A combined structural and biochemical approach reveals translocation and stalling of UvrB on the DNA lesion as a mechanism of damage verification in bacterial nucleotide excision repair
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Marcin Jaciuk Paolo Swuec Vineet Gaur Joanna M Kasprzak Ludovic Renault Mateusz Dobrychłop Shivlee Nirwal Janusz M Bujnicki Alessandro Costa Marcin NowotnyAbstract
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a DNA repair pathway present in all domains of life. In bacteria, UvrA protein localizes the DNA lesion, followed by verification by UvrB helicase and excision by UvrC double nuclease. UvrA senses deformations and flexibility of the DNA duplex without precisely localizing the lesion in the damaged strand, an element essential for proper NER. Using a combination of techniques, we elucidate the mechanism of the damage verification step in bacterial NER. UvrA dimer recruits two UvrB molecules to its two sides. Each of the two UvrB molecules clamps a different DNA strand using its β-hairpin element. Both UvrB molecules then translocate to the lesion, and UvrA dissociates. The UvrB molecule that clamps the damaged strand gets stalled at the lesion to recruit UvrC. This mechanism allows UvrB to verify the DNA damage and identify its precise location triggering subsequent steps in the NER pathway.
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Publisher website (DOI) 10.1016/j.dnarep.2019.102746
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