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==Structural Basis for a New Templated Activity by Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase: Implications for V(D)J Recombination==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[5d49]] is a 5 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus_musculus Mus musculus] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_construct Synthetic construct]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=5D49 OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=5D49 FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 1.99&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=ACT:ACETATE+ION'>ACT</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=MG:MAGNESIUM+ION'>MG</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=NA:SODIUM+ION'>NA</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=PG4:TETRAETHYLENE+GLYCOL'>PG4</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=SO4:SULFATE+ION'>SO4</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=5d49 FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=5d49 OCA], [https://pdbe.org/5d49 PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=5d49 RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/5d49 PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=5d49 ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/TDT_MOUSE TDT_MOUSE] Template-independent DNA polymerase which catalyzes the random addition of deoxynucleoside 5'-triphosphate to the 3'-end of a DNA initiator. One of the in vivo functions of this enzyme is the addition of nucleotides at the junction (N region) of rearranged Ig heavy chain and T-cell receptor gene segments during the maturation of B- and T-cells.
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Eukaryotic DNA polymerase of the polX family, such as pol mu and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT), are key components of the non-homologous end-joining or V(D)J recombination machinery, respectively. The established role of TdT is to add random nucleotides during V(D)J recombination. Here we show that TdT also has a templated-polymerase activity, similar to pol mu, in the presence of higher concentrations of a downstream DNA duplex, and performs a micro-homology single base-pair search to align the DNA synapsis. To understand the molecular basis of this alignment, we solve crystal structures of TdT with four DNA strands and study the influence of the 3' protruding end. Two mutations in TdT inspired by sequence alignments with pol mu further improve the templated activity. We propose that both templated and untemplated activities of TdT are needed to explain the distributions of lengths of N regions observed experimentally in T cell receptors and antibodies.

Structural Basis for a New Templated Activity by Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase: Implications for V(D)J Recombination.,Loc'h J, Rosario S, Delarue M Structure. 2016 Sep 6;24(9):1452-1463. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2016.06.014. Epub 2016 , Aug 4. PMID:27499438<ref>PMID:27499438</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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== References ==
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[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Mus musculus]]
[[Category: Synthetic construct]]
[[Category: Delarue M]]
[[Category: Loc'h J]]
[[Category: Rosario S]]