MutL binds to 3' resected DNA ends and blocks DNA polymerase access

Alessandro Borsellini; Joyce H.G. Lebbink; Meindert H. Lamers

doi:10.1093/nar/gkac432

MutL binds to 3' resected DNA ends and blocks DNA polymerase access

Alessandro Borsellini, Joyce H.G. Lebbink, Meindert H. Lamers^*

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DNA mismatch repair removes mis-incorporated bases after DNA replication and reduces the error rate a 100-1000-fold. After recognition of a mismatch, a large section of up to a thousand nucleotides is removed from the daughter strand followed by re-synthesis. How these opposite activities are coordinated is poorly understood. Here we show that the Escherichia coli MutL protein binds to the 3' end of the resected strand and blocks access of Pol I and Pol III. The cryo-EM structure of an 85-kDa MutL-DNA complex, determined to 3.7 Å resolution, reveals a unique DNA binding mode that positions MutL at the 3' end of a primer-template, but not at a 5' resected DNA end or a blunt DNA end. Hence, our work reveals a novel role for MutL in the final stages of mismatch repair by preventing premature DNA synthesis during removal of the mismatched strand.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6224-6234
Number of pages	11
Journal	Nucleic Acids Research
Volume	50
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac432
Publication status	Published - 24 Jun 2022

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Funding Information:
LUMC Research Fellowship (to M.H.L.); European Community's Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Network [722433 to M.H.L., J.H.G.L.]; gravitation program CancerGenomiCs.nl from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), part of the Oncode Institute, which is partly financed by the Dutch Cancer Society; access to NeCEN was supported by the Netherlands Electron Microscopy Infrastructure (NEMI), [184.034.014] of the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Infrastructure of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Funding for open access charge: European Community's Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Network [to M.H.L.].

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