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Le ST, Choi S, Lee SW, Kim H, Ahn B. ssDNA reeling is an intermediate step in the reiterative DNA unwinding activity of the WRN-1 helicase. J Biol Chem 2023; 299:105081. [PMID: 37495105 PMCID: PMC10480542 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105081] [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: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023] Open
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RecQ helicases are highly conserved between bacteria and humans. These helicases unwind various DNA structures in the 3' to 5'. Defective helicase activity elevates genomic instability and is associated with predisposition to cancer and/or premature aging. Recent single-molecule analyses have revealed the repetitive unwinding behavior of RecQ helicases from Escherichia coli to humans. However, the detailed mechanisms underlying this behavior are unclear. Here, we performed single-molecule studies of WRN-1 Caenorhabditis elegans RecQ helicase on various DNA constructs and characterized WRN-1 unwinding dynamics. We showed that WRN-1 persistently repeated cycles of DNA unwinding and rewinding with an unwinding limit of 25 to 31 bp per cycle. Furthermore, by monitoring the ends of the displaced strand during DNA unwinding we demonstrated that WRN-1 reels in the ssDNA overhang in an ATP-dependent manner. While WRN-1 reeling activity was inhibited by a C. elegans homolog of human replication protein A, we found that C. elegans replication protein A actually switched the reiterative unwinding activity of WRN-1 to unidirectional unwinding. These results reveal that reeling-in ssDNA is an intermediate step in the reiterative unwinding process for WRN-1 (i.e., the process proceeds via unwinding-reeling-rewinding). We propose that the reiterative unwinding activity of WRN-1 may prevent extensive unwinding, allow time for partner proteins to assemble on the active region, and permit additional modulation in vivo.
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- Son Truong Le
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea; Center for Genomic Integrity, Institute for Basic Science, Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
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Islam F, Purkait D, Mishra PP. Insights into the Dynamics and Helicase Activity of RecD2 of Deinococcus radiodurans during DNA Repair: A Single-Molecule Perspective. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:4351-4363. [PMID: 37163679 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c00778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
Abstract
While the double helix is the most stable conformation of DNA inside cells, its transient unwinding and subsequent partial separation of the two complementary strands yields an intermediate single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). The ssDNA is involved in all major DNA transactions such as replication, transcription, recombination, and repair. The process of DNA unwinding and translocation is shouldered by helicases that transduce the chemical energy derived from nucleotide triphosphate (NTP) hydrolysis to mechanical energy and utilize it to destabilize hydrogen bonds between complementary base pairs. Consequently, a comprehensive understanding of the molecular mechanisms of these enzymes is essential. In the last few decades, a combination of single-molecule techniques (force-based manipulation and visualization) have been employed to study helicase action. These approaches have allowed researchers to study the single helicase-DNA complex in real-time and the free energy landscape of their interaction together with the detection of conformational intermediates and molecular heterogeneity during the course of helicase action. Furthermore, the unique ability of these techniques to resolve helicase motion at nanometer and millisecond spatial and temporal resolutions, respectively, provided surprising insights into their mechanism of action. This perspective outlines the contribution of single-molecule methods in deciphering molecular details of helicase activities. It also exemplifies how each technique was or can be used to study the helicase action of RecD2 in recombination DNA repair.
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- Farhana Islam
- Single Molecule Biophysics Lab, Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai 400094, India
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- Single Molecule Biophysics Lab, Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai 400094, India
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- Single Molecule Biophysics Lab, Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai 400094, India
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Shin S, Hyun K, Lee J, Joo D, Kulikowicz T, Bohr V, Kim J, Hohng S. Werner syndrome protein works as a dimer for unwinding and replication fork regression. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 51:337-348. [PMID: 36583333 PMCID: PMC9841404 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac1200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2022] [Revised: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The determination of the oligomeric state of functional enzymes is essential for the mechanistic understanding of their catalytic activities. RecQ helicases have diverse biochemical activities, but it is still unclear how their activities are related to their oligomeric states. We use single-molecule multi-color fluorescence imaging to determine the oligomeric states of Werner syndrome protein (WRN) during its unwinding and replication fork regression activities. We reveal that WRN binds to a forked DNA as a dimer, and unwinds it without any change of its oligomeric state. In contrast, WRN binds to a replication fork as a tetramer, and is dimerized during activation of replication fork regression. By selectively inhibiting the helicase activity of WRN on specific strands, we reveal how the active dimers of WRN distinctly use the energy of ATP hydrolysis for repetitive unwinding and replication fork regression.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Section on DNA repair, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Section on DNA repair, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +82 2 880 6593;
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Bandyopadhyay D, Mishra PP. Revealing the DNA Unwinding Activity and Mechanism of Fork Reversal by RecG While Exposed to Variants of Stalled Replication-fork at Single-Molecular Resolution. J Mol Biol 2022; 434:167822. [PMID: 36108776 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167822] [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: 01/27/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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RecG, belonging to the category of Superfamily-2 plays a vital role in rescuing different kinds of stalled fork. The elemental mechanism of the helicase activity of RecG with several non-homologous stalled fork structures resembling intermediates formed during the process of DNA repair has been investigated in the present study to capture the dynamic stages of genetic rearrangement. The functional characterization has been exemplified through quantifying the response of the substrate in terms of their molecular heterogeneity and dynamical response by employing single-molecule fluorescence methods. An elevated processivity of RecG is observed for the stalled fork where progression of lagging daughter strand is ahead as compared to that of the leading strand. Through precise alteration of its function in terms of unwinding, depending upon the substrate DNA, RecG catalyzes the formation of Holliday junction from a stalled fork DNA. RecG is found to adopt an asymmetric mode of locomotion to unwind the lagging daughter strand for facilitating formation of Holliday junction that acts as a suitable intermediate for recombinational repair pathway. Our results emphasize the mechanism adopted by RecG during its 'sliding back' mode along the lagging daughter strand to be 'active translocation and passive unwinding'. This also provide clues as to how this helicase decides and controls the mode of translocation along the DNA to unwind.
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- Debolina Bandyopadhyay
- Single Molecule Biophysics Lab, Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India; Homi Bhaba National Institute, Mumbai, India. https://twitter.com/DebolinaBandyo2
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- Single Molecule Biophysics Lab, Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India; Homi Bhaba National Institute, Mumbai, India.
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Sun Z, Wang Y, Bianco PR, Lyubchenko YL. Dynamics of the PriA Helicase at Stalled DNA Replication Forks. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:4299-4307. [PMID: 33881864 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c11225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The DNA helicase PriA is a key protein for restarting stalled DNA replication forks in bacteria. With 3' to 5' helicase activity, PriA is important in primosome assembly. We used atomic force microscopy (AFM) and specifically employed time-lapse AFM to visualize the interaction of PriA with two DNA substrates. The results show that most of the PriA molecules are observed bound at the fork. However, PriA is capable of translocating over distances of about 400 bp. There is a preference for the long-range translocation of PriA depending on the fork type. For a fork with the nascent leading strand as single-stranded DNA (ssDNA; F4 substrate), PriA translocates preferentially on the parental arm of the fork. For the substrate F14, which contains an additional ssDNA segment between the parental and lagging arms (5 nt gap), PriA translocates on both the parental and lagging strand arms. These data suggest that transient formation of the single-stranded regions during the DNA replication can change the selection of the DNA duplex by PriA. Translocation of the helicase was directly visualized by time-lapse AFM imaging, which revealed that PriA can switch strands during translocation. These novel features of PriA shed new light on the mechanisms of PriA interaction with stalled replication forks.
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- Zhiqiang Sun
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-6025, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-6025, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-6025, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-6025, United States
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Gartner A, Engebrecht J. DNA repair, recombination, and damage signaling. Genetics 2021; 220:6522877. [PMID: 35137093 PMCID: PMC9097270 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyab178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 10/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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DNA must be accurately copied and propagated from one cell division to the next, and from one generation to the next. To ensure the faithful transmission of the genome, a plethora of distinct as well as overlapping DNA repair and recombination pathways have evolved. These pathways repair a large variety of lesions, including alterations to single nucleotides and DNA single and double-strand breaks, that are generated as a consequence of normal cellular function or by external DNA damaging agents. In addition to the proteins that mediate DNA repair, checkpoint pathways have also evolved to monitor the genome and coordinate the action of various repair pathways. Checkpoints facilitate repair by mediating a transient cell cycle arrest, or through initiation of cell suicide if DNA damage has overwhelmed repair capacity. In this chapter, we describe the attributes of Caenorhabditis elegans that facilitate analyses of DNA repair, recombination, and checkpoint signaling in the context of a whole animal. We review the current knowledge of C. elegans DNA repair, recombination, and DNA damage response pathways, and their role during development, growth, and in the germ line. We also discuss how the analysis of mutational signatures in C. elegans is helping to inform cancer mutational signatures in humans.
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- Anton Gartner
- Department for Biological Sciences, IBS Center for Genomic Integrity, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 689-798, Republic of Korea,Corresponding author: (A.G.); (J.E.)
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA,Corresponding author: (A.G.); (J.E.)
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Teng FY, Wang TT, Guo HL, Xin BG, Sun B, Dou SX, Xi XG, Hou XM. The HRDC domain oppositely modulates the unwinding activity of E. coli RecQ helicase on duplex DNA and G-quadruplex. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:17646-17658. [PMID: 33454004 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.015492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2020] [Revised: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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RecQ family helicases are highly conserved from bacteria to humans and have essential roles in maintaining genome stability. Mutations in three human RecQ helicases cause severe diseases with the main features of premature aging and cancer predisposition. Most RecQ helicases shared a conserved domain arrangement which comprises a helicase core, an RecQ C-terminal domain, and an auxiliary element helicase and RNaseD C-terminal (HRDC) domain, the functions of which are poorly understood. In this study, we systematically characterized the roles of the HRDC domain in E. coli RecQ in various DNA transactions by single-molecule FRET. We found that RecQ repetitively unwinds the 3'-partial duplex and fork DNA with a moderate processivity and periodically patrols on the ssDNA in the 5'-partial duplex by translocation. The HRDC domain significantly suppresses RecQ activities in the above transactions. In sharp contrast, the HRDC domain is essential for the deep and long-time unfolding of the G4 DNA structure by RecQ. Based on the observations that the HRDC domain dynamically switches between RecA core- and ssDNA-binding modes after RecQ association with DNA, we proposed a model to explain the modulation mechanism of the HRDC domain. Our findings not only provide new insights into the activities of RecQ on different substrates but also highlight the novel functions of the HRDC domain in DNA metabolisms.
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- Fang-Yuan Teng
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China; Experimental Medicine Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China; Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Key Laboratory of Luzhou, and Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Nephropathy, and Academician (Expert) Workstation of Sichuan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China; LBPA, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
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Branched unwinding mechanism of the Pif1 family of DNA helicases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:24533-24541. [PMID: 31744872 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915654116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Members of the Pif1 family of helicases function in multiple pathways that involve DNA synthesis: DNA replication across G-quadruplexes; break-induced replication; and processing of long flaps during Okazaki fragment maturation. Furthermore, Pif1 increases strand-displacement DNA synthesis by DNA polymerase δ and allows DNA replication across arrays of proteins tightly bound to DNA. This is a surprising feat since DNA rewinding or annealing activities limit the amount of single-stranded DNA product that Pif1 can generate, leading to an apparently poorly processive helicase. In this work, using single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer approaches, we show that 2 members of the Pif1 family of helicases, Pif1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pfh1 from Schizosaccharomyces pombe, unwind double-stranded DNA by a branched mechanism with 2 modes of activity. In the dominant mode, only short stretches of DNA can be processively and repetitively opened, with reclosure of the DNA occurring by mechanisms other than strand-switching. In the other less frequent mode, longer stretches of DNA are unwound via a path that is separate from the one leading to repetitive unwinding. Analysis of the kinetic partitioning between the 2 different modes suggests that the branching point in the mechanism is established by conformational selection, controlled by the interaction of the helicase with the 3' nontranslocating strand. The data suggest that the dominant and repetitive mode of DNA opening of the helicase can be used to allow efficient DNA replication, with DNA synthesis on the nontranslocating strand rectifying the DNA unwinding activity.
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