Crystal structure and mutational analysis of Mycobacterium smegmatis FenA highlight active site amino acids and three metal ions essential for flap endonuclease and 5' exonuclease activities.

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Mycobacterium smegmatis FenA is a nucleic acid phosphodiesterase with flap endonuclease and 5' exonuclease activities. The 1.8 Å crystal structure of FenA reported here highlights as its closest homologs bacterial FEN-family enzymes ExoIX, the Pol1 exonuclease domain and phage T5 Fen. Mycobacterial FenA assimilates three active site manganese ions (M1, M2, M3) that are coordinated, directly and via waters, to a...

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