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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 281, Issue 22, Pages 15227-15237Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M601476200
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UvrB, a central DNA damage recognition protein in bacterial nucleotide excision repair, has weak affinity for DNA, and its ATPase activity is activated by UvrA and damaged DNA. Regulation of DNA binding and ATP hydrolysis by UvrB is poorly understood. Using atomic force microscopy and biochemical assays, we found that truncation of domain 4 of Bacillus caldotenax UvrB (UvrB Delta 4) leads to multiple changes in protein function. Protein dimerization decreases with an similar to 8-fold increase of the equilibrium dissociation constant and an increase in DNA binding. Loss of domain 4 causes the DNA binding mode of UvrB to change from dimer to monomer, and affinity increases with the apparent dissociation constants on nondamaged and damaged single-stranded DNA decreasing 22- and 14-fold, respectively. ATPase activity by UvrB Delta 4 increases 14- and 9-fold with and without single-stranded DNA, respectively, and UvrB Delta 4 supports UvrA-independent damage-specific incision by Cho on a bubble DNA substrate. We propose that other than its previously discovered role in regulating protein-protein interactions, domain 4 is an autoinhibitory domain regulating the DNA binding and ATPase activities of UvrB.
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