The Crystal Structure of Human Tyrosyl-DNA Phosphodiesterase, Tdp1
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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector Structure, Vol. 10, 237–248, February, 2002, 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. PII S0969-2126(02)00707-4 The Crystal Structure of Human Tyrosyl-DNA Phosphodiesterase, Tdp1 Douglas R. Davies,1 Heidrun Interthal,2 effect of camptothecin appears to require DNA synthe- James J. Champoux,2 and Wim G.J. Hol1,3,4 sis [5–8], suggesting that it is the collision of a replication 1Department of Biochemistry fork with the stalled topoisomerase I that leads to cell Box 357742 death [9, 10]. Since Tdp1 theoretically counteracts the University of Washington effects of camptothecin and its derivatives, drugs that Seattle, Washington 98195 inhibit the phosphodiesterase would be predicted to act 2 Department of Microbiology synergistically with this class of topoisomerase poisons Box 357242 and could be valuable in a combined drug therapy School of Medicine regimen. University of Washington It has recently been shown, based on sequence com- Seattle, Washington 98195 parisons and on a mutational analysis of active site resi- 3 Howard Hughes Medical Institute dues in human Tdp1, that the enzyme belongs to the University of Washington phospholipase D (PLD) superfamily [11]. This conclusion Seattle, Washington 98195 is confirmed by the demonstration of a phosphoenzyme covalent intermediate in the reaction [11]. Other mem- bers of the PLD superfamily, besides phospholipases Summary D, are bacterial phosphatidyl serine, cardiolipin synthe- tases, a bacterial nuclease (Nuc) from Salmonella typhi- Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase (Tdp1) catalyzes the murium, a bacterial toxin, and a number of poxvirus hydrolysis of a phosphodiester bond between a tyro- envelope proteins [12–14]. The N-terminal regions of sine residue and a DNA 3 phosphate. The enzyme these proteins are poorly conserved, and, indeed, the appears to be responsible for repairing the unique first 148 amino acids of human Tdp1 can be removed protein-DNA linkage that occurs when eukaryotic to- without an effect on catalysis in vitro [11]. With the ex- poisomerase I becomes stalled on the DNA in the cell. ception of the poxvirus proteins, which may lack enzy- The 1.69 A˚ crystal structure reveals that human Tdp1 matic activity, all of the enzymes in the superfamily cata- is a monomer composed of two similar domains that lyze a phosphoryl transfer reaction where the acceptor are related by a pseudo-2-fold axis of symmetry. Each is either an alcohol or water. The similar reaction chemis- domain contributes conserved histidine, lysine, and try for the members of the family appears to derive from asparagine residues to form a single active site. The a pair of motifs (referred to as HKD motifs), each of structure of Tdp1 confirms that the protein has many which contains a highly conserved histidine, lysine, and similarities to the members of the phospholipase D aspartate residue in the sequence HxK(x)4D [14]. Since (PLD) superfamily and indicates a similar catalytic the Tdp1 motifs contain the conserved histidine and mechanism. The structure also suggests how the un- lysine residues but lack the aspartate residues, this en- usual protein-DNA substrate binds and provides in- zyme represents a distinct class within the PLD super- sights about the nature of the substrate in vivo. family [11]. It has been suggested, based on an analysis of reaction intermediates and products, that catalysis proceeds with the formation of a phosphoenzyme inter- Introduction mediate that is subsequently cleaved to form the final product [15–17]. In two cases, a histidine in one of the Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase (Tdp1) catalyzes the HKD motifs has been directly implicated as the nucleo- hydrolysis of a phosphodiester bond between a tyrosine phile in the reaction leading to the covalent intermediate residue and a DNA 3Ј phosphate [1]. The only known [18, 19]. Crystal structures of Nuc and a phospholipase example of such a linkage in eukaryotic cells occurs in D reveal that the conserved active site histidine and the enzyme-DNA covalent complex formed when a type lysine residues are clustered and bound to phosphate IB DNA topoisomerase cleaves DNA. Therefore, it has or tungstate ligands in a way that is consistent with the been suggested that Tdp1 is responsible for cleaving proposed chemistry [20, 21]. such complexes when they become stalled on the DNA The exact substrate for Tdp1 in the repair of topoisom- in the cell [1]. Although there is little evidence for the erase I-DNA covalent complexes in vivo is uncertain, formation of such complexes in vivo, there is abundant but a complex containing the native form of human topo- in vitro evidence showing that a variety of conditions isomerase I is cleaved poorly, if at all, by human Tdp1 can prevent or slow religation by topoisomerase I and (H. Interthal and J. Champoux, unpublished data). This therefore cause the trapping of the enzyme on the DNA. result is understandable in view of the structure of the These conditions include DNA damage leading to the topoisomerase I-DNA covalent complex, where the ty- generation of nicks, gaps, or abasic sites, the incorpora- rosyl-DNA phosphodiester bond is completely buried tion of nucleotide analogs, such as Ara-C, or treatment within the complex [22]. Interestingly, a bacteriophage with drugs, such as camptothecin, that poison the topo- Int protein-DNA complex (which also contains a 3Ј DNA isomerase reaction (reviewed in [2–4]). The cytocidal Key words: camptothecin; DNA repair; PLD superfamily; topoisom- 4 Correspondence: [email protected] erase I; tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase Structure 238 Table 1. Data Collection and Refinement Statistics Peak Inflection Remote Data Collection (A˚ ) 0.9792 0.9794 0.9640 Space group P21212P21212P21212 Unit cell dimensions, a, b, c (A˚ ) 52.03, 56.31, 186.45 52.11, 56.36, 186.60 52.17, 56.39, 186.71 Resolution (A˚ ) 1.69 1.69 1.69 Mosaicity (Њ) 0.238 0.281 0.329 Unique reflections 59,625 59,162 57,856 Completeness (highest shell; %) 96.0 (76.4) 95.2 (72.9) 93.1 (66.2) Average I/a 13.42 16.06 18.80 Redundancy 4.48 3.58 3.33 b Rsym (%) 6.3 (19.2) 4.8 (23.4) 5.1 (42.4) Figure of merit 0.540 Refinement Resolution range (A˚ ) 30.0–1.69 Reflections (free) 66,989 (3,349) c Rcrystal/Rfree (%) 19.8/22.9 Rms deviations from ideality Bond lengths (A˚ ) 0.018 Bond angles (Њ) 1.813 Chirality 0.137 a I/ is the mean reflection intensity divided by the estimated error. b Rsym ϭ (⌺|Ihkl ϪϽIϾ|)/(⌺Ihkl), where the average intensity ϽIϾ is taken over all symmetry equivalent measurements and Ihkl is the measured intensity for any given reflection. c Rcrystal ϭ ||Fo| Ϫ |Fc||/|Fo|, where Fo and Fc are the observed and calculated structure factor amplitudes, respectively. Rfree is equivalent to Rcrystal, but calculated for 5% of the reflections chosen at random and omitted from the refinement process. phosphotyrosine linkage) is poorly cleaved by Sacchar- struct also contains a 25-residue N-terminal tag that omyces cerevisiae Tdp1; however, prior heating of the includes a (His)6 affinity sequence, a linker, and a throm- Int-DNA complex to 65ЊC greatly increased cleavage by bin cleavage site. Although this affinity tag is intact in the enzyme [1]. These observations suggest that the the crystallized protein, only four residues at the C-ter- initial topoisomerase I-DNA covalent complex must be minal end of the tag are visible in the electron density processed in some way to make the tyrosine-DNA phos- map and are designated as Glu145Ј–Pro148Ј. The struc- phodiester bond accessible to Tdp1 [1]. ture includes a cis-prolyl peptide bond between Leu576 Here, we present the crystal structure of a fully active and Pro577. Evaluation of the model with PROCHECK N-terminal truncation of human Tdp1 protein that is [23] shows that 89.5% of the residues lie in the most missing the first 148 amino acids. The crystal structure favored regions of the Ramachandran plot, 9.7% in the firmly establishes the relationship with members of the additionally allowed regions, 0.8% in the generously al- PLD superfamily and provides important insights into lowed regions, and none in the disallowed regions. the chemistry of catalysis. Moreover, our structure sug- The Tdp1 structure (Figures 2A and 2B) contains 11 gests how this unusual enzyme may interact with its ␣ helices and 17  strands as identified by DSSP [24]. protein-DNA substrate. For simplicity, the designations of DSSP were modified so that ␣ turns that included only a single hydrogen Results and Discussion bond were not classified as numbered ␣-helical seg- ments. The tertiary structure can be described as an Description of Human Tdp1 ⌬1Ϫ148 Structure ␣--␣--␣ sandwich composed of two ␣--␣ domains The crystal structure of human Tdp1 was solved by that are related by a pseudo-2-fold axis of symmetry. multiwavelength anomalous dispersion methods from The N-terminal domain extends from Gly149 to Thr350 selenomethionine-labeled protein. The 1.69 A˚ structure (Figure 2, blue), and the C-terminal domain runs from has a crystallographic R factor of 19.8% and an Rfree Asn351 to Ser608 (Figure 2, yellow). Each domain has of 22.9%. Data collection, processing, and structural in common a seven-stranded mixed parallel-antiparallel refinement statistics are listed in Table 1, and a repre-  sheet and two conserved ␣ helices (␣1 and ␣2of sentative view of the electron density map is shown the N-terminal domain correspond to ␣6 and ␣7ofthe in Figure 1. The protein construct was an N-terminal C-terminal domain, respectively).