Biochemical Reconstitution of the Mimiviral Base Excision Repair Pathway
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168188
Biochemical Reconstitution of the Mimiviral Base Excision Repair Pathway
Abstract
Viruses are believed to be the obligate intracellular parasites that only carry genes essential for infecting and hijacking the host cell machinery. However, a recently discovered group of viruses belonging to the phylum nucleocytovirocota, also known as the nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs), possess a number of genes that code for proteins predicted to be involved in metabolism, and DNA replication, and repair. In the present study, first, using proteomics of viral particles, we show that several proteins required for the completion of the DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway are packaged within the virions of Mimivirus as well as related viruses while they are absent from the virions of Marseillevirus and Kurlavirus that are NCLDVs with smaller genomes. We have thoroughly characterized three putative base excision repair enzymes from Mimivirus, a prototype NCLDV and successfully reconstituted the BER pathway using the purified recombinant proteins. The mimiviral uracil-DNA glycosylase (mvUDG) excises uracil from both ssDNA and dsDNA, a novel finding contrary to earlier studies. The putative AP-endonuclease (mvAPE) specifically cleaves at the abasic site created by the glycosylase while also exhibiting the 3'-5' exonuclease activity. The Mimivirus polymerase X protein (mvPolX) can bind to gapped DNA substrates and perform single nucleotide gap-filling followed by downstream strand displacement. Furthermore, we show that when reconstituted in vitro, mvUDG, mvAPE, and mvPolX function cohesively to repair a uracil-containing DNA predominantly by long patch BER and together, may participate in the BER pathway during the early phase of Mimivirus life-cycle.
Keywords: BER pathway; DNA polymerase; DNA repair; Mimivirus; glycosylase.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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