Chemical Shift Changes Provide Evidence for Overlapping Single‐stranded DNA‐ and XPA‐binding Sites on the 70 kDa Subunit of Human Replication Protein A
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkg451
Abstract
Replication protein A (RPA) is a heterotrimeric single‐stranded DNA‐ (ssDNA) binding protein that can form a complex with the xeroderma pigmentosum group A protein (XPA). This complex can preferentially recognize UV‐damaged DNA over undamaged DNA and has been implicated in the stabilization of open complex formation during nucleotide excision repair. In this report, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was used to investigate the interaction between a fragment of the 70 kDa subunit of human RPA, residues 1–326 (hRPA701–326), and a fragment of the human XPA protein, residues 98–219 (XPA‐MBD). Intensity changes were observed for amide resonances in the 1H–15N correlation spectrum of uniformly 15N‐labeled hRPA701–326 after the addition of unlabeled XPA‐MBD. The intensity changes observed were restricted to an ssDNA‐binding domain that is between residues 183 and 296 of the hRPA701–326 fragment. The hRPA701–326 residues with the largest resonance intensity reductions were mapped onto the structure of the ssDNA‐binding domain to identify the binding surface with XPA‐MBD. The XPA‐MBD‐binding surface showed significant overlap with an ssDNA‐binding surface that was previously identified using NMR spectroscopy and X‐ray crystallography. Overlapping XPA‐MBD‐ and ssDNA‐binding sites on hRPA701–326 suggests that a competitive binding mechanism mediates the formation of the RPA–XPA complex. To determine whether a ternary complex could form between hRPA701–326, XPA‐MBD and ssDNA, a 1H–15N correlation spectrum was acquired for uniformly 15N‐labeled hRPA701–326 after the simultaneous addition of unlabeled XPA‐MBD and ssDNA. In this experiment, the same chemical shift perturbations were observed for hRPA701–326 in the presence of XPA‐MBD and ssDNA as was previously observed in the presence of ssDNA alone. The ability of ssDNA to compete with XPA‐MBD for an overlapping binding site on hRPA701–326 suggests that any complex formation between RPA and XPA that involves the interaction between XPA‐MBD and hRPA701–326 may be modulated by ssDNA.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Nucleic Acids Research, v. 31, issue 14, p. 4176-4183
Scholar Commons Citation
Daughdrill, Gary W.; Buchko, Garry W.; Botuyan, Maria V.; Arrowsmith, Cheryl; Wold, Marc S.; Kennedy, Michael A.; and Lowry, David F., "Chemical Shift Changes Provide Evidence for Overlapping Single‐stranded DNA‐ and XPA‐binding Sites on the 70 kDa Subunit of Human Replication Protein A" (2003). Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications. 180.
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