Sumoylation of thymine DNA glycosylase impairs productive binding to substrate sites in DNA.

The base excision repair enzyme thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) protects against mutations by removing thymine or uracil from guanine mispairs and functions in active DNA demethylation by excising 5-formylcytosine (fC) and 5-carboxylcytosine (caC). Post-translational modification of TDG by SUMO (small ubiquitin-like modifier) reduces its glycosylase activity but the mechanism remains unclear. We investigated this problem using biochemical and biophysical approaches and a TDG construct comprising residues 82-340 (of 410) that includes the SUMOylation site and the motif for non-covalent SUMO binding. Single turnover kinetics experiments were collected at multiple enzyme concentrations ([E]) and the hyperbolic dependence of activity (k

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