Metal-dependent conformational activation explains highly promutagenic replication across O6-methylguanine by human DNA polymerase β.

ABSTRACT: Human DNA polymerase β (polβ) inserts, albeit slowly, T opposite the carcinogenic lesion O6-methylguanine (O6MeG) ∼30-fold more frequently than C. To gain insight into this promutagenic process, we solved four ternary structures of polβ with an incoming dCTP or dTTP analogue base-paired with O6MeG in the presence of active-site Mg(2+) or Mn(2+). The Mg(2+)-bound structures show that both the O6MeG·dCTP/dTTP-Mg(2+) complexes adopt an open protein conformation, staggered base pair, and one active-site metal ion. The Mn(2+)-bound structures reveal that, whereas the O6Me·dCTP-Mn(2+) complex assumes the similar altered conformation, the O6MeG·dTTP-Mn(2+) complex adopts a catalytically competent state with a closed protein conformation and pseudo-Watson-Crick base pair. On the basis of these obs

SUBMITTER: Koag MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4004240 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature