1emj
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'''URACIL-DNA GLYCOSYLASE BOUND TO DNA CONTAINING A 4'-THIO-2'DEOXYURIDINE ANALOG PRODUCT''' | '''URACIL-DNA GLYCOSYLASE BOUND TO DNA CONTAINING A 4'-THIO-2'DEOXYURIDINE ANALOG PRODUCT''' | ||
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URACIL-DNA GLYCOSYLASE BOUND TO DNA CONTAINING A 4'-THIO-2'DEOXYURIDINE ANALOG PRODUCT
Overview
Enzymatic transformations of macromolecular substrates such as DNA repair enzyme/DNA transformations are commonly interpreted primarily by active-site functional-group chemistry that ignores their extensive interfaces. Yet human uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG), an archetypical enzyme that initiates DNA base-excision repair, efficiently excises the damaged base uracil resulting from cytosine deamination even when active-site functional groups are deleted by mutagenesis. The 1.8-A resolution substrate analogue and 2.0-A resolution cleaved product cocrystal structures of UDG bound to double-stranded DNA suggest enzyme-DNA substrate-binding energy from the macromolecular interface is funneled into catalytic power at the active site. The architecturally stabilized closing of UDG enforces distortions of the uracil and deoxyribose in the flipped-out nucleotide substrate that are relieved by glycosylic bond cleavage in the product complex. This experimentally defined substrate stereochemistry implies the enzyme alters the orientation of three orthogonal electron orbitals to favor electron transpositions for glycosylic bond cleavage. By revealing the coupling of this anomeric effect to a delocalization of the glycosylic bond electrons into the uracil aromatic system, this structurally implicated mechanism resolves apparent paradoxes concerning the transpositions of electrons among orthogonal orbitals and the retention of catalytic efficiency despite mutational removal of active-site functional groups. These UDG/DNA structures and their implied dissociative excision chemistry suggest biology favors a chemistry for base-excision repair initiation that optimizes pathway coordination by product binding to avoid the release of cytotoxic and mutagenic intermediates. Similar excision chemistry may apply to other biological reaction pathways requiring the coordination of complex multistep chemical transformations.
About this Structure
1EMJ is a Single protein structure of sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Uracil-DNA glycosylase-DNA substrate and product structures: conformational strain promotes catalytic efficiency by coupled stereoelectronic effects., Parikh SS, Walcher G, Jones GD, Slupphaug G, Krokan HE, Blackburn GM, Tainer JA, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9;97(10):5083-8. PMID:10805771 Page seeded by OCA on Fri May 2 15:16:51 2008
