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Rampakakis E, Zannis-Hadjopoulos M. Transient dsDNA breaks during pre-replication complex assembly. Nucleic Acids Res 2009; 37:5714-24. [PMID: 19638425 PMCID: PMC2761281 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Initiation of DNA replication involves the ordered assembly of the multi-protein pre-replicative complex (pre-RC) during G1 phase. Previously, DNA topoisomerase II (topo II) was shown to associate with the DNA replication origin located in the lamin B2 gene locus in a cell-cycle-modulated manner. Here we report that activation of both the early-firing lamin B2 and the late-firing hOrs8 human replication origins involves DNA topo II-dependent, transient, site-specific dsDNA-break formation. Topo IIβ in complex with the DNA repair protein Ku associates in vivo and in vitro with the pre-RC region, introducing dsDNA breaks in a biphasic manner, during early and mid-G1 phase. Inhibition of topo II activity interferes with the pre-RC assembly resulting in prolonged G1 phase. The data mechanistically link DNA topo IIβ-dependent dsDNA breaks and the components of the DNA repair machinery with the initiation of DNA replication and suggest an important role for DNA topology in origin activation.
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- Emmanouil Rampakakis
- Goodman Cancer Center and Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A3
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Holt IJ. Mitochondrial DNA replication and repair: all a flap. Trends Biochem Sci 2009; 34:358-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2009.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2009] [Revised: 03/04/2009] [Accepted: 03/10/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The lamin B2 locus is the only mammalian origin whose replication initiation points (RIPs) have been mapped. Although this paper was published 8 years ago, no further mammalian RIP-mapping studies have been reported, largely due to technical difficulties of ligation-mediated (LM)-PCR used by the authors. Here, we report the development of a simple, one-way PCR-based protocol that allows one to accurately determine RIPs at mammalian origins. The procedure can be completed within 48 h from the time of cell lysis in the agarose gel. Nascent DNA is then isolated from the same gel after DNA is separated by alkaline gel electrophoresis. Subsequently, RIPs are determined by one-way PCR-based primer extension using labeled primers. Using this protocol, we have successfully mapped RIPs in the human DBF4 locus. As one-way PCR is routinely used by many scientists, this protocol will provide a powerful new tool for studying DNA replication in many organisms including mammalian cells.
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Mesner LD, Hamlin JL. Isolation of restriction fragments containing origins of replication from complex genomes. Methods Mol Biol 2009; 521:315-28. [PMID: 19563114 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-815-7_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The identification and isolation of origins of replication from mammalian genomes has been a demanding task owing to the great complexity of these genomes. However, two methods have been refined in recent years each of which allows significant enrichment of recently activated origins of replication from asynchronous cell cultures. In one of these, nascent strands are melted from the long template DNA, and the small, origin-centered strands are isolated on sucrose gradients. The second method involves the selective entrapment of bubble-containing fragments in gelling agarose and their subsequent recovery and isolation by molecular cloning. Libraries prepared by this method from Chinese hamster and human cells have been shown to be extremely pure, and provide a renewable resource of origins that can be used as probes on microarrays or sequenced by high-throughput techniques to localize them within the genomic source. The bubble-trapping method is described here for asynchronous mammalian cells that grow with reasonable doubling times and from which nuclear matrices can be reliably prepared. The method for nuclear matrix preparation and enrichment of replication intermediates is described in an accompanying chapter entitled, "Purification of Restriction Fragments Containing Replication Intermediates from Mammalian Cells for 2-D Gel Analysis").
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- Larry D Mesner
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Norseen J, Thomae A, Sridharan V, Aiyar A, Schepers A, Lieberman PM. RNA-dependent recruitment of the origin recognition complex. EMBO J 2008; 27:3024-35. [PMID: 18946490 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2008.221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2008] [Accepted: 09/23/2008] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The origin recognition complex (ORC) has an important function in determining the initiation sites of DNA replication. In higher eukaryotes, ORC lacks sequence-specific DNA binding, and the mechanisms of ORC recruitment and origin determination are poorly understood. ORC is recruited with high efficiency to the Epstein-Barr virus origin of plasmid replication (OriP) through a complex mechanism involving interactions with the virus-encoded EBNA1 protein. We present evidence that ORC recruitment to OriP and DNA replication function depends on RGG-like motifs, referred to as LR1 and LR2, in the EBNA1 amino-terminal domain. Moreover, we show that LR1 and LR2 recruitment of ORC is RNA dependent. HMGA1a, which can functionally substitute for LR1 and LR2 domain, can also recruit ORC in an RNA-dependent manner. EBNA1 and HMGA1a RGG motifs bound to structured G-rich RNA, as did ORC1 peptides, which interact with EBNA1. RNase A treatment of cellular chromatin released a fraction of the total ORC, suggesting that ORC association with chromatin, and possibly cellular origins, is stabilized by RNA. We propose that structural RNA molecules mediate ORC recruitment at some cellular and viral origins, similar to OriP.
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- Julie Norseen
- Program in Gene Expression and Regulation, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Hamlin JL, Mesner LD, Lar O, Torres R, Chodaparambil SV, Wang L. A revisionist replicon model for higher eukaryotic genomes. J Cell Biochem 2008; 105:321-9. [PMID: 18680119 PMCID: PMC2574905 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The replicon model devised to explain replication control in bacteria has served as the guiding paradigm in the search for origins of replication in the more complex genomes of eukaryotes. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, this model has proved to be extremely useful, leading to the identification of specific genetic elements (replicators) and the interacting initiator proteins that activate them. However, replication control in organisms ranging from Schizosaccharomyces pombe to mammals is far more fluid: only a small number of origins seem to represent classic replicators, while the majority correspond to zones of inefficient, closely spaced start sites none of which are indispensable for origin activity. In addition, it is apparent that the epigenetic state of a given sequence largely determines its ability to be used as a replication initiation site. These conclusions were arrived at over a period of three decades, and required the development of several novel replicon mapping techniques, as well as new ways of examining the chromatin architecture of any sequence of interest. Recently, methods have been elaborated for isolating all of the active origins in the genomes of higher eukaryotes en masse. Microarray analyses and more recent high-throughput sequencing technology will allow all the origins to be mapped onto the chromosomes of any organism whose genome has been sequenced. With the advent of whole-genome studies on gene expression and chromatin composition, the field is now positioned to define both the genetic and epigenetic rules that govern origin activity.
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- J L Hamlin
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0733, USA.
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Asymmetric bidirectional replication at the human DBF4 origin. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2008; 15:722-9. [PMID: 18536724 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2008] [Accepted: 05/06/2008] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Faithful replication of the entire genome once per cell cycle is essential for maintaining genetic integrity, and the origin of DNA replication is key in this regulation. Unlike that in unicellular organisms, the replication initiation mechanism in mammalian cells is not well understood. We have identified a strong origin of replication at the DBF4 promoter locus, which contains two initiation zones, two origin recognition complex (ORC) binding sites and two DNase I-hypersensitive regions within approximately 1.5 kb. Notably, similar to the Escherichia coli oriC, replication at the DBF4 locus starts from initiation zone I, which contains an ORC-binding site, and progresses in the direction of transcription toward initiation zone II, located approximately 0.4 kb downstream. Replication on the opposite strand from zone II, which contains another ORC-binding site, may be activated or facilitated by replication from zone I. We term this new mammalian replication mode 'asymmetric bidirectional replication'.
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Kruisselbrink E, Guryev V, Brouwer K, Pontier DB, Cuppen E, Tijsterman M. Mutagenic Capacity of Endogenous G4 DNA Underlies Genome Instability in FANCJ-Defective C. elegans. Curr Biol 2008; 18:900-5. [PMID: 18538569 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2008] [Revised: 04/17/2008] [Accepted: 05/05/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Evelien Kruisselbrink
- Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences & University Medical Centre Utrecht, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Gómez M, Antequera F. Overreplication of short DNA regions during S phase in human cells. Genes Dev 2008; 22:375-85. [PMID: 18245449 DOI: 10.1101/gad.445608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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DNA replication origins (ORI) are regulatory regions from which the genome is replicated once every cell cycle. A widely used method for their identification in mammalian chromosomes relies on quantitative PCR of DNA nascent strands across candidate regions. We developed a new high-resolution PCR strategy to localize ORIs directly on total unfractionated human DNA. The increase in sensitivity provided by this approach has revealed that a short region of approximately 200-base-pair overlapping well-characterized replication origins undergoes several rounds of replication, coinciding with their specific time of activation during S phase. This process generates a population of discrete dsDNA fragments detectable as free molecules in preparations of total DNA in normally proliferating cells. Overreplicated regions have precise boundaries at the edge of the nucleosome-free gap that encompasses the transcription initiation sites of CpG island promoters. By itself, active transcription does not induce overreplication but does stimulate it at ORIs associated with promoters. The coincidence in time and space between the overproduction of short DNA fragments and ORI activity predicts the precise localization of thousands of ORIs in the human genome and uncovers a previously unnoticed step in the initiation of DNA replication.
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- María Gómez
- Instituto de Microbiología Bioquímica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Universidad de Salamanca, Edificio Departamental, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007-Salamanca, Spain.
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Goren A, Tabib A, Hecht M, Cedar H. DNA replication timing of the human beta-globin domain is controlled by histone modification at the origin. Genes Dev 2008; 22:1319-24. [PMID: 18443145 DOI: 10.1101/gad.468308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The human beta-globin genes constitute a large chromosomal domain that is developmentally regulated. In nonerythroid cells, these genes replicate late in S phase, while in erythroid cells, replication is early. The replication origin is packaged with acetylated histones in erythroid cells, yet is associated with deacetylated histones in nonerythroid cells. Recruitment of histone acetylases to this origin brings about a transcription-independent shift to early replication in lymphocytes. In contrast, tethering of a histone deacetylase in erythroblasts causes a shift to late replication. These results suggest that histone modification at the origin serves as a binary switch for controlling replication timing.
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- Alon Goren
- Department of Cellular Biochemistry and Human Genetics, Hebrew University Medical School, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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Rampakakis E, Di Paola D, Zannis-Hadjopoulos M. Ku is involved in cell growth, DNA replication and G1-S transition. J Cell Sci 2008; 121:590-600. [PMID: 18252799 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.021352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The Ku protein (Ku70-Ku80) is involved in various genome-maintenance processes such as DNA replication and repair, telomere maintenance, and chromosomal stability. We previously found that Ku80 is implicated in the loading of members of the pre-replicative complex (pre-RC) onto replication origins. Here, we report that acute reduction of Ku80 to 10% of its normal levels leads to impaired DNA replication and activation of a replication stress checkpoint. In the absence of Ku80, decreased levels of the initiator proteins Orc1 and Orc6 as well as reduced chromatin binding of Orc1, Orc4 and Cdc45 were observed, leading to decreased origin firing, whereas Orc2 and Orc3 were unaffected. Prolonged perturbation of DNA replication caused the block of cell-cycle progression in late G1 phase with low Cdk2 activity due to increased p21 expression and decreased Cdc25A and Cdk2 levels. The data suggest the interplay between the DNA-replication and cell-cycle machineries and shed light on a new role of Ku in G1-S transition.
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- Emmanouil Rampakakis
- McGill Cancer Centre and Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada
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Gundelach H, Braas D, Klempnauer KH. The promoter regions of the Myb-regulated Adora2B and Mcm4 genes co-localize with origins of DNA replication. BMC Mol Biol 2007; 8:75. [PMID: 17822556 PMCID: PMC2018721 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-8-75] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2007] [Accepted: 09/06/2007] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Background The retroviral oncogene v-myb encodes a transcription factor (v-Myb) which is responsible for the transformation of myelomonocytic cells by avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV). v-Myb is thought to exert its biological effects by deregulating the expression of specific target genes. We have recently demonstrated that the chicken Gas41 gene, whose promoter co-localizes with an origin of DNA replication, is a bona fide Myb target gene. Because of this finding we have asked whether other Myb-regulated genes are also associated with DNA replication origins. Results We show that the promoter region of the chicken adenosine receptor 2B gene (Adora2B), a known Myb-target gene, acts as a DNA replication origin. Furthermore, we have examined known replication origins for the presence of Myb binding sites. We found that the intergenic region between the genes for the minichromosome maintenance 4 protein (Mcm4) and the catalytic subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase (Prkdc), whose human counterpart has been identified as a replication origin, contains a number of Myb binding sites. Our data show that this region also acts as an origin of replication in chicken cells. Interestingly, we found that the chicken Mcm4 gene is also Myb-regulated. Conclusion Our work identifies the chicken Mcm4 gene as a novel Myb target gene and presents evidence for the co-localization of two novel origins of DNA replication with Myb-regulated genes. Our work raises the possibility that a fraction of Myb target gene promoters is associated with DNA replication origins.
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- Holger Gundelach
- Institute for Biochemistry, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 2, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 2, D-48149 Münster, Germany
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MacDonald Research Laboratories, UCLA, 675 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA-90095-1662, USA
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 2, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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Lucas I, Palakodeti A, Jiang Y, Young DJ, Jiang N, Fernald AA, Le Beau MM. High-throughput mapping of origins of replication in human cells. EMBO Rep 2007; 8:770-7. [PMID: 17668008 PMCID: PMC1978075 DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7401026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2006] [Revised: 05/18/2007] [Accepted: 06/04/2007] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Mapping origins of replication has been challenging in higher eukaryotes. We have developed a rapid, genome-wide method to map origins of replication in asynchronous human cells by combining the nascent strand abundance assay with a highly tiled microarray platform, and we validated the technique by two independent assays. We applied this method to analyse the enrichment of nascent DNA in three 50-kb regions containing known origins of replication in the MYC, lamin B2 (LMNB2) and haemoglobin beta (HBB) genes, a 200-kb region containing the rare fragile site, FRAXA, and a 1,075-kb region on chromosome 22; we detected most of the known origins and also 28 new origins. Surprisingly, the 28 new origins were small in size and located predominantly within genes. Our study also showed a strong correlation between origin replication timing and chromatin acetylation.
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- Isabelle Lucas
- Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC2115, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC2115, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC2115, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC2115, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- NimbleGen Systems Inc, 1 Science Court, Madison, Wisconsin 53711, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC2115, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC2115, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
- Tel: +1 773 702 0795; Fax: +1 773 702 9311; E-mail:
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Dominguez-Sola D, Ying CY, Grandori C, Ruggiero L, Chen B, Li M, Galloway DA, Gu W, Gautier J, Dalla-Favera R. Non-transcriptional control of DNA replication by c-Myc. Nature 2007; 448:445-51. [PMID: 17597761 DOI: 10.1038/nature05953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 492] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2006] [Accepted: 05/18/2007] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The c-Myc proto-oncogene encodes a transcription factor that is essential for cell growth and proliferation and is broadly implicated in tumorigenesis. However, the biological functions required by c-Myc to induce oncogenesis remain elusive. Here we show that c-Myc has a direct role in the control of DNA replication. c-Myc interacts with the pre-replicative complex and localizes to early sites of DNA synthesis. Depletion of c-Myc from mammalian (human and mouse) cells as well as from Xenopus cell-free extracts, which are devoid of RNA transcription, demonstrates a non-transcriptional role for c-Myc in the initiation of DNA replication. Overexpression of c-Myc causes increased replication origin activity with subsequent DNA damage and checkpoint activation. These findings identify a critical function of c-Myc in DNA replication and suggest a novel mechanism for its normal and oncogenic functions.
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- David Dominguez-Sola
- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Department of Genetics and Development and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Huang B, Schiefer J, Sass C, Landwehrmeyer GB, Kosinski CM, Kochanek S. High-Capacity Adenoviral Vector-Mediated Reduction of Huntingtin Aggregate Load In Vitro and In Vivo. Hum Gene Ther 2007; 18:303-11. [PMID: 17472569 DOI: 10.1089/hum.2006.160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by the expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat in exon 1 of the huntingtin (htt) gene. Emergence and progression of HD depend on continuous expression of mutant Huntingtin protein (Htt). Therefore, blocking expression of mutant Htt might be a promising therapeutic strategy. We generated a high-capacity adenoviral (HC-Ad) vector expressing a short hairpin RNA (shRNA) targeted to exon 1 of the htt gene. In vitro, this vector efficiently inhibited Htt expression in neuronal and nonneuronal cell lines. In addition, the number of Htt-immunoreactive (IR) aggregates, a hallmark of HD pathology, was significantly reduced after gene transfer with this vector. Importantly, the attenuation of aggregate formation by shRNA was observed in vivo after stereotaxic injection into the striatum of mouse models of HD. The vector was tested in two models: the R6/2 transgenic mouse model and a mouse model based on the local injection of an adenoviral vector expressing a truncated version of mutant Htt. In both models an efficient reduction in mutant Htt aggregate load measured by decreased Htt-IR aggregate formation was observed. Our results support the further development of shRNA for HD therapy.
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- Bin Huang
- Division of Gene Therapy, University of Ulm, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
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Abdurashidova G, Radulescu S, Sandoval O, Zahariev S, Danailov MB, Demidovich A, Santamaria L, Biamonti G, Riva S, Falaschi A. Functional interactions of DNA topoisomerases with a human replication origin. EMBO J 2007; 26:998-1009. [PMID: 17290216 PMCID: PMC1852844 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2006] [Accepted: 01/04/2007] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The human DNA replication origin, located in the lamin B2 gene, interacts with the DNA topoisomerases I and II in a cell cycle-modulated manner. The topoisomerases interact in vivo and in vitro with precise bonds ahead of the start sites of bidirectional replication, within the pre-replicative complex region; topoisomerase I is bound in M, early G1 and G1/S border and topoisomerase II in M and the middle of G1. The Orc2 protein competes for the same sites of the origin bound by either topoisomerase in different moments of the cell cycle; furthermore, it interacts on the DNA with topoisomerase II during the assembly of the pre-replicative complex and with DNA-bound topoisomerase I at the G1/S border. Inhibition of topoisomerase I activity abolishes origin firing. Thus, the two topoisomerases are closely associated with the replicative complexes, and DNA topology plays an essential functional role in origin activation.
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- Gulnara Abdurashidova
- Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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- Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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- Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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- Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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- Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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- Molecular Biology Section, Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, CNR, Pavia, Italy
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- Molecular Biology Section, Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, CNR, Pavia, Italy
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- Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
- Molecular Biology Laboratory, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
- Laboratory of Gene and Molecular Therapy, Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica, CNR, Pisa, Italy
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Callejo M, Sibani S, Di Paola D, Price GG, Zannis-Hadjopoulos M. Identification and functional analysis of a human homologue of the monkey replication origin ors8. J Cell Biochem 2007; 99:1606-15. [PMID: 16823771 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.20868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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We previously isolated from African green monkey (CV-1) cells a replication origin, ors8, that is active at the onset of S-phase. Here, its homologous sequence (hors8, accession number: DQ230978) was amplified from human cells, using the monkey-ors8-specific primers. Sequence alignment between the monkey and the human fragment revealed a 92% identity. Nascent DNA abundance analysis, involving quantification by real-time PCR, indicated that hors8 is an active replication origin, as the abundance of nascent DNA from a genomic region containing it was 97-fold higher relative to a non-origin region in the same locus. Furthermore, the data showed that the hors8 fragment is capable of supporting the episomal replication of its plasmid, when cloned into pBlueScript (pBS), as assayed by the DpnI resistance assay after transfection of HeLa cells. A quantitative chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay, using antibodies against Ku, Orc2, and Cdc6, showed that these DNA replication initiator proteins were associated in vivo with the human ors8 (hors8). Finally, nascent DNA abundance experiments from human cells synchronized at different phases of the cell cycle revealed that hors8 is a late-firing origin of DNA replication, having the highest activity 8 h after release from late G(1).
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- Mario Callejo
- McGill Cancer Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada
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Gray SJ, Gerhardt J, Doerfler W, Small LE, Fanning E. An origin of DNA replication in the promoter region of the human fragile X mental retardation (FMR1) gene. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 27:426-37. [PMID: 17101793 PMCID: PMC1800797 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01382-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental retardation in males, arises when the normally stable 5 to 50 CGG repeats in the 5' untranslated region of the fragile X mental retardation protein 1 (FMR1) gene expand to over 200, leading to DNA methylation and silencing of the FMR1 promoter. Although the events that trigger local CGG expansion remain unknown, the stability of trinucleotide repeat tracts is affected by their position relative to an origin of DNA replication in model systems. Origins of DNA replication in the FMR1 locus have not yet been described. Here, we report an origin of replication adjacent to the FMR1 promoter and CGG repeats that was identified by scanning a 35-kb region. Prereplication proteins Orc3p and Mcm4p bind to chromatin in the FMR1 initiation region in vivo. The position of the FMR1 origin relative to the CGG repeats is consistent with a role in repeat maintenance. The FMR1 origin is active in transformed cell lines, fibroblasts from healthy individuals, fibroblasts from patients with fragile X syndrome, and fetal cells as early as 8 weeks old. The potential role of the FMR1 origin in CGG tract instability is discussed.
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- Steven J Gray
- Department of Biological Sciences and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, , Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235-1634, USA
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Tan BCM, Chien CT, Hirose S, Lee SC. Functional cooperation between FACT and MCM helicase facilitates initiation of chromatin DNA replication. EMBO J 2006; 25:3975-85. [PMID: 16902406 PMCID: PMC1560368 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2006] [Accepted: 07/18/2006] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Chromatin is suppressive in nature to cellular enzymes that metabolize DNA, mainly due to the inherent inaccessibility of the DNA template. Despite extensive understanding of the involvement of chromatin-modifying factors in transcription, roles of related activities in DNA replication remain largely elusive. Here, we show that the heterodimeric transcriptional elongation factor FACT (facilitates chromatin transcription) is functionally linked to DNA synthesis. Its involvement in DNA replication is partly mediated by the stable association with the replicative helicase complex, MCM, and further by the coexistence with MCM on replication origin. Furthermore, relying on its nucleosome-reorganizing activity, FACT can facilitate chromatin unwinding by the MCM complex, which is otherwise inert on the nucleosomal template. As a consequence, the physical and functional interaction between FACT and MCM is an important determinant in the proper initiation of DNA replication and S phase in vivo. Together, our findings identify FACT as an integral and conserved component of the endogenous replication machinery, and support a model in which the concerted action of helicase and chromatin-modifying activities promotes chromosome replication.
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- Department of Developmental Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuokaken, Japan
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Taiwan University, 7 Chung Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 2 2356 2982; Fax: +886 2 2395 7801; E-mail:
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Holmquist GP, Ashley T. Chromosome organization and chromatin modification: influence on genome function and evolution. Cytogenet Genome Res 2006; 114:96-125. [PMID: 16825762 DOI: 10.1159/000093326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2005] [Accepted: 12/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Histone modifications of nucleosomes distinguish euchromatic from heterochromatic chromatin states, distinguish gene regulation in eukaryotes from that of prokaryotes, and appear to allow eukaryotes to focus recombination events on regions of highest gene concentrations. Four additional epigenetic mechanisms that regulate commitment of cell lineages to their differentiated states are involved in the inheritance of differentiated states, e.g., DNA methylation, RNA interference, gene repositioning between interphase compartments, and gene replication time. The number of additional mechanisms used increases with the taxon's somatic complexity. The ability of siRNA transcribed from one locus to target, in trans, RNAi-associated nucleation of heterochromatin in distal, but complementary, loci seems central to orchestration of chromatin states along chromosomes. Most genes are inactive when heterochromatic. However, genes within beta-heterochromatin actually require the heterochromatic state for their activity, a property that uniquely positions such genes as sources of siRNA to target heterochromatinization of both the source locus and distal loci. Vertebrate chromosomes are organized into permanent structures that, during S-phase, regulate simultaneous firing of replicon clusters. The late replicating clusters, seen as G-bands during metaphase and as meiotic chromomeres during meiosis, epitomize an ontological utilization of all five self-reinforcing epigenetic mechanisms to regulate the reversible chromatin state called facultative (conditional) heterochromatin. Alternating euchromatin/heterochromatin domains separated by band boundaries, and interphase repositioning of G-band genes during ontological commitment can impose constraints on both meiotic interactions and mammalian karyotype evolution.
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- G P Holmquist
- Biology Department, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA.
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Hayashida T, Oda M, Ohsawa K, Yamaguchi A, Hosozawa T, Locksley RM, Giacca M, Masai H, Miyatake S. Replication initiation from a novel origin identified in the Th2 cytokine cluster locus requires a distant conserved noncoding sequence. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 176:5446-54. [PMID: 16622012 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.9.5446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Lineage commitment of Th cells is associated with the establishment of specific transcriptional programs of cytokines. However, how Th cell differentiation affects the program of DNA replication has not been addressed. To gain insight into interplays between differentiation-induced transcription regulation and initiation of DNA replication, we took advantage of an in vitro differentiation system of naive T cells, in which one can manipulate their differentiation into Th1 or Th2 cells. We searched for replication origins in the murine IL-4/IL-13 locus and compared their profiles in the two Th cell lineages which were derived in vitro from the same precursor T cells. We identified a replication origin (ori(IL-13)) downstream from exon 4 of IL-13 and showed that this origin functions in both Th2 and Th1 cells. A distant regulatory element called CNS-1 (conserved noncoding sequence 1) in the IL-4/IL-13 intergenic region coincides with a Th2-specific DNase I-hypersensitive site and is required for efficient, coordinated expression of Th2 cytokines. Replication initiation from ori(IL-13) is significantly reduced in Th1 and Th2 cells derived from CNS-1-deficient mice. However, the replication timing of this locus is consistently early during S phase in both Th1 and Th2 cells under either the wild-type or CNS-1 deletion background. Thus, the conserved noncoding element in the intergenic region regulates replication initiation from a distant replication origin in a manner independent from its effect on lineage-specific transcription but not the replication timing of the segment surrounding this origin.
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- Toshiro Hayashida
- Cytokine Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 3-18-22 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8613 Tokyo, Japan
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Sasaki T, Ramanathan S, Okuno Y, Kumagai C, Shaikh SS, Gilbert DM. The Chinese hamster dihydrofolate reductase replication origin decision point follows activation of transcription and suppresses initiation of replication within transcription units. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 26:1051-62. [PMID: 16428457 PMCID: PMC1347040 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.26.3.1051-1062.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells select specific replication origin sites within the dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) locus at a discrete point during G1 phase, the origin decision point (ODP). Origin selection is sensitive to transcription but not protein synthesis inhibitors, implicating a pretranslational role for transcription in origin specification. We have constructed a DNA array covering 121 kb surrounding the DHFR locus, to comprehensively investigate replication initiation and transcription in this region. When nuclei isolated within the first 3 h of G1 phase were stimulated to initiate replication in Xenopus egg extracts, replication initiated without any detectable preference for specific sites. At the ODP, initiation became suppressed from within the Msh3, DHFR, and 2BE2121 transcription units. Active transcription was mostly confined to these transcription units, and inhibition of transcription by alpha-amanitin resulted in the initiation of replication within transcription units, indicating that transcription is necessary to limit initiation events to the intergenic region. However, the resumption of DHFR transcription after mitosis took place prior to the ODP and so is not on its own sufficient to suppress initiation of replication. Together, these results demonstrate a remarkable flexibility in sequence selection for initiating replication and implicate transcription as one important component of origin specification at the ODP.
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- Takayo Sasaki
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
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Wang J, Lindner SE, Leight ER, Sugden B. Essential elements of a licensed, mammalian plasmid origin of DNA synthesis. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 26:1124-34. [PMID: 16428463 PMCID: PMC1347036 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.26.3.1124-1134.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We developed a mammalian plasmid replicon with a formerly uncharacterized origin of DNA synthesis, 8xRep*. 8xRep* functions efficiently to support once-per-cell-cycle synthesis of plasmid DNA which initiates within Rep*. By characterizing Rep*'s requirements for acting as an origin, we have uncovered several striking properties it shares with DS, the only other well-characterized, licensed, mammalian plasmid origin of DNA synthesis. Rep* contains a pair of previously unrecognized Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1)-binding sites that are both necessary and sufficient in cis for its origin activity. These sites have an essential 21-bp center-to-center spacing, are bent by EBNA1, and recruit the origin recognition complex. The properties shared between DS and Rep* define cis and trans characteristics of a mammalian, extrachromosomal replicon. The role of EBNA1 likely reflects its evolution from cellular factors involved in the assembly of the initiation machinery.
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- Jindong Wang
- McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin--Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Patel PK, Arcangioli B, Baker SP, Bensimon A, Rhind N. DNA replication origins fire stochastically in fission yeast. Mol Biol Cell 2005; 17:308-16. [PMID: 16251353 PMCID: PMC1345668 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e05-07-0657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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DNA replication initiates at discrete origins along eukaryotic chromosomes. However, in most organisms, origin firing is not efficient; a specific origin will fire in some but not all cell cycles. This observation raises the question of how individual origins are selected to fire and whether origin firing is globally coordinated to ensure an even distribution of replication initiation across the genome. We have addressed these questions by determining the location of firing origins on individual fission yeast DNA molecules using DNA combing. We show that the firing of replication origins is stochastic, leading to a random distribution of replication initiation. Furthermore, origin firing is independent between cell cycles; there is no epigenetic mechanism causing an origin that fires in one cell cycle to preferentially fire in the next. Thus, the fission yeast strategy for the initiation of replication is different from models of eukaryotic replication that propose coordinated origin firing.
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- Prasanta K Patel
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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Masai H, You Z, Arai KI. Control of DNA replication: regulation and activation of eukaryotic replicative helicase, MCM. IUBMB Life 2005; 57:323-35. [PMID: 16036617 DOI: 10.1080/15216540500092419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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DNA replication is a key event of cell proliferation and the final target of signal transduction induced by growth factor stimulation. It is also strictly regulated during the ongoing cell cycle so that it occurs only once during S phase and that all the genetic materials are faithfully duplicated. DNA replication may be arrested or temporally inhibited due to a varieties of internal and external causes. Cells have developed intricate mechanisms to cope with the arrested replication forks to minimize the adversary effect on the stable maintenance of genetic materials. Helicases play a central role in DNA replication. In eukaryotes, MCM (minichromosome maintenance) protein complex plays essential roles as a replicative helicase. MCM4-6-7 complex possesses intrinsic DNA helicase activity which translocates on single-stranded DNA form 3' to 5'. Mammalian MCM4-6-7 helicase and ATPase activities are specifically stimulated by the presence of thymine-rich single-stranded DNA sequences onto which it is loaded. The activation appears to depend on the thymine content of this single-strand, and sequences derived from human replication origins can serve as potent activators of the MCM helicase. MCM is a prime target of Cdc7 kinase, known to be essential for activation of replication origins. We will discuss how the MCM may be activated at the replication origins by template DNA, phosphorylation, and interaction with other replicative proteins, and will present a model of how activation of MCM helicase by specific sequences may contribute to selection of replication initiation sites in higher eukaryotes.
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- Hisao Masai
- Department of Cell Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan.
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Sibani S, Price GB, Zannis-Hadjopoulos M. Decreased origin usage and initiation of DNA replication in haploinsufficient HCT116 Ku80+/- cells. J Cell Sci 2005; 118:3247-61. [PMID: 16014376 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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One of the functions of the abundant heterodimeric nuclear protein, Ku (Ku70/Ku80), is its involvement in the initiation of DNA replication through its ability to bind to chromosomal replication origins in a sequence-specific and cell cycle dependent manner. Here, using HCT116 Ku80+/- cells, the effect of Ku80 deficiency on cell cycle progression and origin activation was examined. Western blot analyses revealed a 75% and 36% decrease in the nuclear expression of Ku80 and Ku70, respectively. This was concomitant with a 33% and 40% decrease in chromatin binding of both proteins, respectively. Cell cycle analysis of asynchronous and late G1 synchronized Ku80+/- cells revealed a prolonged G1 phase. Furthermore, these Ku-deficient cells had a 4.5-, 3.4- and 4.3-fold decrease in nascent strand DNA abundance at the lamin B2, beta-globin and c-myc replication origins, respectively. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assays showed that the association of Ku80 with the lamin B2, beta-globin and c-myc origins was decreased by 1.5-, 2.3- and 2.5-fold, respectively, whereas that of Ku70 was similarly decreased (by 2.1-, 1.5- and 1.7-fold, respectively) in Ku80+/- cells. The results indicate that a deficiency of Ku80 resulted in a prolonged G1 phase, as well as decreased Ku binding to and activation of origins of DNA replication.
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- Sahar Sibani
- McGill Cancer Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada
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Cleary JD, Pearson CE. Replication fork dynamics and dynamic mutations: the fork-shift model of repeat instability. Trends Genet 2005; 21:272-80. [PMID: 15851063 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Gene-specific repeat instability is responsible for >36 human diseases. Active instability varies in a tissue-, developmental stage- and locus-specific manner and occurs in both proliferative and non-proliferative cells. In proliferative cells, DNA replication can contribute to repeat instability either by switching the direction of replication, which changes the repeat sequence that serves as the lagging-strand template (origin switching), or by shifting the location of the origin of replication without altering the replication direction (origin shifting). We propose that changes in the dynamics of replication-fork progression, or architecture, will alter the location of the repeat within the single-stranded lagging-strand template, thereby influencing instability (fork shifting). The fork-shift model, which does not require origin relocation, is influenced by cis-elements and trans-factors associated with driving and maintaining replication forks. The fork-shift model can explain some of the complex behaviours of repeat instability because it is dynamic and responsive to variations in epigenomic and locus activity.
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- John D Cleary
- Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8
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Helicases play central roles in initiation and elongation of DNA replication. We previously reported that helicase and ATPase activities of the mammalian Mcm4/6/7 complex are activated specifically by thymine-rich single-stranded DNA. Here, we examined its substrate preference and helicase actions using various synthetic DNAs. On a bubble substrate, Mcm4/6/7 makes symmetric dual contacts with the 5′-proximal 25 nt single-stranded segments adjacent to the branch points, presumably generating double hexamers. Loss of thymine residues from one single-strand results in significant decrease of unwinding efficacy, suggesting that concurrent bidirectional unwinding by a single double hexameric Mcm4/6/7 may play a role in efficient unwinding of the bubble. Mcm4/6/7 binds and unwinds various fork and extension structures carrying a single-stranded 3′-tail DNA. The extent of helicase activation depends on the sequence context of the 3′-tail, and the maximum level is achieved by DNA with 50% or more thymine content. Strand displacement by Mcm4/6/7 is inhibited, as the GC content of the duplex region increases. Replacement of cytosine–guanine pairs with cytosine–inosine pairs in the duplex restored unwinding, suggesting that mammalian Mcm4/6/7 helicase has difficulties in unwinding stably base-paired duplex. Taken together, these findings reveal important features on activation and substrate preference of the eukaryotic replicative helicase.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81 3 5685 2264; Fax: +81 3 5685 2932;
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Françon P, Lemaître JM, Dreyer C, Maiorano D, Cuvier O, Méchali M. A hypophosphorylated form of RPA34 is a specific component of pre-replication centers. J Cell Sci 2005; 117:4909-20. [PMID: 15456845 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Replication protein A (RPA) is a three subunit single-stranded DNA-binding protein required for DNA replication. In Xenopus, RPA assembles in nuclear foci that form before DNA synthesis, but their significance in the assembly of replication initiation complexes has been questioned. Here we show that the RPA34 regulatory subunit is dephosphorylated at the exit of mitosis and binds to chromatin at detergent-resistant replication foci that co-localize with the catalytic RPA70 subunit, at both the initiation and elongation stages of DNA replication. By contrast, the RPA34 phosphorylated form present at mitosis is not chromatin bound. We further demonstrate that RPA foci assemble on chromatin before initiation of DNA replication at sites functionally defined as initiation replication sites. Association of RPA with these sites does not require nuclear membrane formation, and is sensitive to the S-CDK inhibitor p21. We also provide evidence that RPA34 is present at initiation complexes formed in the absence of MCM3, but which contain MCM4. In such conditions, replication foci can form, and short RNA-primed nascent DNAs of discrete size are synthesized. These data show that in Xenopus, the hypophosphorylated form of RPA34 is a component of the pre-initiation complex.
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- Patricia Françon
- Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, Genome Dynamics and Development, 141, rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
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Jeon Y, Bekiranov S, Karnani N, Kapranov P, Ghosh S, MacAlpine D, Lee C, Hwang DS, Gingeras TR, Dutta A. Temporal profile of replication of human chromosomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:6419-24. [PMID: 15845769 PMCID: PMC1088349 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0405088102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Chromosomes in human cancer cells are expected to initiate replication from predictably localized origins, firing reproducibly at discrete times in S phase. Replication products obtained from HeLa cells at different stages of S phase were hybridized to cDNA and genome tiling oligonucleotide microarrays to determine the temporal profile of replication of human chromosomes on a genome-wide scale. About 1,000 genes and chromosomal segments were identified as sites containing efficient origins that fire reproducibly. Early replication was correlated with high gene density. An acute transition of gene density from early to late replicating areas suggests that discrete chromatin states dictate early versus late replication. Surprisingly, at least 60% of the interrogated chromosomal segments replicate equally in all quarters of S phase, suggesting that large stretches of chromosomes are replicated by inefficient, variably located and asynchronous origins and forks, producing a pan-S phase pattern of replication. Thus, at least for aneuploid cancer cells, a typical discrete time of replication in S phase is not seen for large segments of the chromosomes.
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- Yesu Jeon
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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Kusic J, Kojic S, Divac A, Stefanovic D. Noncanonical DNA elements in the lamin B2 origin of DNA replication. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:9848-54. [PMID: 15611042 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m408310200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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DNA replication origins of eukaryotes lack linear replicator elements but contain short (dT)(n) (dA)(n) sequences that could build mutually equivalent unorthodox structures. Here we report that the lamin B2 origin of DNA replication adopts an alternative form characterized by unpaired regions CTTTTTTTTTTCC/GGAAAAAAAAAAG (3900-3912) and CCTTTTTTTTC/GAAAAAAAAGG (4141-4151). Both unpaired regions are resistant to DNase and except in central parts of their homopyrimidine strands are sensitive to single strand-specific chemicals. Interactions that protect central pyrimidines probably stabilize the bubble-like areas. Because DNA fragments containing either one or both bubbles migrate in TBM (89 mm Tris base, 89 mm boric acid, and 2 mm MgCl(2)) PAGE even faster than expected from their linear size, interacting regions are expected to belong to the same molecule. In an origin fragment containing a single bubble, free homopyrimidine strand can only interact with Hoogsteen hydrogen bonding surfaces from a complementary double stranded sequence. Indeed, this origin fragment reacts with triplex preferring antibody. In competition binding experiments control double stranded DNA or single stranded (dT)(40) do not affect origin-antibody interaction, whereas TAT and GGC triplexes exert competitive effect. Because the chosen fragment does not contain potential GGC forming sequences, these experiments confirm that the lamin B2 origin adopts a structure partly composed of intramolecular TAT triads.
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- Jelena Kusic
- Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, 11010 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
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MacAlpine DM, Rodríguez HK, Bell SP. Coordination of replication and transcription along a Drosophila chromosome. Genes Dev 2005; 18:3094-105. [PMID: 15601823 PMCID: PMC535919 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1246404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 234] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The mechanisms by which metazoan origins of DNA replication are defined, regulated, and influenced by chromosomal events remain poorly understood. To gain insights into these mechanisms, we developed a systematic approach using a Drosophila high-resolution genomic microarray to determine replication timing, identify replication origins, and map protein-binding sites along a chromosome arm. We identify a defined temporal pattern of replication that correlates with the density of active transcription. These data indicate that the influence of transcription status on replication timing is exerted over large domains (>100 kb) rather than at the level of individual genes. We identify 62 early activating replication origins across the chromosome by mapping sites of nucleotide incorporation during hydroxyurea arrest. Using genome-wide location analysis, we demonstrate that the origin recognition complex (ORC) is localized to specific chromosomal sites, many of which coincide with early activating origins. The molecular attributes of ORC-binding sites include increased AT-content and association with a subset of RNA Pol II-binding sites. Based on these findings, we suggest that the distribution of transcription along the chromosome acts locally to influence origin selection and globally to regulate origin activation.
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- David M MacAlpine
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02319, USA
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Cohen SM, Hatada S, Brylawski BP, Smithies O, Kaufman DG, Cordeiro-Stone M. Complementation of replication origin function in mouse embryonic stem cells by human DNA sequences. Genomics 2005; 84:475-84. [PMID: 15498455 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2004.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2004] [Accepted: 04/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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A functional origin of replication was mapped to the transcriptional promoter and exon 1 of the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) gene in the mouse and human genomes. This origin was lost in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells with a spontaneous deletion (approximately 36 kb) at the 5' end of the HPRT locus. Restoration of HPRT activity by homologous recombination with human/mouse chimeric sequences reconstituted replication origin activity in two independent ES cell lines. Quantitative PCR analyses of abundance of genetic markers in size-fractionated nascent DNA indicated that initiation of DNA replication coincided with the site of insertion in the mouse genome of the 335 bp of human DNA containing the HPRT exon 1 and a truncated promoter. The genetic information contained in the human sequence and surrounding mouse DNA was analyzed for cis-acting elements that might contribute to selection and functional activation of a mammalian origin of DNA replication.
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- Stephanie M Cohen
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7525, USA.
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Kemp MG, Ghosh M, Liu G, Leffak M. The histone deacetylase inhibitor trichostatin A alters the pattern of DNA replication origin activity in human cells. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:325-36. [PMID: 15653633 PMCID: PMC546162 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic chromatin structure limits the initiation of DNA replication spatially to chromosomal origin zones and temporally to the ordered firing of origins during S phase. Here, we show that the level of histone H4 acetylation correlates with the frequency of replication initiation as measured by the abundance of short nascent DNA strands within the human c-myc and lamin B2 origins, but less well with the frequency of initiation across the β-globin locus. Treatment of HeLa cells with trichostatin A (TSA) reversibly increased the acetylation level of histone H4 globally and at these initiation sites. At all three origins, TSA treatment transiently promoted a more dispersive pattern of initiations, decreasing the abundance of nascent DNA at previously preferred initiation sites while increasing the nascent strand abundance at lower frequency genomic initiation sites. When cells arrested in late G1 were released into TSA, they completed S phase more rapidly than untreated cells, possibly due to the earlier initiation from late-firing origins, as exemplified by the β-globin origin. Thus, TSA may modulate replication origin activity through its effects on chromatin structure, by changing the selection of initiation sites, and by advancing the time at which DNA synthesis can begin at some initiation sites.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 937 775 3125; Fax: +1 937 775 3730;
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Reyes A, Yang MY, Bowmaker M, Holt IJ. Bidirectional replication initiates at sites throughout the mitochondrial genome of birds. J Biol Chem 2004; 280:3242-50. [PMID: 15557283 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m411916200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Analysis of mitochondrial replication intermediates of Gallus gallus on fork-direction gels indicates that replication occurs in both directions around circular mitochondrial DNA. This finding was corroborated by a study of chick mitochondrial DNA on standard neutral two-dimensional agarose gels, which yielded archetypal initiation arcs in fragments covering the entire genome. There was, however, considerable variation in initiation arc intensity. The majority of initiation events map to regions flanking the major non-coding region, in particular the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 6 (ND6) gene. Initiation point mapping of the ND6 gene identified prominent free 5' ends of DNA, which are candidate start sites for DNA synthesis. Therefore we propose that the initiation zone of G. gallus mitochondrial DNA encompasses most, if not all, of the genome, with preferred initiation sites in regions flanking the major non-coding region. Comparison with mammals suggests a common mechanism of initiation of mitochondrial DNA replication in higher vertebrates.
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- Aurelio Reyes
- Medical Research Council Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road Cambridge, CB2 2XY, United Kingdom
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After 40 years of searching for the eukaryotic replicator sequence, it is time to abandon the concept of 'the' replicator as a single genetic entity. Here I propose a 'relaxed replicon model' in which a positive initiator-replicator interaction is facilitated by a combination of several complex features of chromatin. An important question for the future is whether the positions of replication origins are simply a passive result of local chromatin structure or are actively localized to coordinate replication with other chromosomal activities.
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- David M Gilbert
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NewYork 13210, USA.
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Identification of BRCA1-IRIS, a BRCA1 locus product. Nat Cell Biol 2004; 6:954-67. [PMID: 15448696 DOI: 10.1038/ncb1171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2004] [Accepted: 08/25/2004] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women, and mutations in the BRCA genes produce increased susceptibility to these malignancies in certain families. Here we identify BRCA1-IRIS as a 1,399-amino-acid BRCA1 gene product encoded by an uninterrupted open reading frame that extends from codon 1 of the known BRCA1 open reading frame to a termination point 34 triplets into intron 11. Unlike full-length BRCA1 (p220), BRCA1-IRIS is exclusively chromatin-associated, fails to interact with BARD1 in vivo or in vitro and exhibits unique nuclear immunostaining. Unlike BRCA1FL (or p220), BRCA1-IRIS also co-immunoprecipitated with DNA-replication-licensing proteins and with known replication initiation sites. Suppression of BRCA1-IRIS expression hindered the normal departure of geminin from pre-replication complexes, and depressed the rate of cellular DNA replication and possibly initiation-related synthesis. In contrast, BRCA1-IRIS overexpression stimulated DNA replication. These data imply that endogenous BRCA1-IRIS positively influences the DNA replication initiation machinery.
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Melixetian M, Ballabeni A, Masiero L, Gasparini P, Zamponi R, Bartek J, Lukas J, Helin K. Loss of Geminin induces rereplication in the presence of functional p53. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 165:473-82. [PMID: 15159417 PMCID: PMC2172361 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200403106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Strict regulation of DNA replication is essential to ensure proper duplication and segregation of chromosomes during the cell cycle, as its deregulation can lead to genomic instability and cancer. Thus, eukaryotic organisms have evolved multiple mechanisms to restrict DNA replication to once per cell cycle. Here, we show that inactivation of Geminin, an inhibitor of origin licensing, leads to rereplication in human normal and tumor cells within the same cell cycle. We found a CHK1-dependent checkpoint to be activated in rereplicating cells accompanied by formation of gammaH2AX and RAD51 nuclear foci. Abrogation of the checkpoint leads to abortive mitosis and death of rereplicated cells. In addition, we demonstrate that the induction of rereplication is dependent on the replication initiation factors CDT1 and CDC6, and independent of the functional status of p53. These data show that Geminin is required for maintaining genomic stability in human cells.
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- Marina Melixetian
- Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy
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Li CJ, Vassilev A, DePamphilis ML. Role for Cdk1 (Cdc2)/cyclin A in preventing the mammalian origin recognition complex's largest subunit (Orc1) from binding to chromatin during mitosis. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:5875-86. [PMID: 15199143 PMCID: PMC480893 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.13.5875-5886.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The eukaryotic origin recognition complex (ORC) selects the genomic sites where prereplication complexes are assembled and DNA replication begins. In proliferating mammalian cells, ORC activity appears to be regulated by reducing the affinity of the Orc1 subunit for chromatin during S phase and then preventing reformation of a stable ORC-chromatin complex until mitosis is completed and a nuclear membrane is assembled. Here we show that part of the mechanism by which this is accomplished is the selective association of Orc1 with Cdk1 (Cdc2)/cyclin A during the G(2)/M phase of cell division. This association accounted for the appearance in M-phase cells of hyperphosphorylated Orc1 that was subsequently dephosphorylated during the M-to-G(1) transition. Moreover, inhibition of Cdk activity in metaphase cells resulted in rapid binding of Orc1 to chromatin. However, chromatin binding was not mediated through increased affinity of Orc1 for Orc2, suggesting that additional events are involved in the assembly of functional ORC-chromatin sites. These results reveal that the same cyclin-dependent protein kinase that initiates mitosis in mammalian cells also concomitantly inhibits assembly of functional ORC-chromatin sites.
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- Cong-jun Li
- Growth Biology Laboratory, Animal and Natural Resources Institute, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA
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Danis E, Brodolin K, Menut S, Maiorano D, Girard-Reydet C, Méchali M. Specification of a DNA replication origin by a transcription complex. Nat Cell Biol 2004; 6:721-30. [PMID: 15247921 DOI: 10.1038/ncb1149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2004] [Accepted: 06/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In early Xenopus development, transcription is repressed and DNA replication initiates at non-specific sites. Here, we show that a site-specific DNA replication origin can be induced in this context by the assembly of a transcription domain. Deletion of the promoter element abolishes site-specific initiation, and its relocalization to an ectopic site induces a new origin of replication. This process does not require active transcription, and specification of the origin occurs mainly through a decrease in non-specific initiation at sites distant from the promoter. Finally, chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments suggest that site-specific acetylation of histones favours the selection of the active DNA replication origin. We propose that the specification of active DNA replication origins occurs by secondary epigenetic events and that the programming of chromatin for transcription during development contributes to this selection in higher eukaryotes.
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- Etienne Danis
- Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, Genome Dynamics and Development, 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Wu X, Avni D, Chiba T, Yan F, Zhao Q, Lin Y, Heng H, Livingston D. SV40 T antigen interacts with Nbs1 to disrupt DNA replication control. Genes Dev 2004; 18:1305-16. [PMID: 15175262 PMCID: PMC420356 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1182804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2003] [Accepted: 04/12/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS) is characterized by radiation hypersensitivity, chromosomal instability, and predisposition to cancer. Nbs1, the NBS protein, forms a tight complex with Mre11 and Rad50, and these interactions contribute to proper double-strand break repair. The simian virus 40 (SV40) oncoprotein, large T antigen (T), also interacts with Nbs1, and T-containing cells experience chromosomal hyperreplication in a manner dependent on T/Nbs1 complex formation. A substantial fraction of NBS-deficient fibroblasts reinitiate DNA replication in discrete regions, and wild-type Nbs1 corrects this defect. Similarly, synthesis of an N-terminal Nbs1 fragment induced DNA rereplication and tetraploidy, in NBS-deficient but not NBS-proficient cells. Moreover, SV40 origin-containing DNA hyperreplicated in T-containing NBS-deficient cells by comparison with T-containing, Nbs1-reconstituted derivatives. Thus, Nbs1 suppresses rereplication of cellular DNA and SV40 origin-containing replicons, and T targets Nbs1, thereby enhancing the yield of new SV40 genomes during viral DNA replication.
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- Xiaohua Wu
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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Altman AL, Fanning E. Defined sequence modules and an architectural element cooperate to promote initiation at an ectopic mammalian chromosomal replication origin. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:4138-50. [PMID: 15121836 PMCID: PMC400449 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.10.4138-4150.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2003] [Revised: 08/12/2003] [Accepted: 02/19/2004] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A small DNA fragment containing the high-frequency initiation region (IR) ori-beta from the hamster dihydrofolate reductase locus functions as an independent replicator in ectopic locations in both hamster and human cells. Conversely, a fragment of the human lamin B2 locus containing the previously mapped IR serves as an independent replicator at ectopic chromosomal sites in hamster cells. At least four defined sequence elements are specifically required for full activity of ectopic ori-beta in hamster cells. These include an AT-rich element, a 4-bp sequence located within the mapped IR, a region of intrinsically bent DNA located between these two elements, and a RIP60 protein binding site adjacent to the bent region. The ori-beta AT-rich element is critical for initiation activity in human, as well as hamster, cells and can be functionally substituted for by an AT-rich region from the human lamin B2 IR that differs in nucleotide sequence and length. Taken together, the results demonstrate that two mammalian replicators can be activated at ectopic sites in chromosomes of another mammal and lead us to speculate that they may share functionally related elements.
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- Amy L Altman
- Department of Biological Sciences and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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Biamonti G, Paixão S, Montecucco A, Peverali FA, Riva S, Falaschi A. Is DNA sequence sufficient to specify DNA replication origins in metazoan cells? Chromosome Res 2004; 11:403-12. [PMID: 12971717 DOI: 10.1023/a:1024910307162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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DNA replication occupies a central position in the cell cycle and, therefore, in the development and life of multicellular organisms. During the last 10 years, our comprehension of this important process has considerably improved. Although the mechanisms that coordinate DNA replication with the other moments of the cell cycle are not yet fully understood, it is known that they mainly operate through DNA replication origins and the protein complexes bound to them. In eukaryotes, the packaging status of chromatin seems to be part of the mechanism that controls whether or not and when during the S-phase a particular origin will be activated. Intriguingly, the protein complexes bound to DNA replication origins appear to be directly involved in controlling chromatin packaging. In this manner they can also affect gene expression. In this review we focus on DNA replication origins in metazoan cells and on the relationship between these elements and the structural and functional organization of the genome.
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- Giuseppe Biamonti
- Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Abbiategrasso 207, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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Paixão S, Colaluca IN, Cubells M, Peverali FA, Destro A, Giadrossi S, Giacca M, Falaschi A, Riva S, Biamonti G. Modular structure of the human lamin B2 replicator. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:2958-67. [PMID: 15024083 PMCID: PMC371099 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.7.2958-2967.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2003] [Revised: 09/07/2003] [Accepted: 12/22/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The cis-acting elements necessary for the activity of DNA replication origins in metazoan cells are still poorly understood. Here we report a thorough characterization of the DNA sequence requirements of the origin associated with the human lamin B2 gene. A 1.2-kb DNA segment, comprising the start site of DNA replication and located within a large protein-bound region, as well as a CpG island, displays origin activity when moved to different ectopic positions. Genomic footprinting analysis of both the endogenous and the ectopic origins indicates that the large protein complex is assembled in both cases around the replication start site. Replacement of this footprinted region with an unrelated sequence, maintaining the CpG island intact, abolishes origin activity and the interaction with hORC2, a subunit of the origin recognition complex. Conversely, the replacement of 17 bp within the protected region reduces the extension of the protection without affecting the interaction with hORC2. This substitution does not abolish the origin activity but makes it more sensitive to the integration site. Finally, the nearby CpG island positively affects the efficiency of initiation. This analysis reveals the modular structure of the lamin B2 origin and supports the idea that sequence elements close to the replication start site play an important role in origin activation.
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- Sónia Paixão
- Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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Lusic M, Marcello A, Cereseto A, Giacca M. Regulation of HIV-1 gene expression by histone acetylation and factor recruitment at the LTR promoter. EMBO J 2004; 22:6550-61. [PMID: 14657027 PMCID: PMC291826 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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In HIV-1 infected cells, the LTR promoter, once organized into chromatin, is transcriptionally inactive in the absence of stimulation. To examine the chromosomal events involved in transcriptional activation, we analyzed histone acetylation and factor recruitment at contiguous LTR regions by a quantitative chromatin immunoprecipitation assay. In chronically infected cells treated with a phorbol ester, we found that acetylation of both histones H3 and H4 occurs at discrete nucleosomal regions before the onset of viral mRNA transcription. Concomitantly, we observed the recruitment of known cellular acetyl-transferases to the promoter, including CBP, P/CAF and GCN5, as well as that of the p65 subunit of NF-kappa B. The specific contribution of the viral Tat transactivator was assayed in cells harboring the sole LTR. We again observed nucleosomal acetylation and the recruitment of specific co-factors to the viral LTR upon activation by either recombinant Tat or a phorbol ester. Strikingly, P/CAF was found associated with the promoter only in response to Tat. Taken together, these results contribute to the elucidation of the molecular events underlying HIV-1 transcriptional activation.
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- Marina Lusic
- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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Kreppel F, Kochanek S. Long-term transgene expression in proliferating cells mediated by episomally maintained high-capacity adenovirus vectors. J Virol 2004; 78:9-22. [PMID: 14671083 PMCID: PMC303378 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.1.9-22.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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High-capacity "gutless" adenovirus vectors (HC-AdV) mediate long-term transgene expression in resting cells in vitro and in vivo because of low toxicity and immunogenicity. However, in proliferating cells, expression is transient since HC-AdV genomes do not possess elements that allow for replication and segregation of the replicated genomes to daughter cells. We developed a binary HC-AdV system that, under certain conditions, allows for significantly prolonged episomal maintenance of HC-AdV genomes in proliferating tissue culture cells, resulting in sustained transgene expression. After transduction of target cells the linear HC-AdV genomes were circularized by the DNA recombinase FLPe, which was expressed from the second HC-AdV. The oriP/EBNA-1 replication system derived from Epstein-Barr virus, as well as the human replication origin from the lamin B2 locus, were used as cis elements to test for replication of the 28-kb circular vector genomes with or without selective pressure. Depending on the system, up to 98% of the circularized genomes were replicated and segregated to daughter cells, as demonstrated by Southern assays and as confirmed by monitoring EGFP transgene expression. Surprisingly, in the absence of FLPe recombinase, a small but significant number of HC-AdV genomes spontaneously circularized after transduction of target cells. These circles, found to contain end-to-end joined adenovirus termini, replicated with increased efficiency compared to vectors circularized by FLPe. After further improvements, this HC-AdV system might be suitable for gene therapy applications requiring long-term transgene expression.
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- Florian Kreppel
- Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, D-50931 Cologne, Germany
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Kaufmann G, Nethanel T. Did an early version of the eukaryal replisome enable the emergence of chromatin? PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2004; 77:173-209. [PMID: 15196893 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(04)77005-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Gabriel Kaufmann
- Biochemistry Department, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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Schaarschmidt D, Baltin J, Stehle IM, Lipps HJ, Knippers R. An episomal mammalian replicon: sequence-independent binding of the origin recognition complex. EMBO J 2003; 23:191-201. [PMID: 14685267 PMCID: PMC1271667 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2003] [Accepted: 11/17/2003] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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An extrachromosomally replicating plasmid was used to investigate the specificity by which the origin recognition complex (ORC) interacts with DNA sequences in mammalian cells in vivo. We first showed that the plasmid pEPI-1 replicates semiconservatively in a once-per-cell-cycle manner and is stably transmitted over many cell generations in culture without selection. Chromatin immunoprecipitations and quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed that, in G1-phase cells, Orc1 and Orc2, as well as Mcm3, another component of the prereplication complex, are bound to multiple sites on the plasmid. These binding sites are functional because they show the S-phase-dependent dissociation of Orc1 and Mcm3 known to be characteristic for prereplication complexes in mammalian cells. In addition, we identified replicative nascent strands and showed that they correspond to many plasmid DNA regions. This work has implications for current models of replication origins in mammalian systems. It indicates that specific DNA sequences are not required for the chromatin binding of ORC in vivo. The conclusion is that epigenetic mechanisms determine the sites where mammalian DNA replication is initiated.
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You Z, Ishimi Y, Mizuno T, Sugasawa K, Hanaoka F, Masai H. Thymine-rich single-stranded DNA activates Mcm4/6/7 helicase on Y-fork and bubble-like substrates. EMBO J 2003; 22:6148-60. [PMID: 14609960 PMCID: PMC275434 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2003] [Revised: 09/09/2003] [Accepted: 09/25/2003] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The presence of multiple clusters of runs of asymmetric adenine or thymine is a feature commonly found in eukaryotic replication origins. Here we report that the helicase and ATPase activities of the mammalian Mcm4/6/7 complex are activated specifically by thymine stretches. The Mcm helicase is specifically activated by a synthetic bubble structure which mimics an activated replication origin, as well as by a Y-fork structure, provided that a single-stranded DNA region of sufficient length is present in the unwound segment or 3' tail, respectively, and that it carries clusters of thymines. Sequences derived from the human lamin B2 origin can serve as a potent activator for the Mcm helicase, and substitution of its thymine clusters with guanine leads to loss of this activation. At the fork, Mcm displays marked processivity, expected for a replicative helicase. These findings lead us to propose that selective activation by stretches of thymine sequences of a fraction of Mcm helicases loaded onto chromatin may be the determinant for selection of initiation sites on mammalian genomes.
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- Zhiying You
- Department of Cell Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 18-22 Honkomagome 3-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan
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Avni D, Yang H, Martelli F, Hofmann F, ElShamy WM, Ganesan S, Scully R, Livingston DM. Active localization of the retinoblastoma protein in chromatin and its response to S phase DNA damage. Mol Cell 2003; 12:735-46. [PMID: 14527418 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00355-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The Rb protein suppresses development of an abnormal state of endoreduplication arising after S phase DNA damage. In diploid, S phase cells, the activity of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) licenses the stable association of un(der)phosphorylated Rb with chromatin. After damage, chromatin-associated pRb is attracted to certain chromosomal replication initiation sites in the order in which they normally fire. Like S phase DNA damage in Rb(-/-) cells, specific interruption of PP2A function in irradiated, S phase wt cells also elicited a state of endoreduplication. Thus, PP2A normally licenses the recruitment of Rb to chromatin sites in S phase from which, after DNA damage, it relocalizes to selected replication control sites and suppresses abnormal, postdamage rereplicative activity.
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- Dror Avni
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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