PMID:12903266

Citation	*Fujii, S and Yamagata, Y' (2000) Structural bases for substrate recognition and repair system of base-excision DNA repair proteins.* Nucleic Acids Symp. Ser. '**:57-8
Abstract	The model structure of Escherichia coli AlkA (3-methyladenine-DNA glycosylase II) protein complexed with the double helical DNA is elucidated from X-ray structures of related DNA glycosylase enzymes and mutagenic studies. The free enzyme structure has no difficulty in building the platform to afford the bended and wedge DNA with the flipped out nucleotide. The helix-hairpin-helix motif and the insertion residue L125 in free structure can be located without severe contacts. The alkylated base is surrounded with a variety of aromatic rings, such as W218, W272, Y273 and F18. The aromatic indole ring of tryptophan is a good candidate for forming the stacking with the positively charged base moiety pi-cation interaction). Some hydrophobic residues, such as V128 and L240, also attend to substrate recognition.
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Keywords	Amino Acid Motifs; Catalytic Domain; Crystallography, X-Ray; DNA Damage; DNA Glycosylases; DNA Repair; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Models, Molecular; N-Glycosyl Hydrolases/chemistry; N-Glycosyl Hydrolases/metabolism; Protein Conformation; Substrate Specificity
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