Interlocking activities of DNA polymerase β in the base excision repair pathway.
Interlocking activities of DNA polymerase β in the base excision repair pathway.
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2118940119
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发表时间:
2022-03-08
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Suo Z
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文献类型:
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作者:
Kumar A;Reed AJ;Zahurancik WJ;Daskalova SM;Hecht SM;Suo Z
Base excision repair (BER) is one of the major DNA repair pathways used to fix a myriad of cellular DNA lesions. The enzymes involved in BER, including DNA polymerase β (Polβ), have been identified and characterized, but how they act together to efficiently perform BER has not been fully understood. Through gel electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, and kinetic analysis, we discovered that the two enzymatic activities of Polβ can be interlocked, rather than functioning independently from each other, when processing DNA intermediates formed in BER. The finding prompted us to hypothesize a modified BER pathway. Through conventional and time-resolved X-ray crystallography, we solved 11 high-resolution crystal structures of cross-linked Polβ complexes and proposed a detailed chemical mechanism for Polβ’s 5′-deoxyribose-5-phosphate lyase activity. Base excision repair (BER) is a major cellular pathway for DNA damage repair. During BER, DNA polymerase β (Polβ) is hypothesized to first perform gap-filling DNA synthesis by its polymerase activity and then cleave a 5′-deoxyribose-5-phosphate (dRP) moiety via its dRP lyase activity. Through gel electrophoresis and kinetic analysis of partial BER reconstitution, we demonstrated that gap-filling DNA synthesis by the polymerase activity likely occurred after Schiff base formation but before β-elimination, the two chemical reactions catalyzed by the dRP lyase activity. The Schiff base formation and β-elimination intermediates were trapped by sodium borohydride reduction and identified by mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography. Presteady-state kinetic analysis revealed that cross-linked Polβ (i.e., reduced Schiff base) exhibited a 17-fold higher polymerase efficiency than uncross-linked Polβ. Conventional and time-resolved X-ray crystallography of cross-linked Polβ visualized important intermediates for its dRP lyase and polymerase activities, leading to a modified chemical mechanism for the dRP lyase activity. The observed interlocking enzymatic activities of Polβ allow us to propose an altered mechanism for the BER pathway, at least under the conditions employed. Plausibly, the temporally coordinated activities at the two Polβ active sites may well be the reason why Polβ has both active sites embedded in a single polypeptide chain. This proposed pathway suggests a corrected facet of BER and DNA repair, and may enable alternative chemical strategies for therapeutic intervention, as Polβ dysfunction is a key element common to several disorders.
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影响因子:
64.8
作者:
Freudenthal, Bret D.;Beard, William A.;Perera, Lalith;Shock, David D.;Kim, Taejin;Schlick, Tamar;Wilson, Samuel H.
通讯作者:
Wilson, Samuel H.
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Beard WA;Wilson SH
通讯作者:
Wilson SH
DOI:
10.1038/nsb902
发表时间:
2003-03-01
期刊:
NATURE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
影响因子:
--
作者:
Fromme, JC;Bruner, SD;Verdine, GL
通讯作者:
Verdine, GL
影响因子:
5.6
作者:
Brown, Jessica A.;Duym, Wade W.;Suo, Zucai
通讯作者:
Suo, Zucai
影响因子:
14.9
作者:
Dianov GL;Hübscher U
通讯作者:
Hübscher U