Key Players in I-DmoI Endonuclease Catalysis Revealed from Structure and Dynamics

Rafael Molina; Neva Besker; Maria Jose Marcaida; Guillermo Montoya; Jesús Prieto; Marco D'Abramo

doi:10.1021/acschembio.5b00730

Key Players in I-DmoI Endonuclease Catalysis Revealed from Structure and Dynamics

Rafael Molina, Neva Besker, Maria Jose Marcaida, Guillermo Montoya, Jesús Prieto, Marco D'Abramo

Protein Structure and Function Program

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Abstract

Homing endonucleases, such as I-DmoI, specifically recognize and cleave long DNA target sequences (∼20 bp) and are potentially powerful tools for genome manipulation. However, inefficient and off-target DNA cleavage seriously limits specific editing in complex genomes. One approach to overcome these limitations is to unambiguously identify the key structural players involved in catalysis. Here, we report the E117A I-DmoI mutant crystal structure at 2.2 Å resolution that, together with the wt and Q42A/K120M constructs, is combined with computational approaches to shed light on protein cleavage activity. The cleavage mechanism was related both to key structural effects, such as the position of water molecules and ions participating in the cleavage reaction, and to dynamical effects related to protein behavior. In particular, we found that the protein perturbation pattern significantly changes between cleaved and noncleaved DNA strands when the ions and water molecules are correctly positioned for the nucleophilic attack that initiates the cleavage reaction, in line with experimental enzymatic activity. The proposed approach paves the way for an effective, general, and reliable procedure to analyze the enzymatic activity of endonucleases from a very limited data set, i.e., structure and dynamics.

Original language	English
Journal	ACS chemical biology
Volume	11
Issue number	5
Pages (from-to)	1401–1407
ISSN	1554-8929
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.5b00730
Publication status	Published - 20 May 2016

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