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PCNA and XPF cooperate to distort DNA substrates

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Date
03/2010
Author
Hutton, Richard David
Craggs, Timothy David
White, Malcolm F
Penedo, Carlos
Funder
BBSRC
BBSRC
Grant ID
BB/E014674/1
BB/D001439/1
Keywords
Single-stranded-DNA
Heterotrimeric PCNA
Crystal-structure
Sulfolobus-solfataricus
Flap endonuclease-1
Structural basis
Energy-transfer
Complex
Binding
Repair
QH426 Genetics
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Abstract
XPF is a structure-specific endonuclease that preferentially cleaves 3' DNA flaps during a variety of repair processes. The crystal structure of a crenarchaeal XPF protein bound to a DNA duplex yielded insights into how XPF might recognise branched DNA structures, and recent kinetic data have demonstrated that the sliding clamp PCNA acts as an essential cofactor, possibly by allowing XPF to distort the DNA structure into a proper conformation for efficient cleavage to occur. Here, we investigate the solution structure of the 3'-flap substrate bound to XPF in the presence and absence of PCNA using intramolecular Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET). We demonstrate that recognition of the flap substrate by XPF involves major conformational changes of the DNA, including a 90 degrees kink of the DNA duplex and organization of the single-stranded flap. In the presence of PCNA, there is a further substantial reorganization of the flap substrate bound to XPF, providing a structural basis for the observation that PCNA has an essential catalytic role in this system. The wider implications of these observations for the plethora of PCNA-dependent enzymes are discussed.
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Hutton , R D , Craggs , T D , White , M F & Penedo , C 2010 , ' PCNA and XPF cooperate to distort DNA substrates ' , Nucleic Acids Research , vol. 38 , no. 5 , pp. 1664-1675 . https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1104
Publication
Nucleic Acids Research
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1104
ISSN
0305-1048
Type
Journal article
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© The Author(s) 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2089

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