Abstract:
:Mycoplasmas are the smallest known microorganisms, with drastically reduced genome sizes. One of the essential biochemical pathways lost in mycoplasmas is methylation-mediated DNA repair (MMR), which is responsible for correction of base substitutions, insertions, and deletions in both bacteria and higher organisms. We found that the histone-like protein encoded by the himA/hup_2 gene of Mycoplasma gallisepticum (mgHU) recognizes typical MMR substrates, in contrast to homologues from other species. The recognition of substitution mismatches is sequence-dependent, with affinities decreasing in the following order: CC > CT = TT > AA = AC. Insertions or deletions of one nucleotide are also specifically recognized with the following sequence-dependent preference: A = T > C. One-nucleotide lesions involving guanine are bound only weakly, and this binding is indistinguishable from binding to intact DNA. Although mgHU is dissimilar to Escherichia coli HU, expression in a slow-growing hupAB E. coli strain restores wild-type growth. The results indicate that mgHU executes all essential functions of bacterial architectural proteins. The origin and the possible role of enhanced specificity for typical MMR substrates are discussed.
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Biochemistryjournal_title
Biochemistryauthors
Kamashev D,Oberto J,Serebryakova M,Gorbachev A,Zhukova Y,Levitskii S,Mazur AK,Govorun Vdoi
10.1021/bi2009097subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-10-11 00:00:00pages
8692-702issue
40eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995journal_volume
50pub_type
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