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Structural mechanism of ATP-dependent DNA binding and DNA end bridging by eukaryotic Rad50.


ABSTRACT: The Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 (MRN) complex is a central factor in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). The ATP-dependent mechanisms of how MRN detects and endonucleolytically processes DNA ends for the repair by microhomology-mediated end-joining or further resection in homologous recombination are still unclear. Here, we report the crystal structures of the ATP?S-bound dimer of the Rad50(NBD)(nucleotide-binding domain) from the thermophilic eukaryote Chaetomium thermophilum(Ct) in complex with either DNA or CtMre11(RBD)(Rad50-binding domain) along with small-angle X-ray scattering and cross-linking studies. The structure and DNA binding motifs were validated by DNA binding experiments in vitro and mutational analyses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in vivo Our analyses provide a structural framework for the architecture of the eukaryotic Mre11-Rad50 complex. They show that a Rad50 dimer binds approximately 18 base pairs of DNA along the dimer interface in anATP-dependent fashion or bridges two DNA ends with a preference for 3' overhangs. Finally, our results may provide a general framework for the interaction of ABC ATPase domains of the Rad50/SMC/RecN protein family with DNA.

SUBMITTER: Seifert FU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4818761 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structural mechanism of ATP-dependent DNA binding and DNA end bridging by eukaryotic Rad50.

Seifert Florian Ulrich FU   Lammens Katja K   Stoehr Gabriele G   Kessler Brigitte B   Hopfner Karl-Peter KP  

The EMBO journal 20160219 7


The Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 (MRN) complex is a central factor in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). The ATP-dependent mechanisms of how MRN detects and endonucleolytically processes DNA ends for the repair by microhomology-mediated end-joining or further resection in homologous recombination are still unclear. Here, we report the crystal structures of the ATPγS-bound dimer of the Rad50(NBD)(nucleotide-binding domain) from the thermophilic eukaryote Chaetomium thermophilum(Ct) in complex wit  ...[more]

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