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A type IB topoisomerase with DNA repair activities.


ABSTRACT: Previously we have characterized type IB DNA topoisomerase V (topo V) in the hyperthermophile Methanopyrus kandleri. The enzyme has a powerful topoisomerase activity and is abundant in M. kandleri. Here we report two characterizations of topo V. First, we found that its N-terminal domain has sequence homology with both eukaryotic type IB topoisomerases and the integrase family of tyrosine recombinases. The C-terminal part of the sequence includes 12 repeats, each repeat consisting of two similar but distinct helix-hairpin-helix motifs; the same arrangement is seen in recombination protein RuvA and mammalian DNA polymerase beta. Second, on the basis of sequence homology between topo V and polymerase beta, we predict and demonstrate that topo V possesses apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site-processing activities that are important in base excision DNA repair: (i) it incises the phosphodiester backbone at the AP site, and (ii) at the AP endonuclease cleaved AP site, it removes the 5' 2-deoxyribose 5-phosphate moiety so that a single-nucleotide gap with a 3'-hydroxyl and 5'-phosphate can be filled by a DNA polymerase. Topo V is thus the prototype for a new subfamily of type IB topoisomerases and is the first example of a topoisomerase with associated DNA repair activities.

SUBMITTER: Belova GI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC33414 | biostudies-literature | 2001 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A type IB topoisomerase with DNA repair activities.

Belova G I GI   Prasad R R   Kozyavkin S A SA   Lake J A JA   Wilson S H SH   Slesarev A I AI  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20010515 11


Previously we have characterized type IB DNA topoisomerase V (topo V) in the hyperthermophile Methanopyrus kandleri. The enzyme has a powerful topoisomerase activity and is abundant in M. kandleri. Here we report two characterizations of topo V. First, we found that its N-terminal domain has sequence homology with both eukaryotic type IB topoisomerases and the integrase family of tyrosine recombinases. The C-terminal part of the sequence includes 12 repeats, each repeat consisting of two similar  ...[more]

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