TY - JOUR AU - Christou, Nina Eleni AU - Apostolopoulou, Virginia AU - Melo, Diogo AU - Ruppert, Matthias AU - Fadini, Alisia AU - Henkel, Alessandra AU - Sprenger, Janina AU - Oberthuer, Dominik AU - Günther, Sebastian AU - Pateras, Anastasios AU - Rahmani Mashhour, Aida AU - Yefanov, Oleksandr M. AU - Galchenkova, Marina AU - Reinke, Patrick Y. A. AU - Kremling, Viviane AU - Scheer, T. Emilie S. AU - Lange, Esther R. AU - Middendorf, Philipp AU - Schubert, Robin AU - De Zitter, Elke AU - Lumbao-Conradson, Koya AU - Herrmann, Jonathan AU - Rahighi, Simin AU - Kunavar, Ajda AU - Beale, Emma V. AU - Beale, John H. AU - Cirelli, Claudio AU - Johnson, Philip J. M. AU - Dworkowski, Florian AU - Ozerov, Dmitry AU - Bertrand, Quentin AU - Wranik, Maximilian AU - Bacellar, Camila AU - Bajt, Saša AU - Wakatsuki, Soichi AU - Sellberg, Jonas A. AU - Huse, Nils AU - Turk, Dušan AU - Chapman, Henry N. AU - Lane, Thomas J. TI - Time-resolved crystallography captures light-driven DNA repair JO - Science / Science now VL - 382 IS - 6674 SN - 0036-8075 CY - Washington, DC PB - Assoc. M1 - PUBDB-2023-03865 SP - 1015 - 1020 PY - 2023 N1 - ISSN 1095-9203 not unique: **3 hits**. Copyright © 2023 the authors AB - Photolyase is an enzyme that uses light to catalyze DNA repair. To capture the reaction intermediates involved in the enzyme’s catalytic cycle, we conducted a time-resolved crystallography experiment. We found that photolyase traps the excited state of the active cofactor, flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), in a highly bent geometry. This excited state performs electron transfer to damaged DNA, inducing repair. We show that the repair reaction, which involves the lysis of two covalent bonds, occurs through a single-bond intermediate. The transformation of the substrate into product crowds the active site and disrupts hydrogen bonds with the enzyme, resulting in stepwise product release, with the 3′ thymine ejected first, followed by the 5′ base. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:38033070 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001243375200004 DO - DOI:10.1126/science.adj4270 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/586311 ER -