• Bacteriophage origin of some minimal ATP-dependent DNA ligases: a new structure from Burkholderia pseudomallei with striking similarity to Chlorella virus ligase 

      Pan, Jolyn; Lian, Kjersti; Sarre, Aili; Leiros, Hanna-Kirsti Schrøder; Williamson, Adele Kim (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-21)
      DNA ligases, the enzymes responsible for joining breaks in the phosphodiester backbone of DNA during replication and repair, vary considerably in size and structure. The smallest members of this enzyme class carry out their functions with pared-down protein scaffolds comprising only the core catalytic domains. Here we use sequence similarity network analysis of minimal DNA ligases from all biological ...
    • The three Endonuclease III variants of Deinococcus radiodurans possess distinct and complementary DNA repair activities 

      Sarre, Aili; Stelter, Meike; Rollo, Filipe; De Bonis, Salvatore; Seck, Anna; Hognon, Cecilia; Ravanat, Jean-Luc; Monari, Antonio; Dehez, Francois; Moe, Elin; Timmins, Joanna (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-28)
      Endonuclease III (EndoIII) is a bifunctional DNA glycosylase that removes oxidized pyrimidines from DNA. The genome of Deinococcus radiodurans encodes for an unusually high number of DNA glycosylases, including three EndoIII enzymes (drEndoIII1-3). Here, we compare the properties of these enzymes to those of their well-studied homologues from E. coli and human. Our biochemical and mutational data, ...