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The C-terminal region of translesion synthesis DNA polymerase ? is partially unstructured and has high conformational flexibility.

ABSTRACT: Eukaryotic DNA polymerase ? catalyzes translesion synthesis of thymine dimers and 8-oxoguanines. It is comprised of a polymerase domain and a C-terminal region, both of which are required for its biological function. The C-terminal region mediates interactions with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and other translesion synthesis proteins such as Rev1. This region contains a ubiquitin-binding/zinc-binding (UBZ) motif and a PCNA-interacting protein (PIP) motif. Currently little structural information is available for this region of polymerase ?. Using a combination of approaches-including genetic complementation assays, X-ray crystallography, Langevin dynamics simulations, and small-angle X-ray scattering-we show that the C-terminal region is partially unstructured and has high conformational flexibility. This implies that the C-terminal region acts as a flexible tether linking the polymerase domain to PCNA thereby increasing its local concentration. Such tethering would facilitate the sampling of translesion synthesis polymerases to ensure that the most appropriate one is selected to bypass the lesion.

SUBMITTER: Powers KT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829636 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The C-terminal region of translesion synthesis DNA polymerase η is partially unstructured and has high conformational flexibility.

Powers Kyle T KT Elcock Adrian H AH Washington M Todd MT

Nucleic acids research 20180201 4

Eukaryotic DNA polymerase η catalyzes translesion synthesis of thymine dimers and 8-oxoguanines. It is comprised of a polymerase domain and a C-terminal region, both of which are required for its biological function. The C-terminal region mediates interactions with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and other translesion synthesis proteins such as Rev1. This region contains a ubiquitin-binding/zinc-binding (UBZ) motif and a PCNA-interacting protein (PIP) motif. Currently little structural ...[more]

PMID: 29385534

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Project description:The X-family DNA polymerases ? (Pol?) and ? (Pol?) possess similar 5'-2-deoxyribose-5-phosphate lyase (dRPase) and polymerase domains. Besides these domains, Pol? also possesses a BRCA1 C-terminal (BRCT) domain and a proline-rich domain at its N terminus. However, it is unclear how these non-enzymatic domains contribute to the unique biological functions of Pol?. Here, we used primer extension assays and a newly developed high-throughput short oligonucleotide sequencing assay (HT-SOSA) to compare the efficiency of lesion bypass and fidelity of human Pol?, Pol? and two N-terminal deletion constructs of Pol? during the bypass of either an abasic site or an 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG) lesion. We demonstrate that the BRCT domain of Pol? enhances the efficiency of abasic site bypass by approximately 1.6-fold. In contrast, deletion of the N-terminal domains of Pol? did not affect the efficiency of 8-oxodG bypass relative to nucleotide incorporations opposite undamaged dG. HT-SOSA analysis demonstrated that Pol? and Pol? preferentially generated -1 or -2 frameshift mutations when bypassing an abasic site and the single or double base deletion frequency was highly sequence dependent. Interestingly, the BRCT and proline-rich domains of Pol? cooperatively promoted the generation of -2 frameshift mutations when the abasic site was situated within a sequence context that was susceptible to homology-driven primer realignment. Furthermore, both N-terminal domains of Pol? increased the generation of -1 frameshift mutations during 8-oxodG bypass and influenced the frequency of substitution mutations produced by Pol? opposite the 8-oxodG lesion. Overall, our data support a model wherein the BRCT and proline-rich domains of Pol? act cooperatively to promote primer/template realignment between DNA strands of limited sequence homology. This function of the N-terminal domains may facilitate the role of Pol? as a gap-filling polymerase within the non-homologous end joining pathway.

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The C-terminal region of translesion synthesis DNA polymerase ? is partially unstructured and has high conformational flexibility.

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The C-terminal region of translesion synthesis DNA polymerase η is partially unstructured and has high conformational flexibility.

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