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ACS CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.2c00511
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- National Cancer Institute [R01 CA090689]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [R01 GM129267]
- National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support grant [P30 CA042014]
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This study provides a quantitative survey of cysteine oxidation to sulfenic acid in APE1 and demonstrates how this modification affects APE1's function towards the NEIL3 gene promoter G4. The research suggests that cysteine oxidation to sulfenic acid enhances APE1's affinity for G4 during oxidative stress, but attenuates its endonuclease activity.
Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease-1 (APE1) is a base excision repair (BER) enzyme that is also engaged in transcriptional regulation. Previous work demonstrated that the enzymatic stalling of APE1 on a promoter G-quadruplex (G4) recruits transcription factors during oxidative stress for gene regulation. Also, during oxidative stress, cysteine (Cys) oxidation is a post-translational modification (PTM) that can change a protein's function. The current study provides a quantitative survey of cysteine oxidation to sulfenic acid in APE1 and how this PTM at specific cysteine residues affects the function of APE1 toward the NEIL3 gene promoter G4 bearing an abasic site. Of the seven cysteine residues in APE1, five (C65, C93, C208, C296, and C310) were prone to carbonate radical anion oxidation to yield sulfenic acids that were identified and quantified by mass spectrometry. Accordingly, five Cys-to-serine (Ser) mutants of APE1 were prepared and found to have attenuated levels of endonuclease activity, depending on the position, while KD values generally decreased for G4 binding, indicating greater affinity. These data support the concept that cysteine oxidation to sulfenic acid can result in modified APE1 that enhances G4 binding at the expense of endonuclease activity during oxidative stress. Cysteine oxidation to sulfenic acid residues should be considered as one of the factors that may trigger a switch from base excision repair activity to transcriptional modulation by APE1.
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