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Title | Cracking the DNA Code for V(D)J Recombination. |
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Journal, issue, pages | Mol Cell, Vol. 70, Issue 2, Page 358-370.e4, Year 2018 |
Publish date | Apr 19, 2018 |
Authors | Min-Sung Kim / Watchalee Chuenchor / Xuemin Chen / Yanxiang Cui / Xing Zhang / Z Hong Zhou / Martin Gellert / Wei Yang / |
PubMed Abstract | To initiate V(D)J recombination for generating the adaptive immune response of vertebrates, RAG1/2 recombinase cleaves DNA at a pair of recombination signal sequences, the 12- and 23-RSS. We have ...To initiate V(D)J recombination for generating the adaptive immune response of vertebrates, RAG1/2 recombinase cleaves DNA at a pair of recombination signal sequences, the 12- and 23-RSS. We have determined crystal and cryo-EM structures of RAG1/2 with DNA in the pre-reaction and hairpin-forming complexes up to 2.75 Å resolution. Both protein and DNA exhibit structural plasticity and undergo dramatic conformational changes. Coding-flank DNAs extensively rotate, shift, and deform for nicking and hairpin formation. Two intertwined RAG1 subunits crisscross four times between the asymmetric pair of severely bent 12/23-RSS DNAs. Location-sensitive bending of 60° and 150° in 12- and 23-RSS spacers, respectively, must occur for RAG1/2 to capture the nonamers and pair the heptamers for symmetric double-strand breakage. DNA pairing is thus sequence-context dependent and structure specific, which partly explains the "beyond 12/23" restriction. Finally, catalysis in crystallo reveals the process of DNA hairpin formation and its stabilization by interleaved base stacking. |
External links | Mol Cell / PubMed:29628308 / PubMed Central |
Methods | EM (single particle) / X-ray diffraction |
Resolution | 2.75 - 4.15 Å |
Structure data | EMDB-7470: RAG1/2 HFC complex EMDB-7480, PDB-6cij: PDB-5zdz: PDB-5ze0: PDB-5ze1: PDB-5ze2: PDB-6cik: PDB-6cil: PDB-6cim: |
Chemicals | ChemComp-CA: ChemComp-ZN: ChemComp-EDO: ChemComp-K: ChemComp-HOH: ChemComp-MG: ChemComp-MN: |
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Keywords | DNA BINDING PROTEIN / V(D)J recombination / RAG1-2-12RSS-23RSS complex / Hairpin forming complex / Hairpin complex / RECOMBINATION / RAG1/2 / RSS / Immunity / RECOMBINATION/DNA / RECOMBINATION-DNA complex / VDJ recombination |