Substitution of active site tyrosines with tryptophan alters the free energy for nucleotide flipping by human alkyladenine DNA glycosylase.
Human alkyladenine DNA glycosylase (AAG) locates and excises a wide variety of structurally diverse alkylated and oxidized purine lesions from DNA to initiate the base excision repair pathway. Recognition of a base lesion requires flipping of the damaged nucleotide into a relatively open active site pocket between two conserved tyrosine residues, Y127 and Y159. We have mutated each of these amino acids to tryptophan and measured the kinetic effects on the nucleotide flipping and base excision steps. The Y127W and Y159W mutant proteins have robust glycosylase activity toward DNA containing 1,N(6)-ethenoadenine (εA), within 4-fold of that of the wild-type enzyme, raising the possibility that tryptophan fluorescence could be used to probe the DNA binding and nucleotide flipping steps. Stopped-flow fluorescence was used to compare the time-dependent changes in tryptophan fluorescence and εA fluorescence. For both mutants, the tryptophan fluorescence exhibited two-step binding with essentially identical rate constants as were observed for the εA fluorescence changes. These results provide evidence that AAG forms an initial recognition complex in which the active site pocket is perturbed and the stacking of the damaged base is disrupted. Upon complete nucleotide flipping, there is further quenching of the tryptophan fluorescence with coincident quenching of the εA fluorescence. Although these mutations do not have large effects on the rate constant for excision of εA, there are dramatic effects on the rate constants for nucleotide flipping that result in 40-100-fold decreases in the flipping equilibrium relative to wild-type. Most of this effect is due to an increased rate of unflipping, but surprisingly the Y159W mutation causes a 5-fold increase in the rate constant for flipping. The large effect on the equilibrium for nucleotide flipping explains the greater deleterious effects that these mutations have on the glycosylase activity toward base lesions that are in more stable base pairs.
Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5606, United States.
Jenna M
JM
Hendershot
Abigail E
AE
Wolfe
Patrick J
PJ
O'Brien
D020029:Base Pairing; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D045647:DNA Glycosylases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D009711:Nucleotides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014364:Tryptophan / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
D009711:Nucleotides; D014443:Tyrosine; D014364:Tryptophan; D004247:DNA; C021565:3-methyladenine-DNA glycosylase; D045647:DNA Glycosylases
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