Fishel Richard
From the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio 43210 and the Department of Physics and the Biophysics Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
J Biol Chem. 2015 Oct 30;290(44):26395-403. doi: 10.1074/jbc.R115.660142. Epub 2015 Sep 9.
Highly conserved MutS homologs (MSH) and MutL homologs (MLH/PMS) are the fundamental components of mismatch repair (MMR). After decades of debate, it appears clear that the MSH proteins initiate MMR by recognizing a mismatch and forming multiple extremely stable ATP-bound sliding clamps that diffuse without hydrolysis along the adjacent DNA. The function(s) of MLH/PMS proteins is less clear, although they too bind ATP and are targeted to MMR by MSH sliding clamps. Structural analysis combined with recent real-time single molecule and cellular imaging technologies are providing new and detailed insight into the thermal-driven motions that animate the complete MMR mechanism.
高度保守的错配修复蛋白MutS同源物(MSH)和MutL同源物(MLH/PMS)是错配修复(MMR)的基本组成部分。经过数十年的争论,现在似乎已经明确,MSH蛋白通过识别错配并形成多个极其稳定的ATP结合滑动夹来启动MMR,这些滑动夹沿相邻DNA扩散而不水解。MLH/PMS蛋白的功能尚不清楚,尽管它们也结合ATP并通过MSH滑动夹靶向MMR。结构分析与最近的实时单分子和细胞成像技术相结合,正在为驱动完整MMR机制的热驱动运动提供新的详细见解。