Study of SV40 large T antigen nucleotide specificity for DNA unwinding
Tóm tắt
Simian Virus 40 (SV40) Large Tumor Antigen (LT) is an essential enzyme that plays a vital role in viral DNA replication in mammalian cells. As a replicative helicase and initiator, LT assembles as a double-hexamer at the SV40 origin to initiate genomic replication. In this process, LT converts the chemical energy from ATP binding and hydrolysis into the mechanical work required for unwinding replication forks. It has been demonstrated that even though LT primarily utilizes ATP to unwind DNA, other NTPs can also support low DNA helicase activity. Despite previous studies on specific LT residues involved in ATP hydrolysis, no systematic study has been done to elucidate the residues participating in the selective usage of different nucleotides by LT. In this study, we performed a systematic mutational analysis around the nucleotide pocket and identified residues regulating the specificity for ATP, TTP and UTP in LT DNA unwinding. We performed site-directed mutagenesis to generate 16 LT nucleotide pocket mutants and characterized each mutant’s ability to unwind double-stranded DNA, oligomerize, and bind different nucleotides using helicase assays, size-exclusion chromatography, and isothermal titration calorimetry, respectively. We identified four residues in the nucleotide pocket of LT, cS430, tK419, cW393 and cL557 that selectively displayed more profound impact on using certain nucleotides for LT DNA helicase activity. Little is known regarding the mechanisms of nucleotide specificity in SV40 LT DNA unwinding despite the abundance of information available for understanding LT nucleotide hydrolysis. The systematic residue analysis performed in this report provides significant insight into the selective usage of different nucleotides in LT helicase activity, increasing our understanding of how LT may structurally prefer different energy sources for its various targeted cellular activities.
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