ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2012
The Q motif of Fanconi anemia group J protein (FANCJ) DNA helicase regulates its dimerization, DNA binding, and DNA repair function.
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- Cryo-EM structures of human FANCJ reveal the mechanism of G-quadruplex unwinding and disease-associated mutations.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Iron-sulfur cofactors in nucleic acid metabolism and protein synthesis: Assembly, delivery, and putative roles in cellular and viral systems.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026Review
- Purification and biochemical characterization of the G4 resolvase and DNA helicase FANCJ.Methods in enzymology · 2024Article
- WRN rescues replication forks compromised by a BRCA2 deficiency: Predictions for how inhibition of a helicase that suppresses premature aging tilts the balance to fork demise and chromosomal instability in cancer.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2022Article
- Mammalian Resilience Revealed by a Comparison of Human Diseases and Mouse Models Associated With DNA Helicase Deficiencies.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Review
- Timeless couples G-quadruplex detection with processing by DDX11 helicase during DNA replication.The EMBO journal · 2020Article
- Mitochondrial genetic variation is enriched in G-quadruplex regions that stall DNA synthesis in vitro.Human molecular genetics · 2020Article
- History of DNA Helicases.Genes · 2020Review
- RareCancer research · 2020Article
- Elucidation of the functional roles of the Q and I motifs in the human chromatin-remodeling enzyme BRG1.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2019Article
- A high-throughput screen to identify novel small molecule inhibitors of the Werner Syndrome Helicase-Nuclease (WRN).PloS one · 2019Article
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- A minimal threshold of FANCJ helicase activity is required for its response to replication stress or double-strand break repair.Nucleic acids research · 2018Article
- RecQ and Fe-S helicases have unique roles in DNA metabolism dictated by their unwinding directionality, substrate specificity, and protein interactions.Biochemical Society transactions · 2018Review
- Interactive Roles of DNA Helicases and Translocases with the Single-Stranded DNA Binding Protein RPA in Nucleic Acid Metabolism.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Review
- G-quadruplex recognition and remodeling by the FANCJ helicase.Nucleic acids research · 2016Article
- G-quadruplexes and helicases.Nucleic acids research · 2016Review
- Tim/Timeless, a member of the replication fork protection complex, operates with the Warsaw breakage syndrome DNA helicase DDX11 in the same fork recovery pathway.Nucleic acids research · 2016Article
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- Emerging critical roles of Fe-S clusters in DNA replication and repair.Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2015Review
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Abstract
The Q motif, conserved in a number of RNA and DNA helicases, is proposed to be important for ATP binding based on structural data, but its precise biochemical functions are less certain. FANCJ encodes a Q motif DEAH box DNA helicase implicated in Fanconi anemia and breast cancer. A Q25A mutation of the invariant glutamine in the Q motif abolished its ability to complement cisplatin or telomestatin sensitivity of a fancj null cell line and exerted a dominant negative effect. Biochemical characterization of the purified recombinant FANCJ-Q25A protein showed that the mutation disabled FANCJ helicase activity and the ability to disrupt protein-DNA interactions. FANCJ-Q25A showed impaired DNA binding and ATPase activity but displayed ATP binding and temperature-induced unfolding transition similar to FANCJ-WT. Size exclusion chromatography and sedimentation velocity analyses revealed that FANCJ-WT existed as molecular weight species corresponding to a monomer and a dimer, and the dimeric form displayed a higher specific activity for ATPase and helicase, as well as greater DNA binding. In contrast, FANCJ-Q25A existed only as a monomer, devoid of helicase activity. Thus, the Q motif is essential for FANCJ enzymatic activity in vitro and DNA repair function in vivo.
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