title: Functional interaction of proliferating cell nuclear antigen with MSH2-MSH6 and MSH2-MSH3 complexes.
abstract: Eukaryotic DNA mismatch repair requires the concerted action of several proteins, including proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and heterodimers of MSH2 complexed with either MSH3 or MSH6. Here we report that MSH3 and MSH6, but not MSH2, contain N-terminal sequence motifs characteristic of proteins that bind to PCNA. MSH3 and MSH6 peptides containing these motifs bound PCNA, as did the intact Msh2-Msh6 complex. This binding was strongly reduced when alanine was substituted for conserved residues in the motif. Yeast strains containing alanine substitutions in the PCNA binding motif of Msh6 or Msh3 had elevated mutation rates, indicating that these interactions are important for genome stability. When human MSH3 or MSH6 peptides containing the PCNA binding motif were added to a human cell extract, mismatch repair activity was inhibited at a step preceding DNA resynthesis. Thus, MSH3 and MSH6 interactions with PCNA may facilitate early steps in DNA mismatch repair and may also be important for other roles of these eukaryotic MutS homologs.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Valle
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Drotschmann
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Gary
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Kunkel
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D020137:Base Pair Mismatch; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D004260:DNA Repair; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D019281:Dimerization; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D027425:ATP-Binding Cassette, Sub-Family C Proteins; D051718:MutS Homolog 2 Protein; D000074081:MutS Homolog 3 Protein; D018809:Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D027425:ATP-Binding Cassette, Sub-Family C Proteins; D051718:MutS Homolog 2 Protein; D000074081:MutS Homolog 3 Protein; D018809:Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C094443:G-T mismatch-binding protein; C081696:MSH3 protein, S cerevisiae; C078444:MSH3 protein, human; C497172:MSH2 protein, human; C421109:multidrug resistance-associated protein 1