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Conservation and Divergence in Nucleotide Excision Repair Lesion Recognition.


ABSTRACT: Nucleotide excision repair is an important and highly conserved DNA repair mechanism with an exceptionally large range of chemically and structurally unrelated targets. Lesion verification is believed to be achieved by the helicases UvrB and XPD in the prokaryotic and eukaryotic processes, respectively. Using single molecule atomic force microscopy analyses, we demonstrate that UvrB and XPD are able to load onto DNA and pursue lesion verification in the absence of the initial lesion detection proteins. Interestingly, our studies show different lesion recognition strategies for the two functionally homologous helicases, as apparent from their distinct DNA strand preferences, which can be rationalized from the different structural features and interactions with other nucleotide excision repair protein factors of the two enzymes.

SUBMITTER: Wirth N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5009266 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Conservation and Divergence in Nucleotide Excision Repair Lesion Recognition.

Wirth Nicolas N   Gross Jonas J   Roth Heide M HM   Buechner Claudia N CN   Kisker Caroline C   Tessmer Ingrid I  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20160712 36


Nucleotide excision repair is an important and highly conserved DNA repair mechanism with an exceptionally large range of chemically and structurally unrelated targets. Lesion verification is believed to be achieved by the helicases UvrB and XPD in the prokaryotic and eukaryotic processes, respectively. Using single molecule atomic force microscopy analyses, we demonstrate that UvrB and XPD are able to load onto DNA and pursue lesion verification in the absence of the initial lesion detection pr  ...[more]

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