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ArticleNature structural & molecular biology2014

Ty3 reverse transcriptase complexed with an RNA-DNA hybrid shows structural and functional asymmetry.

Elżbieta Nowak, Jennifer T Miller, Marion K Bona, Justyna Studnicka, Roman H Szczepanowski, Jakub Jurkowski, Stuart F J Le Grice, Marcin Nowotny

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Article in Nature structural & molecular biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Elżbieta NowakLaboratory of Protein Structure, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
Jennifer T MillerReverse Transcriptase Biochemistry Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
Marion K BonaReverse Transcriptase Biochemistry Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
Justyna StudnickaLaboratory of Protein Structure, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
Roman H SzczepanowskiBiophysics Core Facility, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
Jakub JurkowskiLaboratory of Protein Structure, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
Stuart F J Le GriceReverse Transcriptase Biochemistry Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
Marcin NowotnyLaboratory of Protein Structure, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland.

Funding

Nucleic Acid Footprinting and development of small molecule antagonistsZIABC010493 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI LE GRICE, STUART F. J. · 2009 to 2021
$9.3M
High-Resolution Protein and Nucleic Acid FootprintingZ01BC010493 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI LE GRICE, STUART F. J. · 2003 to 2008
$1.2M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteIntramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010493NCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001E
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retrotransposons are a class of mobile genetic elements that replicate by converting their single-stranded RNA intermediate to double-stranded DNA through the combined DNA polymerase and ribonuclease H (RNase H) activities of the element-encoded reverse transcriptase (RT). Although a wealth of structural information is available for lentiviral and gammaretroviral RTs, equivalent studies on counterpart enzymes of long terminal repeat (LTR)-containing retrotransposons, from which they are evolutionarily derived, is lacking. In this study, we report the first crystal structure of a complex of RT from the Saccharomyces cerevisiae LTR retrotransposon Ty3 in the presence of its polypurine tract-containing RNA-DNA hybrid. In contrast to its retroviral counterparts, Ty3 RT adopts an asymmetric homodimeric architecture whose assembly is substrate dependent. Moreover, our structure and biochemical data suggest that the RNase H and DNA polymerase activities are contributed by individual subunits of the homodimer.

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RetroelementsBinding SitesCrystallography, X-RayDimerizationDNAModels, MolecularProtein Structure, TertiaryRibonuclease HRNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsDNARetroelementsreverse transcriptase Ty3, S cerevisiaeRibonuclease HRNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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PMID24608367
PMCPMC6321743

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