Biology:TREX2

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Short description: Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens


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Three prime repair exonuclease 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the TREX2 gene.[1][2]

This gene encodes a protein with 3' exonuclease activity. Enzymes with this activity are involved in DNA replication, repair, and recombination. Similarity to an E. coli protein suggests that this enzyme may be a subunit of DNA polymerase III, which does not have intrinsic exonuclease activity.[2]

Newer research has determined that TREX2 is also involved in flap endonuclease activity, as detected in the context of inhibiting gene-editing nickases that generate an extension flap such as prime editors that do not usually create a double-stranded break. This function was first demonstrated in a thesis by Lung in 2021,[3] and replicated by Koeppel et al. in 2023.[4] Subsequently, TREX2 has become incorporated into fusion enzymes for genetic engineering by multiple research groups for the purposes of reducing off-target edits which include chromosomal translocations and mismatched insertions.[5][6]

Mutations in this gene may lead to Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome.

References

  1. "Identification and expression of the TREX1 and TREX2 cDNA sequences encoding mammalian 3'-->5' exonucleases". J Biol Chem 274 (28): 19655–60. Aug 1999. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.28.19655. PMID 10391904. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Entrez Gene: TREX2 three prime repair exonuclease 2". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=11219. 
  3. Lung, Genesis (Nov 2021). "Precise Correction of A1AT E342K by Modified NGA PAM Prime Editing and Determination of Prime Editing Inhibition by TREX2". https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37370046. 
  4. Koeppel, Jonas; Weller, Juliane; Peets, Elin Madli; Pallaseni, Ananth; Kuzmin, Ivan; Raudvere, Uku; Peterson, Hedi; Liberante, Fabio Giuseppe et al. (2023). "Prediction of prime editing insertion efficiencies using sequence features and DNA repair determinants". Nature Biotechnology 41 (10): 1444–1456. doi:10.1038/s41587-023-01678-y. PMID 36797492. 
  5. Yin, Jianhang; Lu, Rusen; Xin, Changchang; Wang, Yuhong; Ling, Xinyu; Li, Dong; Zhang, Weiwei; Liu, Mengzhu et al. (Mar 2022). "Cas9 exo-endonuclease eliminates chromosomal translocations during genome editing". Nature Communications 13 (1): 1204. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28900-w. PMID 35260581. Bibcode2022NatCo..13.1204Y. 
  6. Wang, Yue; Feng, Yi-Li; Liu, Qian; Liu, Si-Cheng; Huang, Zhi-Cheng (Dec 2023). "TREX2 enables efficient genome disruption mediated by paired CRISPR-Cas9 nickases that generate 3′-overhanging ends". Cell Molecular Therapy 34 (102072). https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/nucleic-acids/fulltext/S2162-2531(23)00290-1. 

Further reading

  • Overview of all the structural information available in the PDB for UniProt: Q9BQ50 (Human Three prime repair exonuclease 2) at the PDBe-KB.
  • Overview of all the structural information available in the PDB for UniProt: Q9R1A9 (Mouse Three prime repair exonuclease 2) at the PDBe-KB.