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- Title
Visualization of DNA-induced conformational changes in the DNA repair kinase DNA-PKcs.
- Authors
Jasminka Boskovic; Angel Rivera-Calzada; Joseph D. Maman; Pablo Chacón; Keith R. Willison; Laurence H. Pearl; Oscar Llorca
- Abstract
The catalytic subunit of the DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs) is essential for the repair of double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) in non- homologous end joining (NHEJ) and during V(D)J recombination. DNA-PKcs binds single- and double-stranded DNA in vitro, and in vivo the Ku heterodimer probably helps recruit it to DSBs with high affinity. Once loaded onto DNA, DNA-PKcs acts as a scaffold for other repair factors to generate a multiprotein complex that brings the two DNA ends together. Human DNA-PKcs has been analysed by electron microscopy in the absence and presence of double-stranded DNA, and the three-dimensional reconstruction of DNA-bound DNA-PKcs displays large conformational changes when compared with the unbound protein. DNA-PKcs seems to use a palm-like domain to clip onto the DNA, and this new conformation correlates with the activation of the kinase. We suggest that the observed domain movements might help the binding and maintenance of DNA-PKcs' interaction with DNA at the sites of damage, and that these conformational changes activate the kinase.
- Subjects
PROTEIN kinases; DNA repair; ELECTRON microscopy
- Publication
EMBO Journal, 2003, Vol 22, Issue 21, p5875
- ISSN
0261-4189
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/emboj/cdg555