Sequence effects on translesion synthesis of an aminofluorene-DNA adduct: Conformational, thermodynamic, and primer extension kinetic studies
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
3-6-2012
Abstract
The DNA sequence effect is an important structural factor for determining the extent and nature of carcinogen-induced mutational and repair outcomes. In this study, we used two 16-mer template sequences, TG*A [d(5′-CTTCTTG*ACCTCATTC-3′)] and CG*A [d(5′-CTTCTCG*ACCTCATTC-3′)], to study the impact of the 5′-flanking nucleotide (T vs C) on aminofluorene (AF)-induced stacked (S)/major groove (B)/wedge (W) conformational heterogeneity during a simulated translesion synthesis. In addition, we probed the sequence effect on nucleotide insertion efficiencies catalyzed by the Klenow fragment (exonuclease-deficient) of DNA polymerase I. Our 19F NMR/ICD/DSC results showed that AF in the CG*A duplex sequence adopts a greater population of S-conformer than the TG*A sequence. We found that the S conformer of CG*A thermodynamically favors insertion of A over C at the lesion site (n). Significant stalling occurred at both the prelesion (n - 1) and lesion (n) sites; however, the effect was more persistent for the S conformer of CG*A than TG*A at the lesion site (n). Kinetics show that relative nucleotide insertion frequencies (f ins) were greater for TG*A than the S conformer of CG*A for either dCTP or dATP at the lesion site (n), and the insertion rate was significantly reduced at immediate upstream base pairs (n, n + 1). Taken together, the results provide insight into how the mutagenic AF could exhibit an S/B/W equilibrium in the active site of a polymerase, causing different mutations. This work represents a novel structure-function relationship in which adduct structure is directly linked to nucleotide insertion efficiency in a conformation-specific manner during translesion DNA synthesis. © 2012 American Chemical Society.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Biochemistry
Volume
51
Issue
9
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Vaidyanathan, V. G., and Bongsup P. Cho. "Sequence effects on translesion synthesis of an aminofluorene-DNA adduct: Conformational, thermodynamic, and primer extension kinetic studies." Biochemistry 51, 9 (2012): 1983-1995. doi: 10.1021/bi2017443.