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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 42, Issue 18, Pages 11528-11545Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku856
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- Farris Family Innovation Award
- U.S. National Science Foundation through the Physics Frontiers Center Program [1430124]
- Czech Science Foundation [GA204/09/0565]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1430124] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Various helicases and single-stranded DNA (ss-DNA) binding proteins are known to destabilize G-quadruplex (GQ) structures, which otherwise result in genomic instability. Bulk biochemical studies have shown that Bloom helicase (BLM) unfolds both intermolecular and intramolecular GQ in the presence of ATP. Using single molecule FRET, we show that binding of RecQ-core of BLM (will be referred to as BLM) to ssDNA in the vicinity of an intramolecular GQ leads to destabilization and unfolding of the GQ in the absence of ATP. We show that the efficiency of BLM-mediated GQ unfolding correlates with the binding stability of BLM to ssDNA overhang, as modulated by the nucleotide state, ionic conditions, overhang length and overhang directionality. In particular, we observed enhanced GQ unfolding by BLM in the presence of non-hydrolysable ATP analogs, which has implications for the underlying mechanism. We also show that increasing GQ stability, via shorter loops or higher ionic strength, reduces BLM-mediated GQ unfolding. Finally, we show that while WRN has similar activity as BLM, RecQ and RECQ5 helicases do not unfold GQ in the absence of ATP at physiological ionic strength. In summary, our study points to a novel and potentially very common mechanism of GQ destabilization mediated by proteins binding to the vicinity of these structures.
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