Active site of (A)BC excinuclease. I. Evidence for 5' incision by UvrC through a catalytic site involving Asp399, Asp438, Asp466, and His538 residues
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Active site of (A)BC excinuclease. I. Evidence for 5' incision by UvrC through a catalytic site involving Asp399, Asp438, Asp466, and His538 residues
Abstract
(A)BC excinuclease of Escherichia coli removes damaged nucleotides from DNA by hydrolyzing the 8th phosphodiester bond 5' and the 15th phosphodiester bond 3' to the modified base. The activity results from the ordered action of UvrA, UvrB, and UvrC proteins. The role of UvrA is to help assemble the UvrB.DNA complex, and it is not involved in the actual incision reactions which are carried out by UvrB and UvrC. To investigate the role of UvrC in the nuclease activity a subset of His, Asp, and Glu residues in the C-terminal half of the protein were mutagenized in vitro. The effect of these mutations on UV resistance in vivo and incision activity in vitro were investigated. Mutations, H538F, D399A, D438A, and D466A conferred extreme UV sensitivity. Enzyme reconstituted with these mutant proteins carried out normal 3' incision but was completely defective in 5' incision activity. Our data suggest that UvrC makes the 5' incision by employing a mechanism whereby the three carboxylates acting in concert with H538 and a Mg2+ ion facilitate nucleophilic attack by an active site water molecule.
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