1nku

NMR Solution Structure of Zinc-binding protein 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase I (TAG)

spinqualitylabelsall models 1nku Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 1nku is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia coli. Full experimental information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: Solution NMR Ligands: ZN Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function 3MG1_ECOLI Hydrolysis of the deoxyribose N-glycosidic bond to excise 3-methyladenine from the damaged DNA polymer formed by alkylation lesions. Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed The Escherichia coli 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase I (TAG) is a DNA repair enzyme that excises 3-methyladenine in DNA and is the smallest member of the helix-hairpin-helix (HhH) superfamily of DNA glycosylases. Despite many studies over the last 25 years, there has been no suggestion that TAG was a metalloprotein. However, here we establish by heteronuclear NMR and other spectroscopic methods that TAG binds 1 eq of Zn2+ extremely tightly. A family of refined NMR structures shows that 4 conserved residues contributed from the amino- and carboxyl-terminal regions of TAG (Cys4, His17, His175, and Cys179) form a Zn2+ binding site. The Zn2+ ion serves to tether the otherwise unstructured amino- and carboxyl-terminal regions of TAG. We propose that this unexpected "zinc snap" motif in the TAG family (CX(12-17)HX(approximately 150)HX(3)C) serves to stabilize the HhH domain thereby mimicking the functional role of protein-protein interactions in larger HhH superfamily members. A novel zinc snap motif conveys structural stability to 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase I.,Kwon K, Cao C, Stivers JT J Biol Chem. 2003 May 23;278(21):19442-6. Epub 2003 Mar 24. PMID:12654914 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also DNA glycosylase 3D structures

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