Ordered conformational changes in damaged DNA induced by nucleotide excision repair factors.
In response to genotoxic attacks, cells activate sophisticated DNA repair pathways such as nucleotide excision repair (NER), which consists of damage removal via dual incision and DNA resynthesis. Using permanganate footprinting as well as highly purified factors, we show that NER is a dynamic process that takes place in a number of successive steps during which the DNA is remodeled around the lesion in response to the various NER factors. XPC/HR23B first recognizes the damaged structure and initiates the opening of the helix from position -3 to +6. TFIIH is then recruited and, in the presence of ATP, extends the opening from position -6 to +6; it also displaces XPC downstream from the lesion, thereby providing the topological structure for recruiting XPA and RPA, which will enlarge the opening. Once targeted by XPG, the damaged DNA is further melted from position -19 to +8. XPG and XPF/ERCC1 endonucleases then cut the damaged DNA at the limit of the opened structure that was previously "labeled" by the positioning of XPC/HR23B and TFIIH.
Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, BP 10142, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg, France.
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D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D004720:Endonucleases; D006801:Humans; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D051716:Replication Protein A; D051758:Transcription Factor TFIIH; D014157:Transcription Factors; D019473:Transcription Factors, TFII / Q000235:genetics; D051760:Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group A Protein; D000099250:DNA Excision Repair Protein ERCC-5
D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D004247:DNA; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D004720:Endonucleases; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D051716:Replication Protein A; D051758:Transcription Factor TFIIH; D014157:Transcription Factors; D019473:Transcription Factors, TFII; D051760:Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group A Protein; D000099250:DNA Excision Repair Protein ERCC-5; C497167:RPA1 protein, human; C497314:XPA protein, human; C086985:RAD23A protein, human