scholarly journals Bacteriophage-T4 and Micrococcus luteus UV endonucleases are not endonucleases but β-elimination and sometimes βδ-elimination catalysts

1989 ◽  
Vol 259 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Bailly ◽  
B Sente ◽  
W G Verly
Keyword(s):  
Enzyme Preparation ◽  
Micrococcus Luteus ◽  
Bacteriophage T4 ◽  
Pyrimidine Dimer ◽  
Elimination Reaction ◽  
Ap Sites ◽  
Beta Elimination ◽  
Ap Site ◽  
Polynucleotide Chain

Bacteriophage-T4 UV endonuclease nicks the C(3′)-O-P bond 3′ to AP (apurinic or apyrimidinic) sites by a beta-elimination reaction. The breakage of this bond is sometimes followed by the nicking of the C(5′)-O-P bond 5′ to the AP site, leaving a 3′-phosphate end; delta-elimination is proposed as a mechanism to explain this second reaction. The AP site formed when this enzyme acts on a pyrimidine dimer in a polynucleotide chain undergoes the same nicking reactions. Micrococcus luteus UV endonuclease also nicks the C(3′)-O-P bond 3′ to AP sites by a beta-elimination reaction. No subsequent delta-elimination was observed, but this might be due to the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol in the enzyme preparation.

scholarly journals Repair of abasic sites by mammalian cell extracts

1994 ◽  
Vol 304 (3) ◽  
pp. 699-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Frosina ◽  
P Fortini ◽  
O Rossi ◽  
F Carrozzino ◽  
A Abbondandolo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Pyrimidine Dimer ◽  
Repair Synthesis ◽  
Repair Patch ◽  
Cell Extracts ◽  
Pyrimidine Dimers ◽  
Ap Sites ◽  
Ap Site

Hamster cell extracts that perform repair synthesis on covalently closed circular DNA containing pyrimidine dimers, were used to study the repair of apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites and methoxyamine (MX)-modified AP sites. Plasmid molecules were heat-treated at pH 5 and incubated with MX when required. The amount of damage introduced ranged from 0.2 to 0.9 AP sites/kb. Extracts were prepared from the Chinese hamster ovary CHO-9 cell line and from its derivative, 43-3B clone which is mutated in the nucleotide excision repair (NER) ERCC1 gene. AP and MX-AP sites stimulated repair synthesis by CHO-9 cell extracts. The level of synthesis correlated with the number of lesions and was of similar magnitude to the repair stimulated by 4.3 u.v. photoproducts/kb. Repair of AP and MX-AP sites was faster than the repair of u.v. damage and was independent of ERCC1 gene product. The high level of repair replication was due to a very efficient and rapid incision of plasmids carrying AP or MX-AP sites, performed by abundant AP endonucleases present in the extract. The calculated average repair patch sizes were: 7 nucleotides per AP site; 10 nucleotides per MX-AP site; 28 nucleotides per (6-4) u.v. photoproduct or cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer. The data indicate that AP and MX-AP sites are very efficiently repaired by base-excision repair in mammalian cells and suggest that MX-AP sites may also be processed via alternative repair mechanisms.

UV endonuclease V from bacteriophage T4 catalyzes DNA strand cleavage at aldehydic abasic sites by a syn .beta.-elimination reaction

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (20) ◽  
pp. 8029-8030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijit Mazumder ◽  
John A. Gerlt ◽  
Lois Rabow ◽  
Michael J. Absalon ◽  
JoAnne Stubbe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bacteriophage T4 ◽  
Elimination Reaction ◽  
Abasic Sites ◽  
Endonuclease V ◽  
Beta Elimination ◽  
Dna Strand

scholarly journals DNA glycosylases in the base excision repair of DNA

1997 ◽  
Vol 325 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans E. KROKAN ◽  
Rune STANDAL ◽  
Geir SLUPPHAUG
Keyword(s):  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Active Sites ◽  
Catalytic Mechanism ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Bacteriophage T4 ◽  
Pyrimidine Dimer ◽  
Dna Glycosylases ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Base Excision ◽  
Ap Site

A wide range of cytotoxic and mutagenic DNA bases are removed by different DNA glycosylases, which initiate the base excision repair pathway. DNA glycosylases cleave the N-glycosylic bond between the target base and deoxyribose, thus releasing a free base and leaving an apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site. In addition, several DNA glycosylases are bifunctional, since they also display a lyase activity that cleaves the phosphodiester backbone 3′ to the AP site generated by the glycosylase activity. Structural data and sequence comparisons have identified common features among many of the DNA glycosylases. Their active sites have a structure that can only bind extrahelical target bases, as observed in the crystal structure of human uracil-DNA glycosylase in a complex with double-stranded DNA. Nucleotide flipping is apparently actively facilitated by the enzyme. With bacteriophage T4 endonuclease V, a pyrimidine-dimer glycosylase, the enzyme gains access to the target base by flipping out an adenine opposite to the dimer. A conserved helix–hairpin–helix motif and an invariant Asp residue are found in the active sites of more than 20 monofunctional and bifunctional DNA glycosylases. In bifunctional DNA glycosylases, the conserved Asp is thought to deprotonate a conserved Lys, forming an amine nucleophile. The nucleophile forms a covalent intermediate (Schiff base) with the deoxyribose anomeric carbon and expels the base. Deoxyribose subsequently undergoes several transformations, resulting in strand cleavage and regeneration of the free enzyme. The catalytic mechanism of monofunctional glycosylases does not involve covalent intermediates. Instead the conserved Asp residue may activate a water molecule which acts as the attacking nucleophile.

scholarly journals The multiple activities of Escherichia coli endonuclease IV and the extreme lability of 5′-terminal base-free deoxyribose 5-phosphates

1989 ◽  
Vol 259 (3) ◽  
pp. 761-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Bailly ◽  
W G Verly
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Half Life ◽  
Elimination Reaction ◽  
Ap Endonuclease ◽  
Exonuclease Iii ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Beta Elimination ◽  
Ap Site

Escherichia coli endonuclease IV hydrolyses the C(3′)-O-P bond 5′ to a 3′-terminal base-free deoxyribose. It also hydrolyses the C(3′)-O-P bond 5′ to a 3′-terminal base-free 2′,3′-unsaturated sugar produced by nicking 3′ to an AP (apurinic or apyrimidinic) site by beta-elimination; this explains why the unproductive end produced by beta-elimination is converted by the enzyme into a 3′-OH end able to prime DNA synthesis. The action of E. coli endonuclease IV on an internal AP site is more complex: in a first step the C(3′)-O-P bond 5′ to the AP site is hydrolysed, but in a second step the 5′-terminal base-free deoxyribose 5′-phosphate is lost. This loss is due to a spontaneous beta-elimination reaction in which the enzyme plays no role. The extreme lability of the C(3′)-O-P bond 3′ to a 5′-terminal AP site contrasts with the relative stability of the same bond 3′ to an internal AP site; in the absence of beta-elimination catalysts, at 37 degrees C the half-life of the former is about 2 h and that of the latter 200 h. The extreme lability of a 5′-terminal AP site means that, after nicking 5′ to an AP site with an AP endonuclease, in principle no 5′----3′ exonuclease is needed to excise the AP site: it falls off spontaneously. We have repaired DNA containing AP sites with an AP endonuclease (E. coli endonuclease IV or the chromatin AP endonuclease from rat liver), a DNA polymerase devoid of 5′----3′ exonuclease activity (Klenow polymerase or rat liver DNA polymerase beta) and a DNA ligase. Catalysts of beta-elimination, such as spermine, can drastically shorten the already brief half-life of a 5′-terminal AP site; it is what very probably happens in the chromatin of eukaryotic cells. E. coli endonuclease IV also probably participates in the repair of strand breaks produced by ionizing radiations: as E. coli endonuclease VI/exonuclease III, it is a 3′-phosphoglycollatase and also a 3′-phosphatase. The 3′-phosphatase activity of E. coli endonuclease VI/exonuclease III and E. coli endonuclease IV can also be useful when the AP site has been excised by a beta delta-elimination reaction.

scholarly journals The use of thioglycollate to demonstrate DNA AP (apurinic/apyrimidinic-site) lyase activities. Biological consequences of thiol addition to the 5′ product of a β-elimination reaction at an AP site in DNA

1991 ◽  
Vol 273 (3) ◽  
pp. 777-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Bricteux-Grégoire ◽  
W G Verly
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Elimination Reaction ◽  
Ap Endonuclease ◽  
Lyase Activity ◽  
Ap Sites ◽  
Ap Lyase ◽  
Ap Site

Thioglycollate reacts with the 5′ product of AP lyase activity on apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites in DNA. The 3′-terminal thioglycollate-unsaturated sugar 5-phosphate adduct can be released by the use of Escherichia coli endonuclease IV or endonuclease VI, and identified by DEAE-Sephadex chromatography. In contrast, the mammalian AP endonuclease is unable to excise a 3′-terminal thiol-unsaturated sugar adduct; this lesion, which must sometimes occur in vivo, might be irreparable and have pathological consequences.

scholarly journals Escherichia coli endonuclease III is not an endonuclease but a β-elimination catalyst

1987 ◽  
Vol 242 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Bailly ◽  
W G Verly
Keyword(s):  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Exonuclease Activity ◽  
Alkaline Ph ◽  
Sugar Phosphate ◽  
Exonuclease Iii ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Endonuclease Iii ◽  
Ap Sites ◽  
Beta Elimination ◽  
Ap Site

The oligonucleotide [5′-32P]pdT8d(-)dTn, containing an apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site [d(-)], yields three radioactive products when incubated at alkaline pH: two of them, forming a doublet approximately at the level of pdT8dA when analysed by polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis, are the result of the beta-elimination reaction, whereas the third is pdT8p resulting from beta delta-elimination. The incubation of [5′-32P]pdT8d(-)dTn, hybridized with poly(dA), with E. coli endonuclease III yields two radioactive products which have the same electrophoretic behaviour as the doublet obtained by alkaline beta-elimination. The oligonucleotide pdT8d(-) is degraded by the 3′-5′ exonuclease activity of T4 DNA polymerase as well as pdT8dA, showing that a base-free deoxyribose at the 3′ end is not an obstacle for this activity. The radioactive products from [5′-32P]pdT8d(-)dTn cleaved by alkaline beta-elimination or by E. coli endonuclease III are not degraded by the 3‘-5’ exonuclease activity of T4 DNA polymerase. When DNA containing AP sites labelled with 32P 5′ to the base-free deoxyribose labelled with 3H in the 1′ and 2′ positions is degraded by E. coli endonuclease VI (exonuclease III) and snake venom phosphodiesterase, the two radionuclides are found exclusively in deoxyribose 5-phosphate and the 3H/32P ratio in this sugar phosphate is the same as in the substrate DNA. When DNA containing these doubly-labelled AP sites is degraded by alkaline treatment or with Lys-Trp-Lys, followed by E. coli endonuclease VI (exonuclease III), some 3H is found in a volatile compound (probably 3H2O) whereas the 3H/32P ratio is decreased in the resulting sugar phosphate which has a chromatographic behaviour different from that of deoxyribose 5-phosphate. Treatment of the DNA containing doubly-labelled AP sites with E. coli endonuclease III, then with E. coli endonuclease VI (exonuclease III), also results in the loss of 3H and the formation of a sugar phosphate with a lower 3H/32P ratio that behaves chromatographically as the beta-elimination product digested with E. coli endonuclease VI (exonuclease III). From these data, we conclude that E. coli endonuclease III cleaves the phosphodiester bond 3′ to the AP site, but that the cleavage is not a hydrolysis leaving a base-free deoxyribose at the 3′ end as it has been so far assumed. The cleavage might be the result of a beta-elimination analogous to the one produced by an alkaline pH or Lys-Trp-Lys. Thus it would seem that E. coli ‘endonuclease III’ is, after all, not an endonuclease.

scholarly journals Abasic Sites in the Transcribed Strand of Yeast DNA Are Removed by Transcription-Coupled Nucleotide Excision Repair

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (13) ◽  
pp. 3206-3215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayun Kim ◽  
Sue Jinks-Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Nucleotide Excision Repair ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Genome Integrity ◽  
Genetic Studies ◽  
Abasic Sites ◽  
Dna And Rna ◽  
Nucleotide Excision ◽  
Ap Sites ◽  
Base Excision ◽  
Ap Site

ABSTRACT Abasic (AP) sites are potent blocks to DNA and RNA polymerases, and their repair is essential for maintaining genome integrity. Although AP sites are efficiently dealt with through the base excision repair (BER) pathway, genetic studies suggest that repair also can occur via nucleotide excision repair (NER). The involvement of NER in AP-site removal has been puzzling, however, as this pathway is thought to target only bulky lesions. Here, we examine the repair of AP sites generated when uracil is removed from a highly transcribed gene in yeast. Because uracil is incorporated instead of thymine under these conditions, the position of the resulting AP site is known. Results demonstrate that only AP sites on the transcribed strand are efficient substrates for NER, suggesting the recruitment of the NER machinery by an AP-blocked RNA polymerase. Such transcription-coupled NER of AP sites may explain previously suggested links between the BER pathway and transcription.

scholarly journals Molecular basis of abasic site sensing in single-stranded DNA by the SRAP domain of E. coli yedK

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (19) ◽  
pp. 10388-10399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Na Wang ◽  
Hongyu Bao ◽  
Liu Chen ◽  
Yanhong Liu ◽  
Yue Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Substrate Binding ◽  
Specific Substrate ◽  
Abasic Site ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Abasic Sites ◽  
Ap Sites ◽  
Ap Site

Abstract HMCES and yedK were recently identified as sensors of abasic sites in ssDNA. In this study, we present multiple crystal structures captured in the apo-, nonspecific-substrate-binding, specific-substrate-binding, and product-binding states of yedK. In combination with biochemical data, we unveil the molecular basis of AP site sensing in ssDNA by yedK. Our results indicate that yedK has a strong preference for AP site-containing ssDNA over native ssDNA and that the conserved Glu105 residue is important for identifying AP sites in ssDNA. Moreover, our results reveal that a thiazolidine linkage is formed between yedK and AP sites in ssDNA, with the residues that stabilize the thiazolidine linkage important for the formation of DNA-protein crosslinks between yedK and the AP sites. We propose that our findings offer a unique platform to develop yedK and other SRAP domain-containing proteins as tools for detecting abasic sites in vitro and in vivo.

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