Nucleic Acids Research, 2003, Vol. 31, No. 11 2778-2785
© 2003 Oxford University Press
Domain mapping of Escherichia coli RecQ defines the roles of conserved N- and C-terminal regions in the RecQ family
Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, 550 Medical Science Center, 1300 University Avenue, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1532, USA
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RecQ DNA helicases function in DNA replication, recombination and repair. Although the precise cellular roles played by this family of enzymes remain elusive, the importance of RecQ proteins is clear; mutations in any of three human RecQ genes lead to genomic instability and cancer. In this report, proteolysis is used to define a two-domain structure for Escherichia coli RecQ, revealing a large (
59 kDa) N-terminal and a small (9 kDa) C-terminal domain. A short N-terminal segment (7 or 21 residues) is also shown to be sensitive to proteases. The effects of removing these regions of RecQ are tested in vitro. Removing 21 N-terminal residues from RecQ severely diminishes its DNA-dependent ATPase and helicase activities, but does not affect its ability to bind DNA in electrophoretic mobility shift assays. In contrast, removing the 9 kDa C-terminal domain from RecQ results in a fragment with normal levels of ATPase and helicase activity, but that has lost the ability to stably associate with DNA. These results establish the biochemical roles of an N-terminal sequence motif in RecQ catalytic function and for the C-terminal RecQ domain in stable DNA binding.
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