Quantitative analysis of location- and sequence-dependent deamination by APOBEC3G using real-time NMR spectroscopy.
The human antiretroviral factor APOBEC3G (A3G) deaminates the newly synthesized minus strand of the human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1), which results in the abolition of the infectivity of virus-infectivity-factor (Vif)-deficient HIV-1 strains.1-6 A unique property of A3G is that it deaminates a CCC hot spot that is located close to the 5' end more effectively than one that is less close to the 5' end. However, the mechanism of this process is elusive as it includes nonspecific binding of A3G to DNA and sliding of A3G along the DNA strand. Therefore, this process cannot be analyzed by existing methods using the Michaelis-Menten theory. A new real-time NMR method has been developed to examine the nonspecific binding and the sliding processes explicitly, and it was applied to the analysis of the deamination by A3G. As a result, the location-dependent deamination can be explained by a difference in the catalytic rates that depend on the direction of the approach of A3G to the target cytidine. Real-time NMR experiments also showed that A3G deaminates CCCC tandem hotspots with little redundancy, which suggests that A3G efficiently mutates many CCC hotspots that are scattered throughout the HIV-1 genome.
Institute of Advanced Energy, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011 (Japan).
Ayako
A
Furukawa
Kenji
K
Sugase
Ryo
R
Morishita
Takashi
T
Nagata
Tsutomu
T
Kodaki
Akifumi
A
Takaori-Kondo
Akihide
A
Ryo
Masato
M
Katahira
D000071480:APOBEC-3G Deaminase; D001483:Base Sequence; D003564:Cytidine Deaminase / Q000378:metabolism*; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D003641:Deamination; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000378:metabolism; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000502:physiology; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions; D006801:Humans; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / Q000379:methods*; D011485:Protein Binding
D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D000071480:APOBEC-3G Deaminase; C464924:APOBEC3G protein, human; D003564:Cytidine Deaminase
DNA; NMR spectroscopy; deamination; enzyme kinetics; quantitative analysis