Vaccinia virus DNA topoisomerase: a model eukaryotic type IB enzyme
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- DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(98)00144-4
Vaccinia virus DNA topoisomerase: a model eukaryotic type IB enzyme
Abstract
Vaccinia topoisomerase has proven to be an instructive model system for mechanistic studies of the type IB family of DNA topoisomerases. The catalytically relevant functional groups at the active site and the circumferential topoisomerase-DNA interface were correctly surmised by mutational and footprint analysis of vaccinia topoisomerase in advance of structure determinations by X-ray crystallography. It is now evident from multiple crystal structures that the catalytic domains of type IB topoisomerases and site specific recombinases derive from a common ancestral strand transferase capable of forming a DNA-(3'-phosphotyrosyl)-enzyme intermediate. A constellation of conserved amino acids catalyzes attack of the tyrosine nucleophile on the scissile phosphate. Domain dynamics and DNA-induced conformational changes within the catalytic domain are likely to play a role in triggering strand scission and coordinating the strand exchange or strand passage steps.
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