Dynamics of the Interaction of Human Apurinic Endonuclease (Ape1) with Its Substrate and Product*

We investigated the interaction dynamics of human abasic endonuclease, the Ape1 protein (also called Ref1, Hap1, or Apex), with its DNA substrate and incised product using electrophoretic assays and site-specific amino acid substitutions. Changing aspartate 283 to alanine (D283A) left 10% residual activity, contrary to a previous report, but complementation of repair-deficient bacteria by the D283A Ape1 protein was consistent with its activity in vitro. The D308A, D283/D308A double mutant, and histidine 309 to asparagine proteins had 22, 1, and ∼0.02% of wild-type Ape1 activity, respectively. Despite this range of enzymatic activities, all the mutant proteins had near-wild-type binding affinity specific for DNA containing a synthetic abasic site. Thus, substrate recognition and cleavage are genetically separable steps. Both the wild-type and mutant Ape1 proteins bound strongly to the enzyme incision product, an incised abasic site, which suggested that Ape1 might exhibit product inhibition. The use of human DNA polymerase β to increase Ape1 activity by eliminating the incision product supports this conclusion. Notably, the complexes of the D283A, D308A, and D283A/D308A double mutant proteins with both intact and incised abasic DNA were significantly more stable than complexes containing wild-type Ape1, which may contribute to the lower turnover numbers of the mutant enzymes. Wild-type Ape1 protein bound tightly to DNA containing a one-nucleotide gap but not to DNA with a nick, consistent with the proposal that substrate recognition by Ape1 involves a space bracketed by duplex DNA, rather than mere flexibility of the DNA.

• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Journal of Biological Chemistry

• Publication date

  1998-11-13

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1074/jbc.273.46.30352PMID 9804798
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