Complementary roles for exonuclease 1 and Flap endonuclease 1 in maintenance of triplet repeats.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Aarthy C Vallur, Nancy Maizels

Abstract

Trinucleotide repeats can form stable secondary structures that promote genomic instability. To determine how such structures are resolved, we have defined biochemical activities of the related RAD2 family nucleases, FEN1 (Flap endonuclease 1) and EXO1 (exonuclease 1), on substrates that recapitulate intermediates in DNA replication. Here, we show that, consistent with its function in lagging strand replication, human (h) FEN1 could cleave 5'-flaps bearing structures formed by CTG or CGG repeats, although less efficiently than unstructured flaps. hEXO1 did not exhibit endonuclease activity on 5'-flaps bearing structures formed by CTG or CGG repeats, although it could excise these substrates. Neither hFEN1 nor hEXO1 was affected by the stem-loops formed by CTG repeats interrupting duplex regions adjacent to 5'-flaps, but both enzymes were inhibited by G4 structures formed by CGG repeats in analogous positions. Hydroxyl radical footprinting showed that hFEN1 binding caused hypersensitivity near the flap/duplex junction, whereas hEXO1 binding caused hypersensitivity very close to the 5'-end, correlating with the predominance of hFEN1 endonucleolytic activity versus hEXO1 exonucleolytic activity on 5'-flap substrates. These results...Continue Reading

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