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DNA bending in the synaptic complex in V(D)J recombination: turning an ancestral transpososome upside down.

ABSTRACT: In all jawed vertebrates RAG (recombination activating gene) recombinase orchestrates V(D)J recombination in B and T lymphocyte precursors, assembling the V, D and J germline gene segments into continuous functional entities which encode the variable regions of their immune receptors. V(D)J recombination is the process by which most of the diversity of our specific immune receptors is acquired and is thought to have originated by domestication of a transposon in the genome of a vertebrate. RAG acts similarly to the cut and paste transposases, by first binding two recombination signal DNA sequences (RSSs), which flank the two coding genes to be adjoined, in a process called synaptic or paired complex (PC) formation. At these RSS-coding borders, RAG first nicks one DNA strand, then creates hairpins, thus cleaving the duplex DNA at both RSSs. Although RAG reaction mechanism resembles that of insect mobile element transposases and RAG itself can inefficiently perform intramolecular and intermolecular integration into the target DNA, inside the nuclei of the developing lymphocytes transposition is extremely rare and is kept under proper surveillance. Our review may help understand how RAG synaptic complex organization prevents deleterious transposition. The phosphoryl transfer reaction mechanism of RNAseH-like fold DDE motif enzymes, including RAG, is discussed accentuating the peculiarities described for various transposases from the light of their available high resolution structures (Tn5, Mu, Mos1 and Hermes). Contrasting the structural 3D organization of DNA in these transpososomes with that of the RSSs-DNA in RAG PC allows us to propose several clues for how evolutionarily RAG may have become "specialized" in recombination versus transposition.

SUBMITTER: Ciubotaru M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6941560 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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DNA bending in the synaptic complex in V(D)J recombination: turning an ancestral transpososome upside down.

Ciubotaru Mihai M Surleac Marius M Musat Mihaela G MG Rusu Andreea M AM Ionita Elena E Albu Paul C C PCC

Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) 20140329 1

In all jawed vertebrates RAG (recombination activating gene) recombinase orchestrates V(D)J recombination in B and T lymphocyte precursors, assembling the V, D and J germline gene segments into continuous functional entities which encode the variable regions of their immune receptors. V(D)J recombination is the process by which most of the diversity of our specific immune receptors is acquired and is thought to have originated by domestication of a transposon in the genome of a vertebrate. RAG ...[more]

PMID: 32309545

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DNA bending in the synaptic complex in V(D)J recombination: turning an ancestral transpososome upside down.

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DNA bending in the synaptic complex in V(D)J recombination: turning an ancestral transpososome upside down.

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