Publication in Nucleic Acids Research by Professor HUA Yuejin's Laboratory, Institute of Biophysics

Title: Participation of RecJ in the base excision repair pathway of Deinococcus radiodurans

Kaiying Cheng, Ying Xu, Xuanyi Chen, Huizhi Lu, Yuan He, Liangyan Wang, Yuejin Hua

Abstract

RecJ reportedly participates in the base excision repair (BER) pathway, but structural and functional data are scarce. Herein, the Deinococcus radiodurans RecJ (drRecJ) deletion strain exhibited extreme sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide and methyl-methanesulphonate, as well as a high spontaneous mutation rate and an accumulation of unrepaired abasic sites in vivo, indicating the involvement of drRecJ in the BER pathway. The binding affinity and nuclease activity preference of drRecJ toward DNA substrates containing a 5-P-dSpacer group, a 5-deoxyribose-phosphate (dRP) mimic, were established. A 1.9 Å structure of drRecJ in complex with 5-P-dSpacer-modified single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) revealed a 5-monophosphate binding pocket and occupancy of 5-dRP in the drRecJ nuclease core. The mechanism for RecJ 5-dRP catalysis was explored using structural and biochemical data, and the results implied that drRecJ is not a canonical 5-dRP lyase. Furthermore, in vitro reconstitution assays indicated that drRecJ tends to participate in the long-patch BER pathway rather than the short-patch BER pathway.

Linkhttps://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkaa714/5900117

 


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