Mammalian mitochondrial endonuclease G. Digestion of R-loops and localization in intermembrane space - PubMed (original) (raw)
Mammalian mitochondrial endonuclease G. Digestion of R-loops and localization in intermembrane space
Takashi Ohsato et al. Eur J Biochem. 2002 Dec.
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Abstract
Mammalian mitochondria contain strong nuclease activity. Endonuclease G (endoG), which predominantly resides in mitochondria, accounts for a large part of this nuclease activity. It has been proposed to act as an RNase H-like nuclease on RNA.DNA hybrids (R-loops) in the D-loop region where the origins of mitochondrial replication are mapped, providing RNA primers for mtDNA replication. However, in contrast with this proposed activity, endoG has recently been shown to translocate to nuclei on apoptotic stimulation and act as a nuclease without sequence specificity. To clarify the role of endoG in mtDNA replication, we examined its submitochondrial localization and its ability to cleave R-loops. At low concentration, it preferentially produces double-stranded breaks in R-loops, but does not act as an RNase H-like nuclease. In addition, it exists in the mitochondrial intermembrane space, but not in the matrix where mtDNA replication occurs. These results do not support the involvement of endoG in mtDNA replication. Based on the fact that guanine tracts, which are preferential targets of endoG, tend to form triplex structures and that endoG produces double-stranded breaks in R-loops, we propose that three-stranded DNA may be the preferred substrate of endoG.
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