Functional properties of the thermostable mutL from Thermotoga maritima
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- Title
- Functional properties of the thermostable mutL from Thermotoga maritima
- Authors
- Kim, TG; Heo, SD; Ku, JK; Ban, C
- Date Issued
- 2009-01-31
- Publisher
- KOREAN SOCIETY BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECUL
- Abstract
- The methyl-directed mismatch repair (MMR) mechanism has been extensively studied in vitro and in vivo, but one of the difficulties in determining the biological relationships between the MMR-related proteins is the tendency of Mutt. to self-aggregate. The properties of a stable Mutt. homologue were investigated using a thermostable MutL (TmL) from Thermologa maritima MSB8 and whose size exclusion chromatographic and crosslinking analyses were compatible with a dimeric form of TmL. TmL underwent conformational changes in the presence of nucleotides and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) with ATP binding not requiring ssDNA binding activity of TmL, while ADPnP-stimulated TmL showed a high ssDNA binding affinity. Finally, TmL interacted with the T. maritima MutS (TmS), increasing the affinity of TmS to mismatched DNA base pairs and suggesting that the role of TmL in the formation of a mismatched DNA-TmS complex may be a pivotal observation for the study of the initial MMR system. [BMB reports 2009; 42(1): 53-58]
- Keywords
- ADPnP; MMR; MutL; MutS; Self-aggregate; ssDNA; Thermotoga maritima; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA-COLI; HETERODUPLEX DNA; ATPASE ACTIVITY; BINDING; SYSTEM
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/29127
- DOI
- 10.5483/BMBRep.2009.42.1.053
- ISSN
- 1976-6696
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- BMB REPORTS, vol. 42, no. 1, page. 53 - 58, 2009-01-31
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