Tomoki Imura , Yuhei Hosokawa , Kai-Chun Yang , Yuki Ban , Hsuan-Yu Shih , Junpei Yamamoto , Manuel Maestre-Reyna
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Abstract
Engineered in crystallo photosensitivity in a DNA-repair enzyme is carefully assessed for its suitability as a target for time-resolved crystallographic studies.
Co-crystal structures of a base-excision DNA-repair enzyme (human 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase; hOgg1) in complex with a photocaged 8-oxoguanine DNA lesion were determined before and after uncaging via illumination at 2.81 and 2.48 Å resolution, respectively. The structures were carefully reassessed to rapidly expand the target repertoire of light-triggered time-resolved macromolecular crystallography. Late-intermediate cryo-trapping after uncaging revealed the partial accommodation of 8-oxoguanine in the active site with 68% occupancy, which did not induce full active-site adaptation to the catalytic state. Crystal illumination led to a light-dependent loss of diffraction power, likely due to crystal-packing collapse during the very late reaction stages. This work therefore not only demonstrates that hOgg1 is well suited for time-resolved crystallography, but also that such analysis is necessary to determine further steps in its reaction.
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IUCrJ is a new fully open-access peer-reviewed journal from the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).
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