| Autor: |
Pavlova AV; Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia., Savitskaya VY; Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia., Dolinnaya NG; Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia., Monakhova MV; Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia., Litvinova AV; Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia., Kubareva EA; Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia., Zvereva MI; Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia. |
| Abstrakt: |
G-quadruplexes (G4s) are a unique class of noncanonical DNAs that play a key role in cellular processes and neoplastic transformation. Herein, we focused on the promoter region of human TERT oncogene, whose product is responsible for the immortality of cancer cells. It has been shown by chemical probing and spectroscopic methods that synthetic 96-nt DNAs modeling the wild-type G-rich strand of the hTERT promoter and its variants with G>A point substitutions corresponding to somatic driver mutations fold into three stacked parallel G4s with sites of local G4 destabilization caused by G>A substitutions in the G4 motif. These models were used to elucidate how the hTERT multiG4 affects the binding affinity and functional responses of two key proteins, MutS and MutL, involved in the initial stage of DNA mismatch repair (MMR) in Escherichiacoli and Neisseriagonorrhoeae with different MMR mechanisms. We have shown for the first time that (i) point substitutions do not affect the effective binding of these proteins to the hTERT G4 structure, and (ii) the endonuclease activity of MutL from N. gonorrhoeae is significantly suppressed by the stable G4 scaffold. It is likely that some of the genomic instability associated with G4 may be related to the blockage of human intrinsic methyl-independent MMR attempting to operate near G4 structures. |
