Download MendeleyStructural Basis for Finding OG Lesions and Avoiding Undamaged G by the DNA Glycosylase MutY.
Russelburg, L.P., O'Shea Murray, V.L., Demir, M., Knutsen, K.R., Sehgal, S.L., Cao, S., David, S.S., Horvath, M.P.(2020) ACS Chem Biol 15: 93-102
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- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.9b00639
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6Q0C, 6U7T - PubMed Abstract:
The adenine glycosylase MutY selectively initiates repair of OG:A lesions and, by comparison, avoids G:A mispairs. The ability to distinguish these closely related substrates relies on the C-terminal domain of MutY, which structurally resembles MutT. To understand the mechanism for substrate specificity, we crystallized MutY in complex with DNA containing G across from the high-affinity azaribose transition state analogue. Our structure shows that G is accommodated by the OG site and highlights the role of a serine residue in OG versus G discrimination. The functional significance of Ser308 and its neighboring residues was evaluated by mutational analysis, revealing the critical importance of a β loop in the C-terminal domain for mutation suppression in cells, and biochemical performance in vitro . This loop comprising residues Phe307, Ser308, and His309 ( Geobacillus stearothermophilus sequence positions) is conserved in MutY but absent in MutT and other DNA repair enzymes and may therefore serve as a MutY-specific target exploitable by chemical biological probes.
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