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Correlated Mutation In The Evolution Of Catalysis In Uracil Dna Glycosylase Superfamily, Bo Xia, Yingling Liu, Jose Guevara, Jing Li, Celeste Jilich, Ye Yang, Liangjiang Wang, Brian N. Dominy, Weiguo Cao
Correlated Mutation In The Evolution Of Catalysis In Uracil Dna Glycosylase Superfamily, Bo Xia, Yingling Liu, Jose Guevara, Jing Li, Celeste Jilich, Ye Yang, Liangjiang Wang, Brian N. Dominy, Weiguo Cao
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Enzymes in Uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) superfamily are essential for the removal of uracil. Family 4 UDGa is a robust uracil DNA glycosylase that only acts on double-stranded and single-stranded uracil-containing DNA. Based on mutational, kinetic and modeling analyses, a catalytic mechanism involving leaving group stabilization by H155 in motif 2 and water coordination by N89 in motif 3 is proposed. Mutual Information analysis identifies a complexed correlated mutation network including a strong correlation in the EG doublet in motif 1 of family 4 UDGa and in the QD doublet in motif 1 of family 1 UNG. Conversion of EG …