Crystal structure of the crenarchaeal ExoIII AP endonuclease SisExoIII reveals a conserved disulfide bond endowing the protein with thermostability
| Autor: | Jinfeng Ni, Lichuan Gu, Yulong Shen, Zenglin Yuan, Zhou Yan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Molecular 0301 basic medicine Exonuclease Protein Conformation Biophysics Crystallography X-Ray Biochemistry Sulfolobus AP endonuclease 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Enzyme Stability DNA-(Apurinic or Apyrimidinic Site) Lyase AP site Amino Acid Sequence Molecular Biology Thermostability biology Mutagenesis Temperature Cell Biology Base excision repair biology.organism_classification Exodeoxyribonucleases 030104 developmental biology chemistry biology.protein Eukaryote Sequence Alignment DNA |
| Zdroj: | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 490:774-779 |
| ISSN: | 0006-291X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.06.116 |
| Popis: | AP endonuclease recognizes and cleaves apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites and plays a critical role in base excision repair. Many ExoIII and EndoIV family AP endonucleases have been characterized both biochemically and structurally in Eukaryote and Bacteria. However, relatively fewer have been studied in Euryarchaeota and there is no such report on an AP endonuclease from Crenarchaeota. Here we report, for the first time, the crystal structure of a crenarchaeal ExoIII AP endonuclease, SisExoIII, from Sulfolobus islandicus REY15A. SisExoIII comprises a two-layer core formed by 10 β-sheets and a shell formed by 9 surrounding α-helices. A disulfide bond connecting β8 and β9 is formed by Cys142 and Cys215. This intra-molecular linkage is conserved among crenarchaeal ExoIII homologs and site-directed mutagenesis revealed that it endows the protein with thermostability, however, disruption of the disulfide bond only has a slight effect on the AP endonuclease activity. We also observed that several key residues within the catalytic center including conserved Glu35 and Asn9 show different conformation compared with known ExoIII proteins and form various intra-molecular salt bridges. The protein possesses three putative DNA binding loops with higher flexibility and hydrophobicity than those of ExoIIIs from other organisms. These features may result in low AP endonuclease activity and defect of exonuclease activity of SisExoIII. The study has deepened our understanding in the structural basis of crenarchaeal ExoIII catalysis and clarified a role of the disulfide bond in maintaining protein thermostability. |
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