| Literature DB >> 21984208 |
Yong Gong1, Deyu Zhu, Jingjin Ding, Chuan-Na Dou, Xiaoming Ren, Lichuan Gu, Tao Jiang, Da-Cheng Wang.
Abstract
Aprataxin is a DNA deadenylase that resolves DNA 5'-AMP termini and reverses abortive DNA ligation. The crystal structures of Schizosaccharomyces pombe aprataxin Hnt3 in its apo form and in complex to dsDNA and dsDNA-AMP reveal how Hnt3 recognizes and processes 5'-adenylated DNA in a structure-specific manner. The bound DNA adopts a 5'-flap conformation that facilitates 5'-AMP access to the active site, where AMP cleavage occurs by a canonical catalytic mechanism.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21984208 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2145
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Struct Mol Biol ISSN: 1545-9985 Impact factor: 15.369