Mycobacterium smegmatis HelY is an RNA-activated ATPase/dATPase and 3'-to-5' helicase that unwinds 3'-tailed RNA duplexes and RNA:DNA hybrids Journal Article
| Authors: | Uson, M. L.; Ordonez, H.; Shuman, S. |
| Article Title: | Mycobacterium smegmatis HelY is an RNA-activated ATPase/dATPase and 3'-to-5' helicase that unwinds 3'-tailed RNA duplexes and RNA:DNA hybrids |
| Abstract: | Mycobacteria have a large and distinctive ensemble of DNA helicases that function in DNA replication, repair, and recombination. Little is known about the roster of RNA helicases in mycobacteria or their roles in RNA transactions. The 912-amino-acid Mycobacterium smegmatis HelY (MSMEG_3885) protein is a bacterial homolog of the Mtr4 and Ski2 helicases that regulate RNA 3' processing and turnover by the eukaryal exosome. Here we characterize HelY as an RNA-stimulated ATPase/dATPase and an ATP/dATP-dependent 3'-to-5' helicase. HelY requires a 3' single-strand RNA tail (a loading RNA strand) to displace the complementary strand of a tailed RNA:RNA or RNA:DNA duplex. The findings that HelY ATPase is unresponsive to a DNA polynucleotide cofactor and that HelY is unable to unwind a 3'-tailed duplex in which the loading strand is DNA distinguish HelY from other mycobacterial nucleoside triphosphatases/helicases characterized previously. The biochemical properties of HelY, which resemble those of Mtr4/Ski2, hint at a role for HelY in mycobacterial RNA catabolism. © 2015, American Society for Microbiology. |
| Keywords: | unclassified drug; nonhuman; nucleoside triphosphatase; recombinant enzyme; helicase; adenosine triphosphatase; bacterial dna; hydrolysis; mycobacterium smegmatis; dna rna hybridization; bacterial rna; priority journal; article; hely enzyme |
| Journal Title: | Journal of Bacteriology |
| Volume: | 197 |
| Issue: | 19 |
| ISSN: | 0021-9193 |
| Publisher: | American Society for Microbiology |
| Date Published: | 2015-10-01 |
| Start Page: | 3057 |
| End Page: | 3065 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1128/jb.00418-15 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| PUBMED: | 26170411 |
| PMCID: | PMC4560288 |
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| Notes: | Export Date: 2 October 2015 -- Source: Scopus |
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