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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 939-948Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkj484
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM068680, R01GM049245] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM049245, R01 GM068680, GM068680, GM49245] Funding Source: Medline
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HinP1 I recognizes and cleaves the palindromic tetranucleotide sequence G down arrow CGC in DNA. We report three structures of HinP1 I-DNA complexes: in the presence of Ca2+ (pre-reactive complex), in the absence of metal ion (binary complex) and in the presence of Mg2+ (post-reactive complex). HinP1 I forms a back-to-back dimer with two active sites and two DNA duplexes bound on the outer surfaces of the dimer facing away from each other. The 10 bp DNA duplexes undergo protein-induced distortions exhibiting features of A-, B- and Z-conformations: bending on one side (by intercalation of a phenylalanine side chain into the major groove), base flipping on the other side of the recognition site (by expanding the step rise distance of the local base pair to Z-form) and a local A-form conformation between the two central C:G base pairs of the recognition site (by binding of the N-terminal helix in the minor groove). In the pre- and post-reactive complexes, two metals (Ca2+ or Mg2+) are found in the active site. The enzyme appears to cleave DNA sequentially, hydrolyzing first one DNA strand, as seen in the post-reactive complex in the crystalline state, and then the other, as supported by the observation that, in solution, a nicked DNA intermediate accumulates before linearization.
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