After binding a mismatch, the MSH2:MSH3 (MutSbeta) heterodimer exchanges ADP for ATP, which changes the conformation of MSH2:MSH3 to a sliding clamp or molecular switch able to diffuse in one direction along duplex DNA (Gu et al. 1998, Zhang et al. 2005, and inferred from MSH2:MSH6).
Gao, Y, Zhang, Y, Li, GM, Yuan, F, Tian, K, Presnell, SR, Gu, L, Tomkinson, AE
Watanabe, H, Li, GM, McCulloch, S, Gu, L, Hong, Y
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