NDLI: Genetic and Biochemical Characterization of a Novel umuD Mutation: Insights into a Mechanism for UmuD Self-Cleavage

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Author	Sutton, Mark D. Kim, Melanie Walker, Graham C.
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	Most translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) in Escherichia coli is dependent upon the products of the umuDC genes, which encode a DNA polymerase, DNA polymerase V, with the unique ability to replicate over a variety of DNA lesions, including cyclobutane dimers and abasic sites. The UmuD protein is activated for its role in TLS by a RecA–single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)-facilitated self-cleavage event that serves to remove its amino-terminal 24 residues to yield UmuD′. We have used site-directed mutagenesis to construct derivatives of UmuD and UmuD′ with glycines in place of leucine-101 and arginine-102. These residues are extremely well conserved among the UmuD-like proteins involved in mutagenesis but are poorly conserved among the structurally related LexA-like transcriptional repressor proteins. Based on both the crystal and solution structures of the UmuD′ homodimer, these residues are part of a solvent-exposed loop. Our genetic and biochemical characterizations of these mutant UmuD and UmuD′ proteins indicate that while leucine-101 and arginine-102 are critical for the RecA-ssDNA-facilitated self-cleavage of UmuD, they serve only a minimal role in enabling TLS. These results, and others, suggest that the interaction of RecA-ssDNA with leucine-101 and arginine-102, together with numerous other contacts between UmuD2 and the RecA-ssDNA nucleoprotein filaments, serves to realign lysine-97 relative to serine-60, thereby activating UmuD2 for self-cleavage.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.183.1.347-357.2001
Ending Page	357
Page Count	11
Starting Page	347
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00219193
e-ISSN	10985530
Journal	Journal of Bacteriology
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	183
Language	English
Publisher	American Society for Microbiology
Publisher Date	2001-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Society for Microbiology
Subject Keyword	Molecular Biology Microbiology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Molecular Biology Microbiology

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