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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 42, Issue 28, Pages 8558-8568Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi034015w
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DNA photolyase (PL) is a monomeric flavoprotein that repairs cyclobutylpyrimidine dimers (CPDs) via photoinduced electron transfer from a reduced flavin adenine dinucleotide cofactor (FADH(-)) to the bound CPD. We have used subpicosecond UV transient absorption spectroscopy to measure the electron-transfer and repair kinetics of Anacystis nidulans DNA photolyase with dimeric and pentameric oligothymidine substrates. Here we show that the electron-transfer lifetime is 32 +/- 20 ps for the pentameric substrate. Repair of the carbon-carbon double bonds (C=C) in the CPD is initiated in similar to60 ps, and bond scission appears to be completed by 1500 ps. This suggests that the repair of the two C=C bonds proceeds sequentially and that the first bond scission has a much lower activation barrier than the second. Our experiments also suggest that the semiquinone FADH(.) cofactor is not reduced to its catalytically active FADH(-) state by substrate after repair but remains in the semiquinone state. In contrast to the longer substrate, the dinucleotide substrate produced a mixture of kinetics representing bound and unbound substrate.
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