Co-crystal Structure of Rat DNA polymerase beta Mutator I260Q: Enzyme-DNA-ddTTPCo-crystal Structure of Rat DNA polymerase beta Mutator I260Q: Enzyme-DNA-ddTTP

Structural highlights

3uxp is a 6 chain structure with sequence from Rattus norvegicus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Ligands:,
Gene:Polb (Rattus norvegicus)
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Function

[DPOLB_RAT] Repair polymerase that plays a key role in base-excision repair. Has 5'-deoxyribose-5-phosphate lyase (dRP lyase) activity that removes the 5' sugar phosphate and also acts as a DNA polymerase that adds one nucleotide to the 3' end of the arising single-nucleotide gap. Conducts 'gap-filling' DNA synthesis in a stepwise distributive fashion rather than in a processive fashion as for other DNA polymerases.

Publication Abstract from PubMed

The I260Q variant of DNA polymerase beta is an efficient mutator polymerase with fairly indiscriminate misincorporation activities opposite all template bases. Previous modeling studies have suggested that I260Q harbors structural variations in its hinge region. Here, we present the crystal structures of wild type and I260Q rat polymerase beta in the presence and absence of substrates. Both the I260Q apoenzyme structure and the closed ternary complex with double-stranded DNA and ddTTP show ordered water molecules in the hydrophobic hinge near Gln260, whereas this is not the case in the wild type polymerase. Compared to wild type polymerase beta ternary complexes, there are subtle movements around residues 260, 272, 295, and 296 in the mutant. The rearrangements in this region, coupled with side chain movements in the immediate neighborhood of the dNTP-binding pocket, namely, residues 258 and 272, provide an explanation for the altered activity and fidelity profiles observed in the I260Q mutator polymerase.

Structural changes in the hydrophobic hinge region adversely affect the activity and fidelity of the I260Q mutator DNA polymerase beta.,Gridley CL, Rangarajan S, Firbank S, Dalal S, Sweasy JB, Jaeger J Biochemistry. 2013 Jun 25;52(25):4422-32. doi: 10.1021/bi301368f. Epub 2013 Jun, 12. PMID:23651085[1]

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References

  1. Gridley CL, Rangarajan S, Firbank S, Dalal S, Sweasy JB, Jaeger J. Structural changes in the hydrophobic hinge region adversely affect the activity and fidelity of the I260Q mutator DNA polymerase beta. Biochemistry. 2013 Jun 25;52(25):4422-32. doi: 10.1021/bi301368f. Epub 2013 Jun, 12. PMID:23651085 doi:10.1021/bi301368f

3uxp, resolution 2.72Å

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