1DEW

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN APE1 BOUND TO ABASIC DNA


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 2.65 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.286 
  • R-Value Work: 0.195 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.195 

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Literature

DNA-bound structures and mutants reveal abasic DNA binding by APE1 and DNA repair coordination

Mol, C.D.Izumi, T.Mitra, S.Tainer, J.A.

(2000) Nature 403: 451-456

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/35000249
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    1DE8, 1DE9, 1DEW

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    Non-coding apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites in DNA are continually created in cells both spontaneously and by damage-specific DNA glycosylases. The biologically critical human base excision repair enzyme APE1 cleaves the DNA sugar-phosphate backbone at a position 5' of AP sites to prime DNA repair synthesis. Here we report three co-crystal structures of human APE1 bound to abasic DNA which show that APE1 uses a rigid, pre-formed, positively charged surface to kink the DNA helix and engulf the AP-DNA strand. APE1 inserts loops into both the DNA major and minor grooves and binds a flipped-out AP site in a pocket that excludes DNA bases and racemized beta-anomer AP sites. Both the APE1 active-site geometry and a complex with cleaved AP-DNA and Mn2+ support a testable structure-based catalytic mechanism. Alanine substitutions of the residues that penetrate the DNA helix unexpectedly show that human APE1 is structurally optimized to retain the cleaved DNA product. These structural and mutational results show how APE1 probably displaces bound glycosylases and retains the nicked DNA product, suggesting that APE1 acts in vivo to coordinate the orderly transfer of unstable DNA damage intermediates between the excision and synthesis steps of DNA repair.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, and the Department of Molecular Biology, La Jolla, California 92037-1027, USA.


Macromolecules

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Entity ID: 3
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
MAJOR APURINIC/APYRIMIDINIC ENDONUCLEASEE [auth A],
F [auth B]
279Homo sapiensMutation(s): 0 
EC: 4.2.99.18 (PDB Primary Data), 3.1.21 (UniProt), 3.1.11.2 (UniProt)
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PHAROS:  P27695
GTEx:  ENSG00000100823 
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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains LengthOrganismImage
5'-D(*GP*CP*GP*TP*CP*CP*(3DR)P*CP*GP*AP*CP*GP*AP*CP*G)-3'A [auth X],
C [auth U]
15N/A
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Entity ID: 2
MoleculeChains LengthOrganismImage
5'-D(*GP*TP*CP*GP*TP*CP*GP*GP*GP*GP*AP*CP*GP*C)-3'B [auth Y],
D [auth V]
14N/A
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Small Molecules
Ligands 1 Unique
IDChains Name / Formula / InChI Key2D Diagram3D Interactions
SO4
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G [auth B]SULFATE ION
O4 S
QAOWNCQODCNURD-UHFFFAOYSA-L
Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 2.65 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.286 
  • R-Value Work: 0.195 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.195 
  • Space Group: P 1 21 1
Unit Cell:
Length ( Å )Angle ( ˚ )
a = 71.221α = 90
b = 72.249β = 94.292
c = 93.749γ = 90
Software Package:
Software NamePurpose
DENZOdata reduction
SCALEPACKdata scaling
AMoREphasing
X-PLORrefinement

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Entry History 

Deposition Data

Revision History  (Full details and data files)

  • Version 1.0: 2000-02-02
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2008-04-01
    Changes: Version format compliance
  • Version 1.2: 2011-07-13
    Changes: Version format compliance
  • Version 1.3: 2024-02-07
    Changes: Data collection, Database references, Derived calculations