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La estructura cristalina del cargador de pinzas de procesividad es el complejo gamma (gamma) del ADN polimerasa III
D Jeruzalmi1, M O'Donnell, J Kuriyan
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Cell
|August 30, 2001
Resumen
El complejo gamma bacteriano, un cargador de pinzas de ADN, tiene una estructura cristalina revelada que muestra su disposición pentamérica. Esta estructura sugiere un mecanismo para cómo cambia entre estados cerrados y abiertos para cargar la abrazadera deslizante beta en el ADN.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Biología Estructural Biología estructural.
Sus antecedentes:
- El complejo gamma es el homólogo bacteriano del factor de replicación eucariota C (RFC).
- Funciona como una ATPasa AAA+ y es esencial para la replicación del ADN.
- El complejo gamma carga la abrazadera deslizante, beta (homóloga al PCNA), en el ADN.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para determinar la estructura cristalina del complejo gamma bacteriano.
- Para dilucidar el mecanismo por el cual el complejo gamma interactúa con la abrazadera deslizante beta.
Principales métodos:
- Cristalografía de rayos X con una resolución de 2.7/3.0 A.
Principales resultados:
- La estructura cristalina reveló una disposición pentamérica de las subunidades con estequiometría delta':gamma(3):delta.
- Un collar circular formado por los dominios terminales C soporta una disposición asimétrica de los dominios de unión de ATP terminales N.
- La estructura muestra distintos dominios del estator delta' y de la llave delta.
Conclusiones:
- La estructura sugiere un mecanismo para los cambios conformacionales del complejo gamma.
- El complejo cambia entre un estado cerrado (elemento beta que interactúa oculto) y un estado abierto (delta libre para unirse a beta).
- Este interruptor de conformación es crucial para la función de carga de la abrazadera.
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