TY - JOUR
T1 - Advances in structural and single-molecule methods for investigating DNA lesion bypass and repair polymerases
AU - Raper, Austin T.
AU - Reed, Andrew J.
AU - Gadkari, Varun V.
AU - Suo, Zucai
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2017/1/17
Y1 - 2017/1/17
N2 - Innovative advances in X-ray crystallography and single-molecule biophysics have yielded unprecedented insight into the mechanisms of DNA lesion bypass and damage repair. Time-dependent X-ray crystallography has been successfully applied to view the bypass of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanine (8-oxoG), a major oxidative DNA lesion, and the incorporation of the triphosphate form, 8-oxo-dGTP, catalyzed by human DNA polymerase β. Significant findings of these studies are highlighted here, and their contributions to the current mechanistic understanding of mutagenic translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) and base excision repair are discussed. In addition, single-molecule Forster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) techniques have recently been adapted to investigate nucleotide binding and incorporation opposite undamaged dG and 8-oxoG by Sulfolobus solfataricus DNA polymerase IV (Dpo4), a model Y-family DNA polymerase. The mechanistic response of Dpo4 to a DNA lesion and the complex smFRET technique are described here. In this perspective, we also describe how time-dependent X-ray crystallography and smFRET can be used to achieve the spatial and temporal resolutions necessary to answer some of the mechanistic questions that remain in the fields of TLS and DNA damage repair.
AB - Innovative advances in X-ray crystallography and single-molecule biophysics have yielded unprecedented insight into the mechanisms of DNA lesion bypass and damage repair. Time-dependent X-ray crystallography has been successfully applied to view the bypass of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanine (8-oxoG), a major oxidative DNA lesion, and the incorporation of the triphosphate form, 8-oxo-dGTP, catalyzed by human DNA polymerase β. Significant findings of these studies are highlighted here, and their contributions to the current mechanistic understanding of mutagenic translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) and base excision repair are discussed. In addition, single-molecule Forster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) techniques have recently been adapted to investigate nucleotide binding and incorporation opposite undamaged dG and 8-oxoG by Sulfolobus solfataricus DNA polymerase IV (Dpo4), a model Y-family DNA polymerase. The mechanistic response of Dpo4 to a DNA lesion and the complex smFRET technique are described here. In this perspective, we also describe how time-dependent X-ray crystallography and smFRET can be used to achieve the spatial and temporal resolutions necessary to answer some of the mechanistic questions that remain in the fields of TLS and DNA damage repair.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.6b00342
DO - 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.6b00342
M3 - Review article
C2 - 28092942
AN - SCOPUS:85015133081
SN - 0893-228X
VL - 30
SP - 260
EP - 269
JO - Chemical research in toxicology
JF - Chemical research in toxicology
IS - 1
ER -