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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 280, Issue 28, 25973-25981, July 15, 2005

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Novel 3'-Ribonuclease and 3'-Phosphatase Activities of the Bacterial Non-homologous End-joining Protein, DNA Ligase D^*

Hui Zhu and Stewart Shuman

From the Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10021

Pseudomonas aeruginosa DNA ligase D (PaeLigD) exemplifies a family of bacterial DNA end-joining proteins that consist of a ligase domain fused to a polymerase domain and a putative nuclease module. The LigD polymerase preferentially adds single ribonucleotides at blunt DNA ends and, as we show here, is also capable of adding up to 4 ribonucleotides to a DNA primer-template. We report that PaeLigD has an intrinsic ability to resect the short tract of 3'-ribonucleotides of a primer-template substrate to the point at which the primer strand has a single 3'-ribonucleotide remaining. The failure to digest beyond this point reflects a requirement for a 2'-OH group on the penultimate nucleoside of the primer strand. Replacing the 2'-OH by a 2'-F, 2'-NH₂, 2'-OCH₃, or 2'-H abolishes the resection reaction. The ribonucleotide resection activity resides within a 187-amino acid N-terminal nuclease domain and is the result of at least two component steps: (i) the 3'-terminal nucleoside is first removed to yield a primer strand with a ribonucleoside 3'-PO₄ terminus, and (ii) the 3'-PO₄ is hydrolyzed to a 3'-OH. The 3'-ribonuclease and 3'-phosphatase activities are both dependent on a divalent cation, specifically manganese. PaeLigD preferentially remodels the 3'-ends of a duplex primer-template substrate rather than a single strand of identical composition, and it prefers DNA primer strands containing a short 3'-ribonucleotide tract to an all-RNA primer. The nuclease domain of PaeLigD and its bacterial homologs has no apparent structural or mechanistic similarity to previously characterized nucleases. Thus, we surmise that it exemplifies a novel phosphoesterase family, defined in part by conserved residues Asp-50, Arg-52, and His-84, which are essential for the 3'-ribonuclease and 3'-phosphatase reactions.

Received for publication, April 13, 2005 , and in revised form, May 11, 2005.

^* This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant GM63611. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

An American Cancer Society Research Professor. To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: s-shuman{at}ski.mskcc.org.

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