[HTML][HTML] Unusual structures and unknown roles of FeS clusters in metalloenzymes seen from a resonance Raman spectroscopic perspective

G Caserta, L Zuccarello, C Barbosa, CM Silveira… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The universe of known biological FeS clusters is constantly enlarging. Besides the
conventional, well described [2Fe–2S],[3Fe–4S] and cubane [4Fe–4S] clusters, novel …

Outlining the complex pathway of mammalian Fe-S cluster biogenesis

N Maio, TA Rouault - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Iron–sulfur (Fe-S) clusters (ISCs) are ubiquitous cofactors essential to numerous
fundamental cellular processes. Assembly of ISCs and their insertion into apoproteins …

Highly ordered and field-free 3D DNA nanostructure: the next generation of DNA nanomachine for rapid single-step sensing

P Zhang, J Jiang, R Yuan, Y Zhuo… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Herein, by directly using Watson–Crick base pairing, a highly ordered and field-free three-
dimensional (3D) DNA nanostructure is self-assembled by azobenzene (azo)-functionalized …

Structural snapshots of base excision by the cancer-associated variant MutY N146S reveal a retaining mechanism

M Demir, LP Russelburg, WJ Lin… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
DNA glycosylase MutY plays a critical role in suppression of mutations resulted from
oxidative damage, as highlighted by cancer-association of the human enzyme. MutY …

Redox chemistry in the genome: emergence of the [4Fe4S] cofactor in repair and replication

JK Barton, RMB Silva, E O'Brien - Annual review of biochemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Many DNA-processing enzymes have been shown to contain a [4Fe4S] cluster, a common
redox cofactor in biology. Using DNA electrochemistry, we find that binding of the DNA …

Impact of transient acquired hypermutability on the inter- and intra-species competitiveness of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

YY On, W Figueroa, C Fan, PM Ho, ÉB Bényei… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Once acquired, hypermutation is unrelenting, and in the long-term, leads to impaired fitness
due to its cumulative impact on the genome. This raises the question of why hypermutators …

Sensing DNA through DNA charge transport

TJ Zwang, ECM Tse, JK Barton - ACS chemical biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
DNA charge transport chemistry involves the migration of charge over long molecular
distances through the aromatic base pair stack within the DNA helix. This migration depends …

Cryo-EM structure and dynamics of eukaryotic DNA polymerase δ holoenzyme

R Jain, WJ Rice, R Malik, RE Johnson… - Nature structural & …, 2019 - nature.com
DNA polymerase δ (Polδ) plays pivotal roles in eukaryotic DNA replication and repair. Polδ
is conserved from yeast to humans, and mutations in human Polδ have been implicated in …

The [4Fe4S] cluster of yeast DNA polymerase ε is redox active and can undergo DNA-mediated signaling

MN Pinto, J Ter Beek, LA Ekanger… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Many DNA replication and DNA repair enzymes have been found to carry [4Fe4S] clusters.
The major leading strand polymerase, DNA polymerase ε (Pol ε) from Saccharomyces …

A combined Far-FTIR, FTIR Spectromicroscopy, and DFT Study of the Effect of DNA Binding on the [4Fe4S] Cluster Site in EndoIII

A Hassan, LJA Macedo, JCP Souza, FCDA Lima… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Endonuclease III (EndoIII) is a DNA glycosylase that contains the [4Fe4S] cluster, which is
essential for the protein to bind to damaged DNA in a process called base excision repair …