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ArticlePLoS genetics2013

Dominant mutations in S. cerevisiae PMS1 identify the Mlh1-Pms1 endonuclease active site and an exonuclease 1-independent mismatch repair pathway.

Catherine E Smith, Marc L Mendillo, Nikki Bowen, Hans Hombauer, Christopher S Campbell, Arshad Desai, Christopher D Putnam, Richard D Kolodner

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Article in PLoS genetics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Catherine E SmithLudwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
Marc L Mendillo
Nikki Bowen
Hans Hombauer
Christopher S Campbell
Arshad Desai
Christopher D Putnam
Richard D Kolodner
Ludwig Cancer Research · US

Funding

ENZYMOLOGY OF MISMATCH REPAIR IN YEASTR01GM050006 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Richard D Kolodner · 1994 to 2026
$10.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM50006NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM050006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolypsis colorectal cancer or HNPCC) is a common cancer predisposition syndrome. Predisposition to cancer in this syndrome results from increased accumulation of mutations due to defective mismatch repair (MMR) caused by a mutation in one of the mismatch repair genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2/scPMS1. To better understand the function of Mlh1-Pms1 in MMR, we used Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify six pms1 mutations (pms1-G683E, pms1-C817R, pms1-C848S, pms1-H850R, pms1-H703A and pms1-E707A) that were weakly dominant in wild-type cells, which surprisingly caused a strong MMR defect when present on low copy plasmids in an exo1Δ mutant. Molecular modeling showed these mutations caused amino acid substitutions in the metal coordination pocket of the Pms1 endonuclease active site and biochemical studies showed that they inactivated the endonuclease activity. This model of Mlh1-Pms1 suggested that the Mlh1-FERC motif contributes to the endonuclease active site. Consistent with this, the mlh1-E767stp mutation caused both MMR and endonuclease defects similar to those caused by the dominant pms1 mutations whereas mutations affecting the predicted metal coordinating residue Mlh1-C769 had no effect. These studies establish that the Mlh1-Pms1 endonuclease is required for MMR in a previously uncharacterized Exo1-independent MMR pathway.

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Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCarrier ProteinsCatalytic DomainColorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary NonpolyposisDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA Mismatch RepairExodeoxyribonucleasesHumansMutationMutL Protein Homolog 1MutL ProteinsProtein Structure, TertiarySaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSignal TransductionAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCarrier ProteinsDNA-Binding Proteinsexodeoxyribonuclease IExodeoxyribonucleasesMLH1 protein, S cerevisiaeMutL Protein Homolog 1MutL ProteinsPMS1 protein, S cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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PMID24204293
PMCPMC3814310
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