EFFICIENT REMOVAL OF URACIL FROM G-CENTER-DOT-U MISPAIRS BY THE MISMATCH-SPECIFIC THYMINE DNA GLYCOSYLASE FROM HELA-CELLS

被引:150
作者
NEDDERMANN, P [1 ]
JIRICNY, J [1 ]
机构
[1] IST RIC BIOL MOLEC P ANGELETTI, DEPT BIOCHEM, I-00040 POMEZIA, ITALY
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D O I
10.1073/pnas.91.5.1642
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The uracil DNA glycosylases (EC 3.2.2.3) characterized to date remove uracil from DNA irrespective of whether it is base paired with adenine or mispaired with guanine in double-stranded substrates or whether it is found in single stranded DNA. We report here the characterization of uracil glycosylase activity that can remove the base solely from a mispair with guanine. It does not recognize uracil either in A.U pairs or in single-stranded substrates. The enzyme, a 55-kDa polypeptide, was previously characterized as a mismatch-specific thymine DNA glycosylase and was thought to be responsible solely for the correction (to G.C) of G.T mispairs that arise as a result of spontaneous hydrolytic deamination of 5-methylcytosine to thymine. Given the broader substrate specificity of the enzyme (in addition to uracil and thymine, the protein can also remove 5-bromouracil from mispairs with guanine), we propose that its biological role in vivo may also include the correction of a subset of G.U mispairs inefficiently removed by the more abundant ubiquitous uracil glycosylases, such as those arising from cytosine deamination in G+C-rich regions of the genome.
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页码:1642 / 1646
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