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Structural basis for a novel mechanism of DNA bridging and alignment in eukaryotic DSB DNA repair

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Eukaryotic DNA polymerase mu of the PolX family can promote the association of the two 3'-protruding ends of a DNA double-strand break (DSB) being repaired (DNA synapsis) even in the absence of the core non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) machinery. Here, we show that terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase (TdT), a closely related PolX involved in V(D)J recombination, has the same property. We solved its crystal structure with an annealed DNA synapsis containing one micro-homology (MH) base pair and one nascent base pair. This structure reveals how the N-terminal domain and Loop 1 of Tdt cooperate for bridging the two DNA ends, providing a templating base in trans and limiting the MH search region to only two base pairs. A network of ordered water molecules is proposed to assist the incorporation of any nucleotide independently of the in trans templating base. These data are consistent with a recent model that explains the statistics of sequences synthesized in vivo by Tdt based solely on this dinucleotide step. Site-directed mutagenesis and functional tests suggest that this structural model is also valid for Pol mu during NHEJ.

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pasteur-02167413 , version 1 (27-06-2019)

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Jérôme Gouge, Sandrine Rosario, Félix Romain, Frédéric Poitevin, Pierre Béguin, et al.. Structural basis for a novel mechanism of DNA bridging and alignment in eukaryotic DSB DNA repair. EMBO Journal, 2015, 34 (8), pp.1126-1142. ⟨10.15252/embj.201489643⟩. ⟨pasteur-02167413⟩
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