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Query: UMLS:C0043346 (xeroderma pigmentosum)
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A human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity, called AP endonuclease I, is missing from or altered specifically in cells cultured from Xeroderma pigmentosum group-D individuals (XP-D cells) (Kuhnlein, U., Lee, B., Penhoet, E. E., and Linn, S. (1978) Nucleic Acids Res. 5,951-960). We have now observed that another nuclease activity, UV endonuclease III, is similarly not detected in XP-D cells and is inseparable from the AP endonuclease I activity. This activity preferentially cleaves the phosphodiester backbone of heavily ultraviolet-irradiated DNA at unknown lesions as well as at one of the phosphodiester bonds within a cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer. The nuclease activities have been purified from mouse cells to yield a peptide of M(r) = 32,000, whose sequence indicates identity with ribosomal protein S3. The nuclease activities all cross-react with immunopurified antibody directed against authentic rat ribosomal protein S3, and, upon expression in Escherichia coli of a cloned rat cDNA for ribosomal protein S3, each of the activities was recovered and was indistinguishable from those of the mammalian UV endonuclease III. Moreover, the protein expressed in E. coli and its activities cross-react with the rat protein antibody. Ribosomal protein S3 contains a potential nuclear localization signal, and the protein isolated as a nuclease also has a glycosylation pattern consistent with a nuclear localization as determined by lectin binding. The unexpected role of a ribosomal protein in DNA damage processing and the unexplained inability to detect the nuclease activities in extracts from XP-D cells are discussed.
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PMID:Implication of mammalian ribosomal protein S3 in the processing of DNA damage. 777 13

The human ribosomal protein S3 (hS3) possesses associated activities that suggest alternative roles beyond its participation in protein translation. For example, it is capable of cleaving apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) DNA via a beta-elimination reaction, an activity that is missing in partially purified extracts of xeroderma pigmentosum group-D fibroblasts. In a recent study, we showed by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) that hS3 also has a very high apparent binding affinity for 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) and AP sites in DNA. Using the same SPR technology, it is shown here that hS3 positively interacts with the human base excision repair (BER) enzymes N-glycosylase/AP lyase OGG1 and APE/Ref-1. Using a DNA substrate that allows for the detection of 8-oxoG repair, we also show that hOGG1 N-glycosylase activity becomes increasingly more robust in the presence of hS3. Human S3 was found to co-immunoprecipitate with both hOGG1 and APE/Ref-1, indicating that these proteins physically interact with one another. These results raise the possibility that hS3 not only functions as a ribosomal protein but, in addition, may influence repair activities at sites of DNA damage.
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PMID:Human ribosomal protein S3 interacts with DNA base excision repair proteins hAPE/Ref-1 and hOGG1. 1551 71