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Characterization Of Human Dutpase, Shawna Marie Rotoli
Characterization Of Human Dutpase, Shawna Marie Rotoli
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Theses and Dissertations
Deoxyuridine nucleotidyl transferase (dUTPase) is an enzyme found in all organisms that have thymine as a component of DNA. It catalyzes the hydrolysis of dUTP to dUMP and pyrophosphate thus precluding the buildup of dUTP pools as well as providing the substrate, dUMP, for the de novo synthesis of thymidylate. In Homo sapiens, there are four isoforms: mitochondrial (mDut), nuclear (nDut), variant 3 and variant 4. This work is largely focused on nDut. Using structural and MS analyses of recombinant dUTPase constructs, an intermolecular disulfide bridge between cysteine-3 of each nDut monomer was discovered. It was found that these two …