DNA-Mediated Signaling by Proteins with 4Fe鈥?S Clusters Is Necessary for Genomic Integrity

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• 作者：Michael A. Grodick ; Helen M. Segal ; Theodore J. Zwang ; Jacqueline K. Barton
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：April 30, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：136
• 期：17
• 页码：6470-6478
• 全文大小：390K
• 年卷期：v.136,no.17(April 30, 2014)
• ISSN：1520-5126

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Iron鈥搒ulfur clusters have increasingly been found to be associated with enzymes involved in DNA processing. Here we describe a role for these redox clusters in DNA-mediated charge-transport signaling in E. coli between DNA repair proteins from distinct pathways. DNA-modified electrochemistry shows that the 4Fe鈥?S cluster of DNA-bound DinG, an ATP-dependent helicase that repairs R-loops, is redox-active at cellular potentials and ATP hydrolysis increases DNA-mediated redox signaling. Atomic force microscopy experiments demonstrate that DinG and Endonuclease III (EndoIII), a base excision repair enzyme, cooperate at long-range using DNA charge transport to redistribute to regions of DNA damage. Genetics experiments, moreover, reveal that this DNA-mediated signaling among proteins also occurs within the cell and, remarkably, is required for cellular viability under conditions of stress. Silencing the gene encoding EndoIII in a strain of E. coli where repair by DinG is essential results in a significant growth defect that is rescued by complementation with EndoIII but not with an EndoIII mutant that is enzymatically active but unable to carry out DNA charge transport. This work thus elucidates a fundamental mechanism to coordinate the activities of DNA repair enzymes across the genome.