tyrosine residue is key to anchoring the intercalating loop and stabilizing the DNA in the APE1 active site.
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- Nicole M Hoitsma
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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- Program in Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.,UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.,Laboratory of DNA Replication, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.,Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Physiological Sciences and High-Performance Computing Center, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
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- Program in Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.,UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.,Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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The role of active-site amino acid residues in the cleavage of DNA and RNA substrates by human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease APE1. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2020; 1864:129718. [PMID: 32858086 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2020.129718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease APE1 is one of participants of the DNA base excision repair pathway. APE1 processes AP-sites and many other types of DNA damage via hydrolysis of the phosphodiester bond on the 5' side of the lesion. APE1 also acts as an endoribonuclease, i.e., can cleave undamaged RNA. METHODS Using pre-steady-state kinetic analysis we examined the role of certain catalytically important amino acids in APE1 enzymatic pathway and described their involvement in the mechanism of the target nucleotide recognition. RESULTS Comparative analysis of the cleavage efficiency of damaged DNAs containing an abasic site, 5,6-dihydrouridine, or α-anomer of adenosine as well as 3'-5'-exonuclease degradation of undamaged DNA and endonuclease hydrolysis of RNA substrates by mutant APE1 enzymes containing a substitution of an active-site amino acid residue (D210N, N212A, T268D, M270A, or D308A) was performed. Detailed pre-steady-state kinetics of conformational changes of the enzyme and of DNA substrate molecules during recognition and cleavage of the abasic site were studied. CONCLUSIONS It was revealed that substitution T268D significantly disturbed initial DNA binding, whereas Asn212 is critical for the DNA-bending stage and catalysis. Substitution D210N increased the binding efficacy and blocked the catalytic reaction, but D308A decreased the binding efficacy owing to disruption of Mg2+ coordination. Finally, the substitution of Met270 also destabilized the enzyme-substrate complex but did not affect the catalytic reaction. SIGNIFICANCE It was found that the tested substitutions of the active-site amino acid residues affected different stages of the complex formation process as well as the catalytic reaction.
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Kuznetsova AA, Novopashina DS, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. Effect of the Substrate Structure and Metal Ions on the Hydrolysis of Undamaged RNA by Human AP Endonuclease APE1. Acta Naturae 2020; 12:74-85. [PMID: 32742730 PMCID: PMC7385091 DOI: 10.32607/actanaturae.10864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease APE1 is one of the participants in the DNA base excision repair. The main biological function of APE1 is to hydrolyze the phosphodiester bond on the 5'-side of the AP sites. It has been shown recently that APE1 acts as an endoribonuclease and can cleave mRNA, thereby controlling the level of some transcripts. The sequences of CA, UA, and UG dinucleotides are the cleavage sites in RNA. In the present work, we performed a comparative analysis of the cleavage efficiency of model RNA substrates with short hairpin structures in which the loop size and the location of the pyrimidine-purine dinucleotide sequence were varied. The effect of various divalent metal ions and pH on the efficiency of the endoribonuclease reaction was analyzed. It was shown that site-specific hydrolysis of model RNA substrates depends on the spatial structure of the substrate. In addition, RNA cleavage occured in the absence of divalent metal ions, which proves that hydrolysis of DNA- and RNA substrates occurs via different catalytic mechanisms.
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- A. A. Kuznetsova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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Reading Targeted DNA Damage in the Active Demethylation Pathway: Role of Accessory Domains of Eukaryotic AP Endonucleases and Thymine-DNA Glycosylases. J Mol Biol 2020:S0022-2836(19)30720-X. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Revised: 11/24/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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López DJ, de Blas A, Hurtado M, García-Alija M, Mentxaka J, de la Arada I, Urbaneja MA, Alonso-Mariño M, Bañuelos S. Nucleophosmin interaction with APE1: Insights into DNA repair regulation. DNA Repair (Amst) 2020; 88:102809. [PMID: 32092641 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.102809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Revised: 01/24/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Nucleophosmin (NPM1), an abundant, nucleolar protein with multiple functions affecting cell homeostasis, has also been recently involved in DNA damage repair. The roles of NPM1 in different repair pathways remain however to be elucidated. NPM1 has been described to interact with APE1 (apurinic apyrimidinic endonuclease 1), a key enzyme of the base excision repair (BER) pathway, which could reflect a direct participation of NPM1 in this route. To gain insight into the possible role(s) of NPM1 in BER, we have explored the interplay between the subnuclear localization of both APE1 and NPM1, the in vitro interaction they establish, the effect of binding to abasic DNA on APE1 conformation, and the modulation by NPM1 of APE1 binding and catalysis on DNA. We have found that, upon oxidative damage, NPM1 is released from nucleoli and locates on patches throughout the chromatin, perhaps co-localizing with APE1, and that this traffic could be mediated by phosphorylation of NPM1 on T199. NPM1 and APE1 form a complex in vitro, involving, apart from the core domain, at least part of the linker region of NPM1, whereas the C-terminal domain is dispensable for binding, which explains that an AML leukemia-related NPM1 mutant with an unfolded C-terminal domain can bind APE1. APE1 interaction with abasic DNA stabilizes APE1 structure, as based on thermal unfolding. Moreover, our data suggest that NPM1, maybe by keeping APE1 in an "open" conformation, favours specific recognition of abasic sites on DNA, competing with off-target associations. Therefore, NPM1 might participate in BER favouring APE1 target selection as well as turnover from incised abasic DNA.
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- David J López
- Biofisika Institute (UPV/EHU, CSIC) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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- Biofisika Institute (UPV/EHU, CSIC) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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- Biofisika Institute (UPV/EHU, CSIC) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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- Biofisika Institute (UPV/EHU, CSIC) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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- Biofisika Institute (UPV/EHU, CSIC) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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- Biofisika Institute (UPV/EHU, CSIC) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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- Biofisika Institute (UPV/EHU, CSIC) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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- Biofisika Institute (UPV/EHU, CSIC) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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- Biofisika Institute (UPV/EHU, CSIC) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain.
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Bazlekowa-Karaban M, Prorok P, Baconnais S, Taipakova S, Akishev Z, Zembrzuska D, Popov AV, Endutkin AV, Groisman R, Ishchenko AA, Matkarimov BT, Bissenbaev A, Le Cam E, Zharkov DO, Tudek B, Saparbaev M. Mechanism of stimulation of DNA binding of the transcription factors by human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1, APE1. DNA Repair (Amst) 2019; 82:102698. [PMID: 31518879 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2019.102698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Revised: 08/11/2019] [Accepted: 08/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Aerobic respiration generates reactive oxygen species (ROS), which can damage nucleic acids, proteins and lipids. A number of transcription factors (TFs) contain redox-sensitive cysteine residues at their DNA-binding sites, hence ROS-induced thiol oxidation strongly inhibits their recognition of the cognate DNA sequences. Major human apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease 1 (APE1/APEX1/HAP-1), referred also as a redox factor 1 (Ref-1), stimulates the DNA binding activities of the oxidized TFs such as AP-1 and NF-κB. Also, APE1 participates in the base excision repair (BER) and nucleotide incision repair (NIR) pathways to remove oxidative DNA base damage. At present, the molecular mechanism underlying the TF-stimulating/redox function of APE1 and its biological role remains disputed. Here, we provide evidence that, instead of direct cysteine reduction in TFs by APE1, APE1-catalyzed NIR and TF-stimulating activities may be based on transient cooperative binding of APE1 to DNA and induction of conformational changes in the helix. The structure of DNA duplex strongly influences NIR and TF-stimulating activities. Homologous plant AP endonucleases lacking conserved cysteine residues stimulate DNA binding of the p50 subunit of NF-κB. APE1 acts synergistically with low-molecular-weight reducing agents on TFs. Finally, APE1 stimulates DNA binding of the redox-insensitive p50-C62S mutant protein. Electron microscopy imaging of APE1 complexes with DNA revealed preferential polymerization of APE1 on the gapped and intrinsically curved DNA duplexes. Molecular modeling offers a structural explanation how full-length APE1 can oligomerize on DNA. In conclusion, we propose that DNA-directed APE1 oligomerization can be regarded as a substitute for diffusion of APE1 along the DNA contour to probe for anisotropic flexibility. APE1 oligomers exacerbate pre-existing distortions in DNA and enable both NIR activity and DNA binding by TFs regardless of their oxidation state.
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- Milena Bazlekowa-Karaban
- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France; Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland; Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France; Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland; Institute of Human Genetics, UMR 9002, CNRS - University of Montpellier, Replication and Genome Dynamics, 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34396, Montpellier, France
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- CNRS UMR8126, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 0530040, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 0530040, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- National laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 0530040, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- CNRS UMR8126, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland; Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France.
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Cabral Medeiros NM, Córdoba-Cañero D, García-Gil CB, Ariza RR, Roldán-Arjona T, Scortecci KC. Characterization of an AP endonuclease from sugarcane - ScARP1. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2019; 514:926-932. [PMID: 31084932 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.04.156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
Plants are sessile organisms that need to cope with different conditions. The Base Excision Repair (BER) pathway is an important mechanism protecting the genome from DNA lesions. Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases are key BER enzymes that process AP sites arising either spontaneously or as BER intermediates. In Arabidopsis there are three AP endonucleases: AtARP1, AtAPE1L, and AtAPE2, and in sugarcane two AtARP1 homologues have been identified: ScARP1 and ScARP3. ScARP1 shares 59% sequence identity with Arabidopsis AtARP. Protein modeling of ScARP1 and AtARP1 revealed conserved active sites and metal binding sites. For biochemical characterisation, recombinant ScARP1 protein displayed AP endonuclease activity both in the presence of MnCl2 or MgCl2 and the optimal temperature for its activity was 37 °C. Under these conditions, 3'-exonuclease, 3'-phosphatase, and 3'-phosphodiesteterase activities were not detectable. We also show that ScARP1 protein is able to complement mutant atarp-/- cell extracts deficient in AP endonuclease activity. These results suggest that AP endonucleases from different plant species preserve AP endonuclease activity. The biochemical characterisation of ScARP1 extends our knowledge of the BER pathway to a monocot crop plant group.
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- Nathalia Maira Cabral Medeiros
- Laboratório de Transformação de Plantas e Microscopia (LTPM), Departamento de Biologia Celular e Genética, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Bioquímica da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Spain
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- Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Spain; Universidad de Córdoba, Spain; Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Spain
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- Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Spain; Universidad de Córdoba, Spain; Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Spain
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- Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Spain; Universidad de Córdoba, Spain; Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Spain
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- Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Spain; Universidad de Córdoba, Spain; Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Spain
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- Laboratório de Transformação de Plantas e Microscopia (LTPM), Departamento de Biologia Celular e Genética, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Bioquímica da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Spain.
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Aboelnga MM, Wetmore SD. Unveiling a Single-Metal-Mediated Phosphodiester Bond Cleavage Mechanism for Nucleic Acids: A Multiscale Computational Investigation of a Human DNA Repair Enzyme. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:8646-8656. [PMID: 31046259 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Mohamed M. Aboelnga
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada
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Trilles R, Beglov D, Chen Q, He H, Wireman R, Reed A, Chennamadhavuni S, Panek JS, Brown LE, Vajda S, Porco JA, Kelley MR, Georgiadis MM. Discovery of Macrocyclic Inhibitors of Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease 1. J Med Chem 2019; 62:1971-1988. [PMID: 30653918 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) is an essential base excision repair enzyme that is upregulated in a number of cancers, contributes to resistance of tumors treated with DNA-alkylating or -oxidizing agents, and has recently been identified as an important therapeutic target. In this work, we identified hot spots for binding of small organic molecules experimentally in high resolution crystal structures of APE1 and computationally through the use of FTMAP analysis ( http://ftmap.bu.edu/ ). Guided by these hot spots, a library of drug-like macrocycles was docked and then screened for inhibition of APE1 endonuclease activity. In an iterative process, hot-spot-guided docking, characterization of inhibition of APE1 endonuclease, and cytotoxicity of cancer cells were used to design next generation macrocycles. To assess target selectivity in cells, selected macrocycles were analyzed for modulation of DNA damage. Taken together, our studies suggest that macrocycles represent a promising class of compounds for inhibition of APE1 in cancer cells.
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- Richard Trilles
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD) , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD) , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD) , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD) , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD) , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Purdue School of Science , Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis , Indianapolis , Indiana 46202 , United States
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Zhai J, Zhao M, Cao X, Li M, Zhao M. Metal-Ion-Responsive Bionanocomposite for Selective and Reversible Enzyme Inhibition. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:16925-16928. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- Junqiu Zhai
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Characterization of biochemical properties of an apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease from Helicobacter pylori. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0202232. [PMID: 30110394 PMCID: PMC6093668 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases play critical roles in the repair of abasic sites and strand breaks in DNA. Complete genome sequences of Helicobacter pylori reveal that this bacterial specie has a single AP endonuclease. An H. pylori homolog of Xth (HpXth) is a member of exonuclease III family, which is represented by Escherichia coli Xth. Currently, it remains unknown whether this single AP endonuclease has DNA repair activities similar to those of its counterpart in E. coli and other bacteria. We report that HpXth possesses efficient AP site cleavage, 3’-repair phosphodiesterase, and 3’-phosphatase activities but not the nucleotide incision repair function. Optimal reaction conditions for HpXth’s AP endonuclease activity are low ionic strength, high Mg2+ concentration, pH in the range 7–8, and temperature 30 °C. The kinetic parameters measured under steady-state conditions showed that HpXth removes the AP site, 3’-blocking sugar-phosphate, and 3’-terminal phosphate in DNA strand breaks with good efficiency (kcat/KM = 1240, 44, and 5,4 μM–1·min–1, respectively), similar to that of E. coli Xth. As expected, the presence of HpXth protein in AP endonuclease—deficient E. coli xth nfo strain significantly reduced the sensitivity to an alkylating agent and H2O2. Mutation of active site residue D144 in HpXth predicted to be essential for catalysis resulted in a complete loss of enzyme activities. Several important structural features of HpXth were uncovered by homology modeling and phylogenetic analysis. Our data show the DNA substrate specificity of H. pylori AP endonuclease and suggest that HpXth counteracts the genotoxic effects of DNA damage generated by endogenous and host-imposed factors.
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Fairlamb MS, Whitaker AM, Freudenthal BD. Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease 1 processing of AP sites with 5' mismatches. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 2018; 74:760-768. [PMID: 30082511 PMCID: PMC6079627 DOI: 10.1107/s2059798318003340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2017] [Accepted: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Despite the DNA duplex being central to biological functions, many intricacies of this molecule, including the dynamic nature of mismatched base pairing, are still unknown. The unique conformations adopted by DNA mismatches can provide insight into the forces at play between nucleotides. Moreover, DNA-binding proteins apply their own individualized steric and electrochemical influences on the nucleotides that they interact with, further altering base-pairing conformations. Here, seven X-ray crystallographic structures of the human nuclease apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease 1 (APE1) in complex with its substrate target flanked by a 5' mismatch are reported. The structures reveal how APE1 influences the conformations of a variety of different mismatched base pairs. Purine-purine mismatches containing a guanine are stabilized by a rotation of the guanine residue about the N-glycosidic bond to utilize the Hoogsteen edge for hydrogen bonding. Interestingly, no rotation of adenine, the other purine, is observed. Mismatches involving both purine and pyrimidine bases adopt wobble conformations to accommodate the mismatch. Pyrimidine-pyrimidine mismatches also wobble; however, the smaller profile of a pyrimidine base results in a gap between the Watson-Crick faces that is reduced by a C1'-C1' compression. These results advance our understanding of mismatched base pairing and the influence of a bound protein.
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- Max S. Fairlamb
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66016, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66016, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66016, USA
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Batebi H, Dragelj J, Imhof P. Role of AP-endonuclease (Ape1) active site residues in stabilization of the reactant enzyme-DNA complex. Proteins 2018; 86:439-453. [PMID: 29344998 DOI: 10.1002/prot.25460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2017] [Revised: 01/08/2018] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (Ape1) is an important metal-dependent enzyme in the base excision repair mechanism, responsible for the backbone cleavage of abasic DNA through a phosphate hydrolysis reaction. Molecular dynamics simulations of Ape1 complexed to its substrate DNA performed for models containing 1 or 2 Mg2+ -ions as cofactor located at different positions show a complex with 1 metal ion bound on the leaving group site of the scissile phosphate to be the most likely reaction-competent conformation. Active-site residue His309 is found to be protonated based on pKa calculations and the higher conformational stability of the Ape1-DNA substrate complex compared to scenarios with neutral His309. Simulations of the D210N mutant further support the prevalence of protonated His309 and strongly suggest Asp210 as the general base for proton acceptance by a nucleophilic water molecule.
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- Hossein Batebi
- Department of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstrasse 36A, Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, Berlin, 14195, Germany
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Whitaker AM, Flynn TS, Freudenthal BD. Molecular snapshots of APE1 proofreading mismatches and removing DNA damage. Nat Commun 2018; 9:399. [PMID: 29374164 PMCID: PMC5785985 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02175-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Accepted: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Human apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease 1 (APE1) is an essential DNA repair enzyme which uses a single active site to process DNA damage via two distinct activities: (1) AP-endonuclease and (2) 3′ to 5′ exonuclease. The AP-endonuclease activity cleaves at AP-sites, while the exonuclease activity excises bulkier 3′ mismatches and DNA damage to generate clean DNA ends suitable for downstream repair. Molecular details of the exonuclease reaction and how one active site can accommodate various toxic DNA repair intermediates remains elusive despite being biologically important. Here, we report multiple high-resolution APE1–DNA structural snapshots revealing how APE1 removes 3′ mismatches and DNA damage by placing the 3′ group within the intra-helical DNA cavity via a non-base flipping mechanism. This process is facilitated by a DNA nick, instability of a mismatched/damaged base, and bending of the DNA. These results illustrate how APE1 cleanses DNA dirty-ends to generate suitable substrates for downstream repair enzymes. The essential DNA repair enzyme apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) has both endonuclease and exonuclease activities. Here, the authors present DNA bound human APE1 crystal structures which give insights into its exonuclease mechanism.
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- Amy M Whitaker
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA.
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Xu RG, Jenkins HT, Chechik M, Blagova EV, Lopatina A, Klimuk E, Minakhin L, Severinov K, Greive SJ, Antson AA. Viral genome packaging terminase cleaves DNA using the canonical RuvC-like two-metal catalysis mechanism. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:3580-3590. [PMID: 28100693 PMCID: PMC5389553 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Bacteriophages and large dsDNA viruses encode sophisticated machinery to translocate their DNA into a preformed empty capsid. An essential part of this machine, the large terminase protein, processes viral DNA into constituent units utilizing its nuclease activity. Crystal structures of the large terminase nuclease from the thermophilic bacteriophage G20c show that it is most similar to the RuvC family of the RNase H-like endonucleases. Like RuvC proteins, the nuclease requires either Mn2+, Mg2+ or Co2+ ions for activity, but is inactive with Zn2+ and Ca2+. High resolution crystal structures of complexes with different metals reveal that in the absence of DNA, only one catalytic metal ion is accommodated in the active site. Binding of the second metal ion may be facilitated by conformational variability, which enables the two catalytic aspartic acids to be brought closer to each other. Structural comparison indicates that in common with the RuvC family, the location of the two catalytic metals differs from other members of the RNase H family. In contrast to a recently proposed mechanism, the available data do not support binding of the two metals at an ultra-short interatomic distance. Thus we postulate that viral terminases cleave DNA by the canonical RuvC-like mechanism.
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- Rui-Gang Xu
- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 123182, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo 143025, Russia
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- Waksman Institute for Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ 08854, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 123182, Russia.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo 143025, Russia.,Waksman Institute for Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ 08854, USA
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- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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Rajagopalan M, Balasubramanian S, Ramaswamy A. Structural dynamics of wild type and mutated forms of human L1 endonuclease and insights into its sequence specific nucleic acid binding mechanism: A molecular dynamics study. J Mol Graph Model 2017; 76:43-55. [PMID: 28704776 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2017.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2017] [Revised: 07/02/2017] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Biomolecular recognition of proteins and nucleic acids is mainly mediated by their structural features and the molecular dynamics simulations approach has been used to explore this recognition processes at the atomic level. L1-Endonuclease, an enzyme involved in L1 retrotransposition, cleaves the TA junction DNA (5'-TTTT/AA-3') and expresses high specificity for target site recognition. The present study highlights the structural features of L1-endonuclease as well as DNA responsible for such specific recognition. Especially, the importance of βB6-B5 hairpin loop in DNA recognition has been elucidated by analyzing the dynamics of Thr192 mutated L1-endonuclease. In addition, simulations of the endonuclease complexed with DNA substrates (sequences having TA and CG junctions) revealed the specificity of L1 endonuclease towards TA junction. Molecular dynamics simulations revealed that the βB6-B5 hairpin loop protrudes well into the minor groove of DNA having TA junction and induces DNA bending such that the width of minor groove is increased. Such endonuclease induced bending of TA junction DNA sequence positions the scissile phosphodiester bond of DNA for cleavage. The innate property of minor groove widening in TA junction than in CG junction is utilized by the βB6-βB5 hairpin loop of endonuclease while recognizing the DNA sequences. The present study also highlights the role of Mg2+ cation in catalysis and attempts to explore the possible target site DNA cleavage mechanism.
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- Muthukumaran Rajagopalan
- Centre for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605014, India
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- Centre for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605014, India
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- Centre for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605014, India.
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Batebi H, Imhof P. Phosphodiester hydrolysis computed for cluster models of enzymatic active sites. Theor Chem Acc 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-016-2020-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Akishev Z, Taipakova S, Joldybayeva B, Zutterling C, Smekenov I, Ishchenko AA, Zharkov DO, Bissenbaev AK, Saparbaev M. The major Arabidopsis thaliana apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease, ARP is involved in the plant nucleotide incision repair pathway. DNA Repair (Amst) 2016; 48:30-42. [PMID: 27836324 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2016.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Revised: 10/25/2016] [Accepted: 10/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases are important DNA repair enzymes involved in two overlapping pathways: DNA glycosylase-initiated base excision (BER) and AP endonuclease-initiated nucleotide incision repair (NIR). In the BER pathway, AP endonucleases cleave DNA at AP sites and 3'-blocking moieties generated by DNA glycosylases, whereas in NIR, the same AP endonucleases incise DNA 5' to a wide variety of oxidized bases. The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana contains three genes encoding homologues of major human AP endonuclease 1 (APE1): Arp, Ape1L and Ape2. It has been shown that all three proteins contain AP site cleavage and 3'-repair phosphodiesterase activities; however, it was not known whether the plant AP endonucleases contain the NIR activity. Here, we report that ARP proteins from Arabidopsis and common wheat (Triticum aestivum) contain NIR and 3'→5' exonuclease activities in addition to their AP endonuclease and 3'-repair phosphodiesterase functions. The steady-state kinetic parameters of reactions indicate that Arabidopsis ARP cleaves oligonucleotide duplexes containing α-anomeric 2'-deoxyadenosine (αdA) and 5,6-dihydrouridine (DHU) with efficiencies (kcat/KM=134 and 7.3 μM-1·min-1, respectively) comparable to those of the human counterpart. However, the ARP-catalyzed 3'-repair phosphodiesterase and 3'→5' exonuclease activities (kcat/KM=314 and 34 μM-1·min-1, respectively) were about 10-fold less efficient as compared to those of APE1. Interestingly, homozygous A. thaliana arp-/- mutant exhibited high sensitivity to methyl methanesulfonate and tert-butyl hydroperoxide, but not to H2O2, suggesting that ARP is a major plant AP endonuclease that removes abasic sites and specific types of oxidative DNA base damage. Taken together, these data establish the presence of the NIR pathway in plants and suggest its possible role in the repair of DNA damage generated by oxidative stress.
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- Zhiger Akishev
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 0530040, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 0530040, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 0530040, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 0530040, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 0530040, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR8200, Université Paris-Sud, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France.
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Structural comparison of AP endonucleases from the exonuclease III family reveals new amino acid residues in human AP endonuclease 1 that are involved in incision of damaged DNA. Biochimie 2016; 128-129:20-33. [PMID: 27343627 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2016.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2015] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Oxidatively damaged DNA bases are substrates for two overlapping repair pathways: DNA glycosylase-initiated base excision repair (BER) and apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease-initiated nucleotide incision repair (NIR). In the BER pathway, an AP endonuclease cleaves DNA at AP sites and 3'-blocking moieties generated by DNA glycosylases, whereas in the NIR pathway, the same AP endonuclease incises DNA 5' to an oxidized base. The majority of characterized AP endonucleases possess classic BER activities, and approximately a half of them can also have a NIR activity. At present, the molecular mechanism underlying DNA substrate specificity of AP endonucleases remains unclear mainly due to the absence of a published structure of the enzyme in complex with a damaged base. To identify critical residues involved in the NIR function, we performed biochemical and structural characterization of Bacillus subtilis AP endonuclease ExoA and compared its crystal structure with the structures of other AP endonucleases: Escherichia coli exonuclease III (Xth), human APE1, and archaeal Mth212. We found conserved amino acid residues in the NIR-specific enzymes APE1, Mth212, and ExoA. Four of these positions were studied by means of point mutations in APE1: we applied substitution with the corresponding residue found in NIR-deficient E. coli Xth (Y128H, N174Q, G231S, and T268D). The APE1-T268D mutant showed a drastically decreased NIR activity and an inverted Mg(2+) dependence of the AP site cleavage activity, which is in line with the presence of an aspartic residue at the equivalent position among other known NIR-deficient AP endonucleases. Taken together, these data show that NIR is an evolutionarily conserved function in the Xth family of AP endonucleases.
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Miroshnikova AD, Kuznetsova AA, Vorobjev YN, Kuznetsov NA, Fedorova OS. Effects of mono- and divalent metal ions on DNA binding and catalysis of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2016; 12:1527-39. [PMID: 27063150 DOI: 10.1039/c6mb00128a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Here, we used stopped-flow fluorescence techniques to conduct a comparative kinetic analysis of the conformational transitions in human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) and in DNA containing an abasic site in the course of their interaction. Effects of monovalent (K(+)) and divalent (Mg(2+), Mn(2+), Ca(2+), Zn(2+), Cu(2+), and Ni(2+)) metal ions on DNA binding and catalytic stages were studied. It was shown that the first step of substrate binding (corresponding to formation of a primary enzyme-substrate complex) does not depend on the concentration (0.05-5.0 mM) or the nature of divalent metal ions. In contrast, the initial DNA binding efficiency significantly decreased at a high concentration (5-250 mM) of monovalent K(+) ions, indicating the involvement of electrostatic interactions in this stage. It was also shown that Cu(2+) ions abrogated the DNA binding ability of APE1, possibly, due to a strong interaction with DNA bases and the sugar-phosphate backbone. In the case of Ca(2+) ions, the catalytic activity of APE1 was lost completely with retention of binding potential. Thus, the enzymatic activity of APE1 is increased in the order Zn(2+) < Ni(2+) < Mn(2+) < Mg(2+). Circular dichroism spectra and calculation of the contact area between APE1 and DNA reveal that Mg(2+) ions stabilize the protein structure and the enzyme-substrate complex.
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- Anastasia D Miroshnikova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine (ICBFM), Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Lavrentyev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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Georgiadis MM, Chen Q, Meng J, Guo C, Wireman R, Reed A, Vasko MR, Kelley MR. Small molecule activation of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 reduces DNA damage induced by cisplatin in cultured sensory neurons. DNA Repair (Amst) 2016; 41:32-41. [PMID: 27078577 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2016.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Revised: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 03/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Although chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) affects approximately 5-60% of cancer patients, there are currently no treatments available in part due to the fact that the underlying causes of CIPN are not well understood. One contributing factor in CIPN may be persistence of DNA lesions resulting from treatment with platinum-based agents such as cisplatin. In support of this hypothesis, overexpression of the base excision repair (BER) enzyme, apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1), reduces DNA damage and protects cultured sensory neurons treated with cisplatin. Here, we address stimulation of APE1's endonuclease through a small molecule, nicorandil, as a means of mimicking the beneficial effects observed for overexpression of APE1. Nicorandil, was identified through high-throughput screening of small molecule libraries and found to stimulate APE1 endonuclease activity by increasing catalytic efficiency approximately 2-fold. This stimulation is primarily due to an increase in kcat. To prevent metabolism of nicorandil, an approved drug in Europe for the treatment of angina, cultured sensory neurons were pretreated with nicorandil and daidzin, an aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 inhibitor, resulting in decreased DNA damage but not altered transmitter release by cisplatin. This finding suggests that activation of APE1 by nicorandil in cisplatin-treated cultured sensory neurons does not imbalance the BER pathway in contrast to overexpression of the kinetically faster R177A APE1. Taken together, our results suggest that APE1 activators can be used to reduce DNA damage induced by cisplatin in cultured sensory neurons, although further studies will be required to fully assess their protective effects.
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- Millie M Georgiadis
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, United States; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, United States; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States; Department of Pediatrics, Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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Capturing snapshots of APE1 processing DNA damage. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2015; 22:924-31. [PMID: 26458045 PMCID: PMC4654669 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 09/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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DNA apurinic-apyrimidinic (AP) sites are prevalent noncoding threats to genomic stability and are processed by AP endonuclease 1 (APE1). APE1 incises the AP-site phosphodiester backbone, generating a DNA-repair intermediate that is potentially cytotoxic. The molecular events of the incision reaction remain elusive, owing in part to limited structural information. We report multiple high-resolution human APE1-DNA structures that divulge new features of the APE1 reaction, including the metal-binding site, the nucleophile and the arginine clamps that mediate product release. We also report APE1-DNA structures with a T-G mismatch 5' to the AP site, representing a clustered lesion occurring in methylated CpG dinucleotides. These structures reveal that APE1 molds the T-G mismatch into a unique Watson-Crick-like geometry that distorts the active site, thus reducing incision. These snapshots provide mechanistic clarity for APE1 while affording a rational framework to manipulate biological responses to DNA damage.
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Reyes A, Zhai X, Morgan KT, Reinhardt CJ, Amyes TL, Richard JP. The activating oxydianion binding domain for enzyme-catalyzed proton transfer, hydride transfer, and decarboxylation: specificity and enzyme architecture. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:1372-82. [PMID: 25555107 PMCID: PMC4311969 DOI: 10.1021/ja5123842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The kinetic parameters for activation of yeast triosephosphate isomerase (ScTIM), yeast orotidine monophosphate decarboxylase (ScOMPDC), and human liver glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (hlGPDH) for catalysis of reactions of their respective phosphodianion truncated substrates are reported for the following oxydianions: HPO3(2-), FPO3(2-), S2O3(2-), SO4(2-) and HOPO3(2-). Oxydianions bind weakly to these unliganded enzymes and tightly to the transition state complex (E·S(‡)), with intrinsic oxydianion Gibbs binding free energies that range from -8.4 kcal/mol for activation of hlGPDH-catalyzed reduction of glycolaldehyde by FPO3(2-) to -3.0 kcal/mol for activation of ScOMPDC-catalyzed decarboxylation of 1-β-d-erythrofuranosyl)orotic acid by HOPO3(2-). Small differences in the specificity of the different oxydianion binding domains are observed. We propose that the large -8.4 kcal/mol and small -3.8 kcal/mol intrinsic oxydianion binding energy for activation of hlGPDH by FPO3(2-) and S2O3(2-), respectively, compared with activation of ScTIM and ScOMPDC reflect stabilizing and destabilizing interactions between the oxydianion -F and -S with the cationic side chain of R269 for hlGPDH. These results are consistent with a cryptic function for the similarly structured oxydianion binding domains of ScTIM, ScOMPDC and hlGPDH. Each enzyme utilizes the interactions with tetrahedral inorganic oxydianions to drive a conformational change that locks the substrate in a caged Michaelis complex that provides optimal stabilization of the different enzymatic transition states. The observation of dianion activation by stabilization of active caged Michaelis complexes may be generalized to the many other enzymes that utilize substrate binding energy to drive changes in enzyme conformation, which induce tight substrate fits.
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- Archie
C. Reyes
- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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