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EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 24, Issue 14, Pages 2679-2687Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600740
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Bloom's syndrome; Holliday junction resolution; HRDC domain; RecQ DNA helicases; topoisomerase III
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Bloom's syndrome is a hereditary cancer-predisposition disorder resulting from mutations in the BLM gene. In humans, BLM encodes one of five members of the RecQ helicase family. One function of BLM is to act in concert with topoisomerase III alpha (TOPO III alpha) to resolve recombination intermediates containing double Holliday junctions by a process called double Holliday junction dissolution, herein termed dissolution. Here, we show that dissolution is highly specific for BLM among human RecQ helicases and critically depends upon a functional HRDC domain in BLM. We show that the HRDC domain confers DNA structure specificity, and is required for the efficient binding to and unwinding of double Holliday junctions, but not for the unwinding of a simple partial duplex substrate. Furthermore, we show that lysine-1270 of BLM, which resides in the HRDC domain and is predicted to play a role in mediating interactions with DNA, is required for efficient dissolution.
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