Article Dans Une Revue Biomolecules Année : 2025

Mechanisms of DNA Damage Recognition by UDG and PARP1 in the Nucleosome

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The DNA base-excision repair (BER) pathway shares the second part of its enzymatic chain with the single-strand break (SSB) repair pathway. BER is initiated by a glycosylase, such as UDG, while SSBR is initiated by the multifunctional enzyme PARP1. The very early steps in the identification of the DNA damage are crucial to the correct initiation of the repair chains, and become even more complex when considering the realistic environment of damage to the DNA in the nucleosome. We performed molecular dynamics computer simulations of the interaction between the glycosylase UDG and a mutated uracil (as could result from oxidative deamination of cytosine), and between the Zn1-Zn2 fragment of PARP1 and a simulated SSB. The model system is a whole nucleosome in which DNA damage is inserted at various typical positions along the 145-bp sequence. It is shown that damage recognition by the enzymes requires very strict conditions, unlikely to be matched by pure random search along the DNA. We propose that mechanical deformation of the DNA around the defective sites may help signaling the presence of the defect, accelerating the search process.

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hal-05147938 , version 1 (07-07-2025)

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Safwen Ghediri, Parvathy A Sarma, Vinnarasi Saravanan, Corinne Abbadie, Ralf Blossey, et al.. Mechanisms of DNA Damage Recognition by UDG and PARP1 in the Nucleosome. Biomolecules, 2025, 15, ⟨10.3390/biom15050649⟩. ⟨hal-05147938⟩
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