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Mini Review - (2022) Volume 8, Issue 4

Strength and Recondition of DNA in Pyrolobus fumarii Archaea

Dennis W Grogan*
 
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0006, USA
 
*Correspondence: Dennis W Grogan, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0006, USA, Email:

Received: 27-Jul-2022, Manuscript No. Ipmedt-22-12904; Editor assigned: 29-Jul-2022, Pre QC No. Ipmedt-22-12904; Reviewed: 12-Aug-2022, QC No. Ipmedt-22-12904; Revised: 17-Aug-2022, Manuscript No. Ipmedt-22-12904; Published: 24-Aug-2022, DOI: 10.36648/2572-5475-08.04-106

Abstract

Evolutionary and physiological concerns argue that study of pyrolobus fumarii archaea ought to reveal new molecular aspects of DNA stabilization and repair. So far, these uncommon prokaryotes have yielded variety of genes and catalyst activities consistent with known mechanisms of excision repair, Photo-reversal, and trans-lesion synthesis. However, other DNA enzymes of pyrolobus fumarii archaea show novel organic chemistry properties which can be related to DNA stability or repair at extraordinarily high temperature however that stay diffi cult to gauge rigorously in vivo. Maybe the foremost putting feature of pyrolobus fumarii archaea is that every one of them whose genomes are sequenced lack key genes of each the ester excision repair and DNA couple repair pathways, that area unit otherwise extremely preserved in biology. Though the expansion properties of those micro-organisms hinder experimentation, there is evidence that some systems of excision repair and mutation rejection operate in Sulfolobus spp. It will therefore be of strategic signify cancer within the next few years to formulate and check hypotheses in Sulfolobus spp. and alternative Pyrolobus fumarii archaea concerning mechanisms and cistron product concerned within the repair of actinic ray photoproducts and DNA mismatches.

Keywords

Excision; Pyrolobus fumarii; Mutation; Gram-positive bacteria

Introduction

The proposition that DNA succeeded RNA as a genetic material in the pre-biotic world because of its greater stability is perhaps familiar to biologists. What may be less familiar is the idea that DNAâ??s stability is wholly inadequate for the biological success of any modern cellular organism. In reality, a wide gap separates the intrinsic chemical stability of DNA on one hand and the stringent demands of accurate genome propagation on the other [1]. The major DNA repair pathways were identified through the sophisticated genetic analysis made possible by microorganisms such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The historical success of this approach reflects the conservation of these pathways from bacteria to humans, and the fact that, in micro-organisms, they are not essential for viability and can be inactivated by single mutations. It seems logical, therefore, that additional diversity of DNA stabilization and repair remains to be found in microorganisms unrelated to the traditional model species and adapted to survive harsh environmental conditions. All archaea, by definition, fit the first criterion. The environmental extremes accommodated by archaea, high temperature has particular significance for genomic integrity, as it directly destabilizes the primary and secondary structure of DNA and cannot be excluded from the interior of microbial cells. A number of archaea cultured from geothermal environments grow optimally at 80ÃÃÂ??º C or above; these species, here designated "Pyrolobus fumarii archaea".This review attempts a selective, critical overview of recent progress on this topic and questions of current significance [2]. It emphasizes molecular mechanisms of DNA repair, and does not address genome stability as determined by genetic processes such as rearrangements, mutation, and gene loss or acquisition. DNA repair mechanisms intensifi es and biochemical data regarding individual proteins accumulate, it becomes critical to appreciate the tremendous molecular diversity of prokaryotes and our extremely limited knowledge of the cellular and molecular biology of HA. Many DNA-repair proteins studied in model systems have broadly conserved paralogues with no obvious role in DNA stabilization or repair. These are exemplifi ed by the YshD protein of Bacillus subtilis [3].

Discussion

Many of the genetic problems posed by life at high temperature reflect the acceleration of spontaneous DNA decomposition reactions (such as depurination and deamination) that also occur in mesophiles. In one sense, therefore, hyperthermophiles face "ordinary problems writ large", and would seem able to solve them by expressing thermostable versions of known DNA repair enzymes at suitable levels .These studies show, for example, that the low geometric selectivity of the catalytic site encourages the generation of frameshift mutations even at non-repetitive DNA sequences [4]. Unusual biochemical properties also appear among DNA enzymes of HA, however. A type 1B DNA topoisomerase exhibits AP lyase activity, for example, which represents a novel combination of enzyme activities. Of particularly broad signifi cance for HA is the fact that their B-family polymerases, which appear to include the replicative enzymes, stall when they encounter uracil residues in the template strand. The biological function attributed to this feature is prevention of replication past deaminated cytosine residues, thereby avoiding C-to-T transition mutations. What has received less attention, however, is how the cell is supposed to rescue the stalled complex, repair the template strand, and resume DNA synthesis, and why polymerases with this feature should be widespread among thermophilic archaea but not among thermophilic bacteria, which nevertheless tend to have DNAs of higher G+C content. In principle, dissociation of the polymerase and regression of the replication fork could allow the uracil-containing strand to reanneal to its original partner so that BER could repair the lesion [5]. Alternatively, displacement of the replicative polymerase by a specialized TLS polymerase could, in principle, allow for accurate replication past the uracil, in a manner analogous to replication of certain TLS polymerases past UV photoproducts. The possibility that conventional MMR may not suppress spontaneous mutation as effectively in Thermus spp. or hyperthermophilic bacteria as in mesophilic bacteria. It should also be noted that a number of thermostable DNA repair proteins have been isolated from Thermus spp. and characterized [6].

Important proteins missing

The plausible arguments that hyperthermophilic ought to expertise higher rates of spontaneous polymer harm than different organisms; the absence of bound extremely preserved polymer repair proteins in angular distance attracts special attention [7]. This absence of genes encryption identifi ready damage-recognition proteins is to date while not exception all told of the utterly sequenced genomes of angular distance (which numbered eleven at the time of writing) and seems distinctive to the angular distance P, supported the offered genomic sequences of thermophilic archaea, mesophilic archaea, and hyperthermophilic bacterium. This robust conservation of useful pathways outside the hyperthermophilic archaea argues that NER is very important for the organic process success of nonparasitic organisms and lots of parasites. All angular distance genomes sequenced to this point so inscribe some homologues of organism NER nucleases. Taken along, therefore, the info recommend that angular distance have some useful equivalent of NER that uses yet-unknown proteins to acknowledge actinic radiation photoproducts, however could use homologues of organism NER proteins to finish the repair method [8]. Consequently, all organisms identified to hold out post-replication MMR inscribe a minimum of one homologue of every family; eukaryotes dissent from bacterium primarily in having multiple homologues exhibiting larger specialization of perform. correct measuring of loss-of-function mutation within the funeral pyre and pyrF genes has shown that the speed of spontaneous mutation in S. acidocaldarius is at or below the amount of MMR-profi cient E. coli. the info recommend that Sulfolobus spp., and maybe different angular distance, have effective mechanisms of mutation-avoidance that don't involve homologues of the E. coli MutS and MutL proteins. On the opposite hand, Pyrobaculum aerophilum has been claimed to be a natural mutator, supported the frequency of sick sequence variants from its genomic polymer. Higher than 80ÃÃÂ??º C have additionally been sequenced [9]. These hyperthermophilic bacterium inscribe full sets of NER and MMR genes, however few revealed studies have assessed the corresponding accelerator activities, polymer repair capability, or genetic fidelity of those bacterium, most of that area unit strict anaerobes [10]. Aerobic bacterium of the genus Thermus, which might grow at temperatures higher than seventy, is studied a lot of consistently in genetic terms.

Conclusion

Archaea proteins would possibly acknowledge DNA mismatches and the way repair may well be confined to the newer (i.e. daughter) strand. As an example, one doable rationalization for the co-occurring lack of diagnosable damage-recognition proteins for each MMR and NER is that hour angle has a standard damage-recognition system that serves each MMR- and NER-like pathway. Such a super molecule (or set of proteins) might deviate with relevance sequence from the best-known NER and MMR proteins however stay functionally analogous to them by using a lesion-binding mechanism supported induced DNA bending. this idea reflects the recent structural information that show that MutS, (UvrA)2UvrB, and XPA proteins all induce a pointy bend or curve in dsDNA once they bind to their corresponding lesions. This shared feature of those numerous proteins suggests that localized weakening of the DNA duplex by a spread of lesions will â??trapâ?ÂÃÂ? proteins having associate inducedfi t mode of binding of the correct affi nity. tiny dsDNAbinding proteins of Sulfolobus like Sac7d have many properties expected for such damage-sensors. though these tiny, rigid proteins are depicted primarily as chromatin-structuring proteins, their ability to induce sharp bends in traditional duplex DNA and at a match. Archaeal MMR system might discriminate female offspring strand from guide at a match has interest group as a result of the molecular basis of strand discrimination remains obscure in most organisms. This reflects the very fact that Dam/MutH-directed MMR, analysed thus elegantly in E. coli, and doesn't occur in eukaryotes or most microorganism. ORFs that are annotated as non-essential DNA-repair genes would appear to supply ideal test-cases for the utility of those revealed ways. In most cases, the corresponding species ought to conjointly support some basic biological assays of DNA stability and repair, like radiation survival, homologous recombination, induced mutation, or spontaneous mutation.

Acknowledgement

None

Conflict of Interest

None

References

  1. Missura M, Buterin T, Hindges R, Hubscher U, Kasparkova J et al. (2001) Double-check probing of DNA bending and unwinding by XPA-RPA: an architectural function in DNA repair. EMBO J 20: 3554-3564.
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Keywords

Excision; Pyrolobus fumarii; Mutation; Gram-positive bacteria

Introduction

The proposition that DNA succeeded RNA as a genetic material in the pre-biotic world because of its greater stability is perhaps familiar to biologists. What may be less familiar is the idea that DNAâ??s stability is wholly inadequate for the biological success of any modern cellular organism. In reality, a wide gap separates the intrinsic chemical stability of DNA on one hand and the stringent demands of accurate genome propagation on the other [1]. The major DNA repair pathways were identified through the sophisticated genetic analysis made possible by microorganisms such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The historical success of this approach reflects the conservation of these pathways from bacteria to humans, and the fact that, in micro-organisms, they are not essential for viability and can be inactivated by single mutations. It seems logical, therefore, that additional diversity of DNA stabilization and repair remains to be found in microorganisms unrelated to the traditional model species and adapted to survive harsh environmental conditions. All archaea, by definition, fit the first criterion. The environmental extremes accommodated by archaea, high temperature has particular significance for genomic integrity, as it directly destabilizes the primary and secondary structure of DNA and cannot be excluded from the interior of microbial cells. A number of archaea cultured from geothermal environments grow optimally at 80ÃÃÂ??º C or above; these species, here designated "Pyrolobus fumarii archaea".This review attempts a selective, critical overview of recent progress on this topic and questions of current significance [2]. It emphasizes molecular mechanisms of DNA repair, and does not address genome stability as determined by genetic processes such as rearrangements, mutation, and gene loss or acquisition. DNA repair mechanisms intensifi es and biochemical data regarding individual proteins accumulate, it becomes critical to appreciate the tremendous molecular diversity of prokaryotes and our extremely limited knowledge of the cellular and molecular biology of HA. Many DNA-repair proteins studied in model systems have broadly conserved paralogues with no obvious role in DNA stabilization or repair. These are exemplifi ed by the YshD protein of Bacillus subtilis [3].

Discussion

Many of the genetic problems posed by life at high temperature reflect the acceleration of spontaneous DNA decomposition reactions (such as depurination and deamination) that also occur in mesophiles. In one sense, therefore, hyperthermophiles face "ordinary problems writ large", and would seem able to solve them by expressing thermostable versions of known DNA repair enzymes at suitable levels .These studies show, for example, that the low geometric selectivity of the catalytic site encourages the generation of frameshift mutations even at non-repetitive DNA sequences [4]. Unusual biochemical properties also appear among DNA enzymes of HA, however. A type 1B DNA topoisomerase exhibits AP lyase activity, for example, which represents a novel combination of enzyme activities. Of particularly broad signifi cance for HA is the fact that their B-family polymerases, which appear to include the replicative enzymes, stall when they encounter uracil residues in the template strand. The biological function attributed to this feature is prevention of replication past deaminated cytosine residues, thereby avoiding C-to-T transition mutations. What has received less attention, however, is how the cell is supposed to rescue the stalled complex, repair the template strand, and resume DNA synthesis, and why polymerases with this feature should be widespread among thermophilic archaea but not among thermophilic bacteria, which nevertheless tend to have DNAs of higher G+C content. In principle, dissociation of the polymerase and regression of the replication fork could allow the uracil-containing strand to reanneal to its original partner so that BER could repair the lesion [5]. Alternatively, displacement of the replicative polymerase by a specialized TLS polymerase could, in principle, allow for accurate replication past the uracil, in a manner analogous to replication of certain TLS polymerases past UV photoproducts. The possibility that conventional MMR may not suppress spontaneous mutation as effectively in Thermus spp. or hyperthermophilic bacteria as in mesophilic bacteria. It should also be noted that a number of thermostable DNA repair proteins have been isolated from Thermus spp. and characterized [6].

Important proteins missing

The plausible arguments that hyperthermophilic ought to expertise higher rates of spontaneous polymer harm than different organisms; the absence of bound extremely preserved polymer repair proteins in angular distance attracts special attention [7]. This absence of genes encryption identifi ready damage-recognition proteins is to date while not exception all told of the utterly sequenced genomes of angular distance (which numbered eleven at the time of writing) and seems distinctive to the angular distance P, supported the offered genomic sequences of thermophilic archaea, mesophilic archaea, and hyperthermophilic bacterium. This robust conservation of useful pathways outside the hyperthermophilic archaea argues that NER is very important for the organic process success of nonparasitic organisms and lots of parasites. All angular distance genomes sequenced to this point so inscribe some homologues of organism NER nucleases. Taken along, therefore, the info recommend that angular distance have some useful equivalent of NER that uses yet-unknown proteins to acknowledge actinic radiation photoproducts, however could use homologues of organism NER proteins to finish the repair method [8]. Consequently, all organisms identified to hold out post-replication MMR inscribe a minimum of one homologue of every family; eukaryotes dissent from bacterium primarily in having multiple homologues exhibiting larger specialization of perform. correct measuring of loss-of-function mutation within the funeral pyre and pyrF genes has shown that the speed of spontaneous mutation in S. acidocaldarius is at or below the amount of MMR-profi cient E. coli. the info recommend that Sulfolobus spp., and maybe different angular distance, have effective mechanisms of mutation-avoidance that don't involve homologues of the E. coli MutS and MutL proteins. On the opposite hand, Pyrobaculum aerophilum has been claimed to be a natural mutator, supported the frequency of sick sequence variants from its genomic polymer. Higher than 80ÃÃÂ??º C have additionally been sequenced [9]. These hyperthermophilic bacterium inscribe full sets of NER and MMR genes, however few revealed studies have assessed the corresponding accelerator activities, polymer repair capability, or genetic fidelity of those bacterium, most of that area unit strict anaerobes [10]. Aerobic bacterium of the genus Thermus, which might grow at temperatures higher than seventy, is studied a lot of consistently in genetic terms.

Conclusion

Archaea proteins would possibly acknowledge DNA mismatches and the way repair may well be confined to the newer (i.e. daughter) strand. As an example, one doable rationalization for the co-occurring lack of diagnosable damage-recognition proteins for each MMR and NER is that hour angle has a standard damage-recognition system that serves each MMR- and NER-like pathway. Such a super molecule (or set of proteins) might deviate with relevance sequence from the best-known NER and MMR proteins however stay functionally analogous to them by using a lesion-binding mechanism supported induced DNA bending. this idea reflects the recent structural information that show that MutS, (UvrA)2UvrB, and XPA proteins all induce a pointy bend or curve in dsDNA once they bind to their corresponding lesions. This shared feature of those numerous proteins suggests that localized weakening of the DNA duplex by a spread of lesions will â??trapâ?ÂÃÂ? proteins having associate inducedfi t mode of binding of the correct affi nity. tiny dsDNAbinding proteins of Sulfolobus like Sac7d have many properties expected for such damage-sensors. though these tiny, rigid proteins are depicted primarily as chromatin-structuring proteins, their ability to induce sharp bends in traditional duplex DNA and at a match. Archaeal MMR system might discriminate female offspring strand from guide at a match has interest group as a result of the molecular basis of strand discrimination remains obscure in most organisms. This reflects the very fact that Dam/MutH-directed MMR, analysed thus elegantly in E. coli, and doesn't occur in eukaryotes or most microorganism. ORFs that are annotated as non-essential DNA-repair genes would appear to supply ideal test-cases for the utility of those revealed ways. In most cases, the corresponding species ought to conjointly support some basic biological assays of DNA stability and repair, like radiation survival, homologous recombination, induced mutation, or spontaneous mutation.

Acknowledgement

None

Conflict of Interest

None

References

  1. Missura M, Buterin T, Hindges R, Hubscher U, Kasparkova J et al. (2001) Double-check probing of DNA bending and unwinding by XPA-RPA: an architectural function in DNA repair. EMBO J 20: 3554-3564.
  2. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Crossref

  3. Modrich P, Lahue R (1996) Mismatch repair in replication fi delity, genetic recombination, and cancer biology. Ann Rev Biochem 65: 101-133.
  4. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Crossref

  5. Nagawa T, Datta A, Kolodner RD (1999) Multiple functions of MutS- and MutL-related heterocomplexes. Proc Nat Acad Sci  96: 14186-14188.
  6. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Crossref

  7. Parikh SS, Putnam CD, Tainer JA (2000) Lessons learned from structural results on uracil-DNA glycosylase. Mutation Res 460: 183-199.
  8. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Crossref

  9. Peterson JD, Umayam LA, Dickinson TM, Hickey EK, White O (2001) The Comprehensive Microbial Resource. Nucl Acids Res 29: 123-125.
  10. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Crossref

  11. Sato T, Fukui T, Atomi H, Imanaka T (2003) Targeted gene disruption by homologous recombination in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis KOD1. J Bacteriol 185: 210-220.
  12. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Crossref

  13. Starkuviene V, Fritz HJ (2002) A novel type of uracil-DNA glycosylase mediating repair of hydrolytic DNA damage in the extremely thermophilic eubacterium Thermus thermophilus. Nucl Acids Res 30: 2097- 2102.
  14. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Crossref

  15. Takamatsu S, Kato R, Kuramitsu S (1996) Mismatch DNA recognition protein from an extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus HB8. Nucl Acids Res 24: 640-647.
  16. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Crossref

  17. Welz-Voegele C, Stone JE, Tran PT, Kearney HM, Liskay RM et al. (2002) Alleles of the yeast PMS1 mismatch-repair gene that differentially affect recombination- and replication-related processes. Genetics 162: 1131-1145.
  18. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Crossref

  19. Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis M (1990) Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci 87: 4576-4579.
  20. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Crossref

Citation: Grogan W. Dennis (2022) Strength and Recondition of DNA in Pyrolobus fumarii Archaea. Mol Enzy Drug Targ Vol.08 No. Issue 04:106