An archaeal Holliday junction resolving enzyme from Sulfolobus solfataricus exhibits unique properties |
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Authors: | Kvaratskhelia M White M F |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biochemistry, MSI/WTB Complex, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK. |
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Abstract: | The rearrangement and repair of DNA by homologous recombination often involves the creation of Holliday junctions, which must be cleaved by junction-specific endonucleases to yield recombinant duplex DNA products. Holliday junction resolving enzymes are a ubiquitous class of proteins with diverse structural and mechanistic characteristics. We have characterised an endonuclease (Hje) from the thermophilic crenarchaeote Sulfolobus solfataricus that exhibits a high degree of specificity for Holliday junctions via an apparently novel mechanism. Hje resolves four-way DNA junctions by the introduction of paired nicks in a reaction that is independent of the local nucleotide sequence, but is restricted solely to strands that are continuous in the stacked-X form of the junction. Three-way DNA junctions are cleaved only when the presence of a bulge in one strand allows the junction to stack in an analogous manner to four-way junctions. These properties differentiate Hje from all other known junction resolving enzymes. |
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