1EH6

HUMAN O6-ALKYLGUANINE-DNA ALKYLTRANSFERASE

Summary for 1EH6

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb1eh6/pdb
• Related: 1EH7 1EH8
• Descriptor: O6-ALKYLGUANINE-DNA ALKYLTRANSFERASE, ZINC ION (3 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: alkyltransferase, methyltransferase, dna repair, transferase
• Biological source: Homo sapiens (human)
• Cellular location: Nucleus: P16455
• Total number of polymer chains: 1
• Total formula weight: 21737.36

Authors

Daniels, D.S.,Tainer, J.A. (deposition date: 2000-02-18, release date: 2000-04-12, Last modification date: 2024-02-07)

Primary citation

Daniels, D.S.,Mol, C.D.,Arvai, A.S.,Kanugula, S.,Pegg, A.E.,Tainer, J.A.
Active and alkylated human AGT structures: a novel zinc site, inhibitor and extrahelical base binding.
EMBO J., 19:1719-1730, 2000

PubMed Abstract: Human O(6)-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT), which directly reverses endogenous alkylation at the O(6)-position of guanine, confers resistance to alkylation chemotherapies and is therefore an active anticancer drug target. Crystal structures of active human AGT and its biologically and therapeutically relevant methylated and benzylated product complexes reveal an unexpected zinc-stabilized helical bridge joining a two-domain alpha/beta structure. An asparagine hinge couples the active site motif to a helix-turn-helix (HTH) motif implicated in DNA binding. The reactive cysteine environment, its position within a groove adjacent to the alkyl-binding cavity and mutational analyses characterize DNA-damage recognition and inhibitor specificity, support a structure-based dealkylation mechanism and suggest a molecular basis for destabilization of the alkylated protein. These results support damaged nucleotide flipping facilitated by an arginine finger within the HTH motif to stabilize the extrahelical O(6)-alkylguanine without the protein conformational change originally proposed from the empty Ada structure. Cysteine alkylation sterically shifts the HTH recognition helix to evidently mechanistically couple release of repaired DNA to an opening of the protein fold to promote the biological turnover of the alkylated protein.

PubMed: 10747039
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.7.1719

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2 Å)