Stimulation of human 8-oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase by AP-endonuclease: Potential coordination of the initial steps in base excision repair

Jeff W. Hill, Tapas K. Hazra, Tadahide Izumi, Sankar Mitra

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Abstract

8-Oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase 1 (OGG1), with intrinsic AP lyase activity, is the major enzyme for repairing 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG), a critical mutagenic DNA lesion induced by reactive oxygen species. Human OGG1 excised the damaged base from an 8-oxoG·C-containing duplex oligo with a very low apparent kcat of 0.1 min-1 at 37°C and cleaved abasic (AP) sites at half the rate, thus leaving abasic sites as the major product. Excision of 8-oxoG by OGG1 alone did not follow Michaelis-Menten kinetics. However, in the presence of a comparable amount of human AP endonuclease (APE1) the specific activity of OGG1 was increased ∼ 5-fold and Michaelis-Menten kinetics were observed. Inactive APE1, at a higher molar ratio, and a bacterial APE (Nfo) similarly enhanced OGG1 activity. The affinity of OGG1 for its product AP·C pair (Kd ∼ 2.8 nM) was substantially higher than for its substrate 8-oxoG·C pair (Kd ∼ 23.4 nM) and the affinity for its final β-elimination product was much lower (Kd ∼ 233 nM). These data, as well as single burst kinetics studies, indicate that the enzyme remains tightly bound to its AP product following base excision and that APE1 prevents its reassociation with its product, thus enhancing OGG1 turnover. These results suggest coordinated functions of OGG1 and APE1, and possibly other enzymes, in the DNA base excision repair pathway.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)430-438
Number of pages9
JournalNucleic acids research
Volume29
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 15 2001

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  • Genetics

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