title: Human MutY homolog, a DNA glycosylase involved in base excision repair, physically and functionally interacts with mismatch repair proteins human MutS homolog 2/human MutS homolog 6.
abstract: Adenines mismatched with guanines or 7,8-dihydro-8-oxo-deoxyguanines that arise through DNA replication errors can be repaired by either base excision repair or mismatch repair. The human MutY homolog (hMYH), a DNA glycosylase, removes adenines from these mismatches. Human MutS homologs, hMSH2/hMSH6 (hMutSalpha), bind to the mismatches and initiate the repair on the daughter DNA strands. Human MYH is physically associated with hMSH2/hMSH6 via the hMSH6 subunit. The interaction of hMutSalpha and hMYH is not observed in several mismatch repair-defective cell lines. The hMutSalpha binding site is mapped to amino acid residues 232-254 of hMYH, a region conserved in the MutY family. Moreover, the binding and glycosylase activities of hMYH with an A/7,8-dihydro-8-oxo-deoxyguanine mismatch are enhanced by hMutSalpha. These results suggest that protein-protein interactions may be a means by which hMYH repair and mismatch repair cooperate in reducing replicative errors caused by oxidized bases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA.
authors.forename: Yesong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Antony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Teresa M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Haibo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Dau-Yin
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: A-Lien
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D001483:Base Sequence; D045647:DNA Glycosylases; D017931:DNA Primers; D004260:DNA Repair; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051719:MutS DNA Mismatch-Binding Protein; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism*; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000378:metabolism*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D017931:DNA Primers; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D045647:DNA Glycosylases; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases; C061738:mutY adenine glycosylase; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D051719:MutS DNA Mismatch-Binding Protein; C497175:MutS protein, E coli