RPA stabilizes the XPA-damaged DNA complex through protein-protein interaction

Mu Wang, Alan Mahrenholz, Suk Hee Lee*

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Abstract

The xeroderma pigmentosum group A complementing protein (XPA) and eukaryotic replication protein A (RPA) are among the major damage-recognition proteins involved in the early stage of nucleotide excision repair (NER). XPA and RPA are able to bind damaged DNA independently, although RPA interaction stimulates XPA binding to damaged DNA [Li, L., Lu, X., Peterson, C. A., and Legerski, R. J. (1995) Mol. Cell. Biol. 15, 5396-5402 (I); Stigger, E., Drissi, R., and Lee, S.-H. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 9337-9343 (2)]. In this study, we used surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analysis to investigate the interaction of XPA and RPA with two major types of UV-damaged DNA: the (6-4) photoproduct and the cis-syn cyclobutane dimer of thymidine. Both XPA and RPA preferentially bind to (6-4) photoproduct-containing duplex DNA over cis-syn cyclobutane dimer-containing DNA. The binding of XPA to (6-4) photoproduct was weak (K(D) = 2.13 x 10-8 M), whereas RPA showed a very stable interaction with (6-4) photoproduct (K(D) = 2.02 x 10-10 M). When XPA and RPA were incubated together, the stability of the XPA-damaged DNA interaction was significantly enhanced by wild-type RPA. On the other hand, mutant RPA (RPA:p34Δ33C) defective in its interaction with XPA failed to stabilize XPA- damaged DNA complex. Taken together, our results suggest that a role for RPA in UV-damage recognition is to stabilize XPA-damaged DNA complex through protein-protein interaction.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6433-6439
Number of pages7
JournalBiochemistry
Volume39
Issue number21
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 May 2000
Externally publishedYes

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