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  • Title: Interactions of the DNA polymerase X from African swine fever virus with gapped DNA substrates. Quantitative analysis of functional structures of the formed complexes.
    Author: Jezewska MJ, Bujalowski PJ, Bujalowski W.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 2007 Nov 13; 46(45):12909-24. PubMed ID: 17941646.
    Abstract:
    Energetics and specificity of interactions between the African swine fever virus polymerase X and gapped DNA substrates have been studied, using the quantitative fluorescence titration technique. Stoichiometries of pol X complexes, with the DNA substrates, are higher than suggested by NMR studies. This can be understood in the context of the functionally heterogeneous organization of the total DNA-binding site of pol X, which is composed of two DNA-binding subsites. The enzyme forms two different complexes with the gapped DNAs, differing dramatically in affinities. In the high-affinity complex, pol X engages the total DNA-binding site, forming the gap complex, while in the low-affinity the enzyme binds to the dsDNA parts of the gapped DNA, using only one of the DNA-binding subsites. As a result, the net number of ions released in the gap complex formation is significantly larger than in the binding of the dsDNA part. In the presence of Mg+2, pol X shows a strong preference for the ssDNA gaps having one and two nucleotides. Recognition of the short gaps already occurs in the ground state of the enzyme-DNA complex. Surprisingly, the specific structure necessary to recognize the short gaps is induced by magnesium binding to the enzyme. In the absence of Mg+2, pol X looses its selectivity for short ssDNA gaps. Pol X binds gapped DNAs with considerable cooperative interactions, which increase with the decreasing gap size. The functional implications of these findings for ASFV pol X activities are discussed.
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