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Thymine DNA glycosylase exhibits negligible affinity for nucleobases that it removes from DNA

Journal Article · · Nucleic Acids Research
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv890· OSTI ID:1625547
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  1. Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (United States). School of Medicine. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; DOE/OSTI
  2. Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (United States). School of Medicine. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  3. Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (United States). School of Medicine. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (United States). Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center
  4. Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (United States). School of Medicine. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (United States). Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center; Inst. for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, MD (United States). Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics
Thymine DNA Glycosylase (TDG) performs essential functions in maintaining genetic integrity and epigenetic regulation. Initiating base excision repair, TDG removes thymine from mutagenic G·T mispairs caused by 5-methylcytosine (mC) deamination and other lesions including uracil (U) and 5-hydroxymethyluracil (hmU). In DNA demethylation, TDG excises 5-formylcytosine (fC) and 5- carboxylcytosine (caC), which are generated from mC by Tet (ten–eleven translocation) enzymes. Using improved crystallization conditions, we solved high resolution (up to 1.45 A) structures of TDG enzyme– ' product complexes generated from substrates including G·U, G·T, G·hmU, G·fC and G·caC. The structures reveal many new features, including key water mediated enzyme–substrate interactions. Together with nuclear magnetic resonance experiments, the structures demonstrate that TDG releases the excised base from its tight product complex with abasic DNA, contrary to previous reports. Moreover, DNAfree TDG exhibits no significant binding to free nucleobases (U, T, hmU), indicating a Kd >> 10 mM. The structures reveal a solvent-filled channel to the active site, which might facilitate dissociation of the excised base and enable caC excision, which involves solvent-mediated acid catalysis. Dissociation of the excised base allows TDG to bind the beta rather than the alpha anomer of the abasic sugar, which might stabilize the enzyme–product complex.
Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science Division
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1625547
Journal Information:
Nucleic Acids Research, Journal Name: Nucleic Acids Research Journal Issue: 19 Vol. 43; ISSN 0305-1048
Publisher:
Oxford University PressCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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