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Title: Molecular insights into RNA and DNA helicase evolution from the determinants of specificity for a DEAD-box RNA helicase

Abstract

How different helicase families with a conserved catalytic ‘helicase core’ evolved to function on varied RNA and DNA substrates by diverse mechanisms remains unclear. In this study, we used Mss116, a yeast DEAD-box protein that utilizes ATP to locally unwind dsRNA, to investigate helicase specificity and mechanism. Our results define the molecular basis for the substrate specificity of a DEAD-box protein. Additionally, they show that Mss116 has ambiguous substrate-binding properties and interacts with all four NTPs and both RNA and DNA. The efficiency of unwinding correlates with the stability of the ‘closed-state’ helicase core, a complex with nucleotide and nucleic acid that forms as duplexes are unwound. Crystal structures reveal that core stability is modulated by family-specific interactions that favor certain substrates. This suggests how present-day helicases diversified from an ancestral core with broad specificity by retaining core closure as a common catalytic mechanism while optimizing substrate-binding interactions for different cellular functions.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Institutes of Health (NIH)
OSTI Identifier:
1628825
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; GM037951
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
eLife
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher:
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics

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Mallam, Anna L., Sidote, David J., and Lambowitz, Alan M. Molecular insights into RNA and DNA helicase evolution from the determinants of specificity for a DEAD-box RNA helicase. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.7554/elife.04630.
Mallam, Anna L., Sidote, David J., & Lambowitz, Alan M. Molecular insights into RNA and DNA helicase evolution from the determinants of specificity for a DEAD-box RNA helicase. United States. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.04630
Mallam, Anna L., Sidote, David J., and Lambowitz, Alan M. Fri . "Molecular insights into RNA and DNA helicase evolution from the determinants of specificity for a DEAD-box RNA helicase". United States. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.04630. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1628825.
@article{osti_1628825,
title = {Molecular insights into RNA and DNA helicase evolution from the determinants of specificity for a DEAD-box RNA helicase},
author = {Mallam, Anna L. and Sidote, David J. and Lambowitz, Alan M.},
abstractNote = {How different helicase families with a conserved catalytic ‘helicase core’ evolved to function on varied RNA and DNA substrates by diverse mechanisms remains unclear. In this study, we used Mss116, a yeast DEAD-box protein that utilizes ATP to locally unwind dsRNA, to investigate helicase specificity and mechanism. Our results define the molecular basis for the substrate specificity of a DEAD-box protein. Additionally, they show that Mss116 has ambiguous substrate-binding properties and interacts with all four NTPs and both RNA and DNA. The efficiency of unwinding correlates with the stability of the ‘closed-state’ helicase core, a complex with nucleotide and nucleic acid that forms as duplexes are unwound. Crystal structures reveal that core stability is modulated by family-specific interactions that favor certain substrates. This suggests how present-day helicases diversified from an ancestral core with broad specificity by retaining core closure as a common catalytic mechanism while optimizing substrate-binding interactions for different cellular functions.},
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volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2014}
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