TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysis of uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG2) stimulation by replication protein A (RPA) at ssDNA-dsDNA junctions
AU - Weiser, Brian P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - Replication Protein A (RPA) is a single-stranded DNA binding protein that interacts with DNA repair proteins including Uracil DNA Glycosylase (UNG2). Here, I report DNA binding and activity assays using purified recombinant RPA and UNG2. Using synthetic DNA substrates, RPA was found to promote UNG2's interaction with ssDNA-dsDNA junctions regardless of the DNA strand polarity surrounding the junction. RPA stimulated UNG2's removal of uracil bases paired with adenine or guanine in DNA as much as 17-fold when the uracil was positioned 21 bps from ssDNA-dsDNA junctions, and the largest degree of UNG2 stimulation occurred when RPA was in molar excess compared to DNA. I found that RPA becomes sequestered on ssDNA regions surrounding junctions which promotes its spatial targeting of UNG2 near the junction. However, when RPA concentration exceeds free ssDNA, RPA promotes UNG2's activity without spatial constraints in dsDNA regions. These effects of RPA on UNG2 were found to be mediated primarily by interactions between RPA's winged-helix domain and UNG2's N-terminal domain, but when the winged-helix domain is unavailable, a secondary interaction between UNG2's N-terminal domain and RPA can occur. This work supports a widespread role for RPA in stimulating uracil base excision repair.
AB - Replication Protein A (RPA) is a single-stranded DNA binding protein that interacts with DNA repair proteins including Uracil DNA Glycosylase (UNG2). Here, I report DNA binding and activity assays using purified recombinant RPA and UNG2. Using synthetic DNA substrates, RPA was found to promote UNG2's interaction with ssDNA-dsDNA junctions regardless of the DNA strand polarity surrounding the junction. RPA stimulated UNG2's removal of uracil bases paired with adenine or guanine in DNA as much as 17-fold when the uracil was positioned 21 bps from ssDNA-dsDNA junctions, and the largest degree of UNG2 stimulation occurred when RPA was in molar excess compared to DNA. I found that RPA becomes sequestered on ssDNA regions surrounding junctions which promotes its spatial targeting of UNG2 near the junction. However, when RPA concentration exceeds free ssDNA, RPA promotes UNG2's activity without spatial constraints in dsDNA regions. These effects of RPA on UNG2 were found to be mediated primarily by interactions between RPA's winged-helix domain and UNG2's N-terminal domain, but when the winged-helix domain is unavailable, a secondary interaction between UNG2's N-terminal domain and RPA can occur. This work supports a widespread role for RPA in stimulating uracil base excision repair.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bbapap.2019.140347
DO - 10.1016/j.bbapap.2019.140347
M3 - Article
C2 - 31866506
AN - SCOPUS:85076824595
SN - 1570-9639
VL - 1868
JO - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics
JF - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics
IS - 3
M1 - 140347
ER -