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Nat Commun ; 14(1): 4470, 2023 07 25.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37491363

ABSTRACT

The Hermes DNA transposon is a member of the eukaryotic hAT superfamily, and its transposase forms a ring-shaped tetramer of dimers. Our investigation, combining biochemical, crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy, and in-cell assays, shows that the full-length Hermes octamer extensively interacts with its transposon left-end through multiple BED domains of three Hermes protomers contributed by three dimers explaining the role of the unusual higher-order assembly. By contrast, the right-end is bound to no BED domains at all. Thus, this work supports a model in which Hermes multimerizes to gather enough BED domains to find its left-end among the abundant genomic DNA, facilitating the subsequent interaction with the right-end.


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DNA Transposable Elements , Eukaryota , Cryoelectron Microscopy , DNA Transposable Elements/genetics , Eukaryota/genetics , Zinc Fingers , Zinc , Transposases/genetics , Transposases/metabolism
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Chembiochem ; 18(20): 2033-2044, 2017 10 18.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28805284

ABSTRACT

The human genome contains GC-rich sequences able to form tetraplex secondary structures known as the G-quadruplex and i-motif. Such sequences are notably present in the promoter region of oncogenes and are proposed to function as regulatory elements of gene expression. The P1 promoter of BCL2 contains a 39-mer C-rich sequence (Py39wt) that can fold into a hairpin or an i-motif in a pH-dependent manner in vitro. The protein hnRNP LL was identified to recognise the i-motif over the hairpin conformation and act as an activating transcription factor. Thus, the Py39wt sequence would act as an ON/OFF switch, according to the secondary structure adopted. Herein, a structural study of the interaction between hnRNP LL and Py39wt is reported. Both N-terminal RNA recognition motifs (RRM12) cooperatively recognise one Py39wt DNA sequence and engage their ß-sheet to form a large binding platform. In contrast, the C-terminal RRMs show no binding capacity. It is observed that RRM12 binds to Py39wt regardless of the DNA conformation. We propose that RRM12 recognises a single-stranded CTCCC element present in loop 1 of the i-motif and in the apical loop of the hairpin conformation.


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Heterogeneous-Nuclear Ribonucleoproteins/chemistry , Heterogeneous-Nuclear Ribonucleoproteins/metabolism , Nucleotide Motifs , Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics , Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2/genetics , Binding Sites , Humans , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Models, Molecular , Protein Binding , Protein Domains
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Chemistry ; 23(24): 5729-5735, 2017 Apr 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28106929

ABSTRACT

Griselimycin (GM) and methylgriselimycin (MGM), naturally produced by microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces, are cyclic depsipeptides composed of ten amino acids. They exhibit antibacterial activity against Mycobacterium species by inhibiting the sliding clamp of prokaryotic DNA polymerase III and are therefore considered as potential anti-tuberculosis drugs. The difference between the peptides is the presence of l-(R)-4-methyl-proline in MGM instead of l-proline in GM at position 8 of the amino acid sequence. Methylation increases both metabolic stability and activity of MGM compared to GM. To get deeper insight into the structure-activity relationship, the solution structure of the cyclic part of MGM was determined using rotating-frame nuclear Overhauser effect (ROE) distance restraints and residual dipolar couplings (RDC). The structure of MGM in solution is compared to the structure of GM in a co-crystal with DNA polymerase III subunit beta. As a result, a highly defined structural model of MGM is obtained, which shows related characteristics to the bound GM.


Subject(s)
Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology , Depsipeptides/chemistry , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/drug effects , Anti-Bacterial Agents/chemistry , Bacterial Proteins/chemistry , Bacterial Proteins/metabolism , Crystallography, X-Ray , DNA Polymerase III/chemistry , DNA Polymerase III/metabolism , Depsipeptides/pharmacology , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Molecular Conformation , Peptides, Cyclic/chemistry , Peptides, Cyclic/pharmacology
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Chembiochem ; 16(11): 1647-56, 2015 Jul 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26032298

ABSTRACT

Cytosine-rich single-stranded DNA oligonucleotides are able to adopt an i-motif conformation, a four-stranded structure, near a pH of 6. This unique pH-dependent conformational switch is reversible and hence can be controlled by changing the pH. Here, we show that the pH response range of the human telomeric i-motif can be shifted towards more basic pH values by introducing 5-methylcytidines (5-MeC) and towards more acidic pH values by introducing 5-bromocytidines (5-BrC). No thermal destabilisation was observed in these chemically modified i-motif sequences. The time required to attain the new conformation in response to sudden pH changes was slow for all investigated sequences but was found to be ten times faster in the 5-BrC derivative of the i-motif.


Subject(s)
DNA, Single-Stranded/chemistry , Nucleotide Motifs , Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry , 5-Methylcytosine/chemistry , Base Sequence , Cytosine/analogs & derivatives , Cytosine/chemistry , DNA, Single-Stranded/genetics , Humans , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Kinetics , Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/genetics , Telomere/genetics , Temperature
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