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Myka KK, Marians KJ. Two components of DNA replication-dependent LexA cleavage. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:10368-10379. [PMID: 32513870 PMCID: PMC7383369 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2020] [Revised: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Induction of the SOS response, a cellular system triggered by DNA damage in bacteria, depends on DNA replication for the generation of the SOS signal, ssDNA. RecA binds to ssDNA, forming filaments that stimulate proteolytic cleavage of the LexA transcriptional repressor, allowing expression of > 40 gene products involved in DNA repair and cell cycle regulation. Here, using a DNA replication system reconstituted in vitro in tandem with a LexA cleavage assay, we studied LexA cleavage during DNA replication of both undamaged and base-damaged templates. Only a ssDNA-RecA filament supported LexA cleavage. Surprisingly, replication of an undamaged template supported levels of LexA cleavage like that induced by a template carrying two site-specific cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers. We found that two processes generate ssDNA that could support LexA cleavage. 1) During unperturbed replication, single-stranded regions formed because of stochastic uncoupling of the leading-strand DNA polymerase from the replication fork DNA helicase, and 2) on the damaged template, nascent leading-strand gaps were generated by replisome lesion skipping. The two pathways differed in that RecF stimulated LexA cleavage during replication of the damaged template, but not normal replication. RecF appears to facilitate RecA filament formation on the leading-strand ssDNA gaps generated by replisome lesion skipping.
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- Kamila K Myka
- Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York USA
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Raychaudhury P, Marians KJ. The recombination mediator proteins RecFOR maintain RecA* levels for maximal DNA polymerase V Mut activity. J Biol Chem 2018; 294:852-860. [PMID: 30482842 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.005726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2018] [Revised: 11/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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DNA template damage can potentially block DNA replication. Cells have therefore developed different strategies to repair template lesions. Activation of the bacterial lesion bypass DNA polymerase V (Pol V) requires both the cleavage of the UmuD subunit to UmuD' and the acquisition of a monomer of activated RecA recombinase, forming Pol V Mut. Both of these events are mediated by the generation of RecA* via the formation of a RecA-ssDNA filament during the SOS response. Formation of RecA* is itself modulated by competition with the ssDNA-binding protein (SSB) for binding to ssDNA. Previous observations have demonstrated that RecA filament formation on SSB-coated DNA can be favored in the presence of the recombination mediator proteins RecF, RecO, and RecR. We show here using purified proteins that in the presence of SSB and RecA, a stable RecA-ssDNA filament is not formed, although sufficient RecA* is generated to support some activation of Pol V. The presence of RecFOR increased RecA* generation and allowed Pol V to synthesize longer DNA products and to elongate from an unpaired primer terminus opposite template damage, also without the generation of a stable RecA-ssDNA filament.
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- Paromita Raychaudhury
- From the Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- From the Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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Kim T, Chitteni-Pattu S, Cox BL, Wood EA, Sandler SJ, Cox MM. Directed Evolution of RecA Variants with Enhanced Capacity for Conjugational Recombination. PLoS Genet 2015; 11:e1005278. [PMID: 26047498 PMCID: PMC4457935 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The recombination activity of Escherichia coli (E. coli) RecA protein reflects an evolutionary balance between the positive and potentially deleterious effects of recombination. We have perturbed that balance, generating RecA variants exhibiting improved recombination functionality via random mutagenesis followed by directed evolution for enhanced function in conjugation. A recA gene segment encoding a 59 residue segment of the protein (Val79-Ala137), encompassing an extensive subunit-subunit interface region, was subjected to degenerate oligonucleotide-mediated mutagenesis. An iterative selection process generated at least 18 recA gene variants capable of producing a higher yield of transconjugants. Three of the variant proteins, RecA I102L, RecA V79L and RecA E86G/C90G were characterized based on their prominence. Relative to wild type RecA, the selected RecA variants exhibited faster rates of ATP hydrolysis, more rapid displacement of SSB, decreased inhibition by the RecX regulator protein, and in general displayed a greater persistence on DNA. The enhancement in conjugational function comes at the price of a measurable RecA-mediated cellular growth deficiency. Persistent DNA binding represents a barrier to other processes of DNA metabolism in vivo. The growth deficiency is alleviated by expression of the functionally robust RecX protein from Neisseria gonorrhoeae. RecA filaments can be a barrier to processes like replication and transcription. RecA regulation by RecX protein is important in maintaining an optimal balance between recombination and other aspects of DNA metabolism. The genetic recombination systems of bacteria have not evolved for optimal enzymatic function. As recombination and recombination systems can have deleterious effects, these systems have evolved sufficient function to repair a level of DNA double strand breaks typically encountered during replication and cell division. However, maintenance of genome stability requires a proper balance between all aspects of DNA metabolism. A substantial increase in recombinase function is possible, but it comes with a cellular cost. Here, we use a kind of directed evolution to generate variants of the Escherichia coli RecA protein with an enhanced capacity to promote conjugational recombination. The mutations all occur within a targeted 59 amino acid segment of the protein, encompassing a significant part of the subunit-subunit interface. The RecA variants exhibit a range of altered activities. In general, the mutations appear to increase RecA protein persistence as filaments formed on DNA creating barriers to DNA replication and/or transcription. The barriers can be eliminated via expression of more robust forms of a RecA regulator, the RecX protein. The results elucidate an evolutionary compromise between the beneficial and deleterious effects of recombination.
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- Taejin Kim
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Shinohara T, Ikawa S, Iwasaki W, Hiraki T, Hikima T, Mikawa T, Arai N, Kamiya N, Shibata T. Loop L1 governs the DNA-binding specificity and order for RecA-catalyzed reactions in homologous recombination and DNA repair. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:973-86. [PMID: 25561575 PMCID: PMC4333409 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2014] [Revised: 12/14/2014] [Accepted: 12/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In all organisms, RecA-family recombinases catalyze homologous joint formation in homologous genetic recombination, which is essential for genome stability and diversification. In homologous joint formation, ATP-bound RecA/Rad51-recombinases first bind single-stranded DNA at its primary site and then interact with double-stranded DNA at another site. The underlying reason and the regulatory mechanism for this conserved binding order remain unknown. A comparison of the loop L1 structures in a DNA-free RecA crystal that we originally determined and in the reported DNA-bound active RecA crystals suggested that the aspartate at position 161 in loop L1 in DNA-free RecA prevented double-stranded, but not single-stranded, DNA-binding to the primary site. This was confirmed by the effects of the Ala-replacement of Asp-161 (D161A), analyzed directly by gel-mobility shift assays and indirectly by DNA-dependent ATPase activity and SOS repressor cleavage. When RecA/Rad51-recombinases interact with double-stranded DNA before single-stranded DNA, homologous joint-formation is suppressed, likely by forming a dead-end product. We found that the D161A-replacement reduced this suppression, probably by allowing double-stranded DNA to bind preferentially and reversibly to the primary site. Thus, Asp-161 in the flexible loop L1 of wild-type RecA determines the preference for single-stranded DNA-binding to the primary site and regulates the DNA-binding order in RecA-catalyzed recombinase reactions.
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- Takeshi Shinohara
- Cellular & Molecular Biology Unit, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan Advanced Catalysis Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan Department of Supramolecular Biology, Graduate School of Nanobiosciences, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Cellular & Molecular Biology Unit, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan Advanced Catalysis Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Cellular & Molecular Biology Unit, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Advanced Photon Technology Division, Research Infrastructure Group, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Advanced Photon Technology Division, Research Infrastructure Group, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Cellular & Molecular Biology Unit, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Nihon University College of Bioresource Sciences, 1866 Kameino, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa 252-8510, Japan
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- Advanced Photon Technology Division, Research Infrastructure Group, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Cellular & Molecular Biology Unit, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan Advanced Catalysis Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan Department of Supramolecular Biology, Graduate School of Nanobiosciences, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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Nikel PI, Chavarría M, Martínez-García E, Taylor AC, de Lorenzo V. Accumulation of inorganic polyphosphate enables stress endurance and catalytic vigour in Pseudomonas putida KT2440. Microb Cell Fact 2013; 12:50. [PMID: 23687963 PMCID: PMC3673903 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2013] [Accepted: 05/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Accumulation of inorganic polyphosphate (polyP), a persistent trait throughout the whole Tree of Life, is claimed to play a fundamental role in enduring environmental insults in a large variety of microorganisms. The share of polyP in the tolerance of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440 to a suite of physicochemical stresses has been studied on the background of its capacity as a host of oxidative biotransformations. Results Cells lacking polyphosphate kinase (Ppk), which expectedly presented a low intracellular polyP level, were more sensitive to a number of harsh external conditions such as ultraviolet irradiation, addition of β-lactam antibiotics and heavy metals (Cd2+ and Cu2+). Other phenotypes related to a high-energy phosphate load (e.g., swimming) were substantially weakened as well. Furthermore, the ppk mutant was consistently less tolerant to solvents and its survival in stationary phase was significantly affected. In contrast, the major metabolic routes were not significantly influenced by the loss of Ppk as diagnosed from respiration patterns of the mutant in phenotypic microarrays. However, the catalytic vigour of the mutant decreased to about 50% of that in the wild-type strain as estimated from the specific growth rate of cells carrying the catabolic TOL plasmid pWW0 for m-xylene biodegradation. The catalytic phenotype of the mutant was restored by over-expressing ppk in trans. Some of these deficits could be explained by the effect of the ppk mutation on the expression profile of the rpoS gene, the stationary phase sigma factor, which was revealed by the analysis of a PrpoS → rpoS‘-’lacZ translational fusion. Still, every stress-related effect of lacking Ppk in P. putida was relatively moderate as compared to some of the conspicuous phenotypes reported for other bacteria. Conclusions While polyP can be involved in a myriad of cellular functions, the polymer seems to play a relatively secondary role in the genetic and biochemical networks that ultimately enable P. putida to endure environmental stresses. Instead, the main value of polyP could be ensuring a reservoire of energy during prolonged starvation. This is perhaps one of the reasons for polyP persistence in live systems despite its apparent lack of essentiality.
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- Pablo I Nikel
- Systems and Synthetic Biology Program, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Uranga LA, Balise VD, Benally CV, Grey A, Lusetti SL. The Escherichia coli DinD protein modulates RecA activity by inhibiting postsynaptic RecA filaments. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:29480-91. [PMID: 21697094 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.245373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli dinD is an SOS gene up-regulated in response to DNA damage. We find that the purified DinD protein is a novel inhibitor of RecA-mediated DNA strand exchange activities. Most modulators of RecA protein activity act by controlling the amount of RecA protein bound to single-stranded DNA by affecting either the loading of RecA protein onto DNA or the disassembly of RecA nucleoprotein filaments bound to single-stranded DNA. The DinD protein, however, acts postsynaptically to inhibit RecA during an on-going DNA strand exchange, likely through the disassembly of RecA filaments. DinD protein does not affect RecA single-stranded DNA filaments but efficiently disassembles RecA when bound to two or more DNA strands, effectively halting RecA-mediated branch migration. By utilizing a nonspecific duplex DNA-binding protein, YebG, we show that the DinD effect is not simply due to duplex DNA sequestration. We present a model suggesting that the negative effects of DinD protein are targeted to a specific conformational state of the RecA protein and discuss the potential role of DinD protein in the regulation of recombinational DNA repair.
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- Lee A Uranga
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
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Frank EG, Cheng N, Do CC, Cerritelli ME, Bruck I, Goodman MF, Egelman EH, Woodgate R, Steven AC. Visualization of two binding sites for the Escherichia coli UmuD'(2)C complex (DNA pol V) on RecA-ssDNA filaments. J Mol Biol 2000; 297:585-97. [PMID: 10731413 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The heterotrimeric UmuD'(2)C complex of Escherichia coli has recently been shown to possess intrinsic DNA polymerase activity (DNA pol V) that facilitates error-prone translesion DNA synthesis (SOS mutagenesis). When overexpressed in vivo, UmuD'(2)C also inhibits homologous recombination. In both activities, UmuD'(2)C interacts with RecA nucleoprotein filaments. To examine the biochemical and structural basis of these reactions, we have analyzed the ability of the UmuD'(2)C complex to bind to RecA-ssDNA filaments in vitro. As estimated by a gel retardation assay, binding saturates at a stoichiometry of approximately one complex per two RecA monomers. Visualized by cryo-electron microscopy under these conditions, UmuD'(2)C is seen to bind uniformly along the filaments, such that the complexes are completely submerged in the deep helical groove. This mode of binding would impede access to DNA in a RecA filament, thus explaining the ability of UmuD'(2)C to inhibit homologous recombination. At sub-saturating binding, the distribution of UmuD'(2)C complexes along RecA-ssDNA filaments was characterized by immuno-gold labelling with anti-UmuC antibodies. These data revealed preferential binding at filament ends (most likely, at one end). End-specific binding is consistent with genetic models whereby such binding positions the UmuD'(2)C complex (pol V) appropriately for its role in SOS mutagenesis.
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- E G Frank
- Section on DNA Replication Repair, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, 20892-2725, USA
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Battisti JM, Minnick MF. Development of a system for genetic manipulation of Bartonella bacilliformis. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:3441-8. [PMID: 10427032 PMCID: PMC91517 DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.8.3441-3448.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Lack of a system for site-specific genetic manipulation has severely hindered studies on the molecular biology of all Bartonella species. We report the first site-specific mutagenesis and complementation for a Bartonella species. A highly transformable strain of B. bacilliformis, termed JB584, was isolated and found to exhibit a significant increase in transformation efficiency with the broad-host-range plasmid pBBR1MCS-2, relative to wild-type strains. Restriction analyses of genomic preparations with the methylation-sensitive restriction enzymes ClaI and StuI suggest that strain JB584 possesses a dcm methylase mutation that contributes to its enhanced transformability. A suicide plasmid, pUB1, which contains a polylinker, a pMB1 replicon, and a nptI kanamycin resistance cassette, was constructed. An internal 508-bp fragment of the B. bacilliformis flagellin gene (fla) was cloned into pUB1 to generate pUB508, a fla-targeting suicide vector. Introduction of pUB508 into JB584 by electroporation generated eight Kan(r) clones of B. bacilliformis. Characterization of one of these strains, termed JB585, indicated that allelic exchange between pUB508 and fla had occurred. Analysis by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, immunoblotting, and electron microscopy showed that synthesis of flagellin encoded by fla and secretion/assembly of flagella were abolished. Complementation of fla in trans was accomplished with a pBBR1MCS recombinant containing the entire wild-type fla gene (pBBRFLAG). These data conclusively show that inactivation of fla results in a bald, nonmotile phenotype and that pMB1 and REP replicons make suitable B. bacilliformis suicide and shuttle vectors, respectively. When used in conjunction with the highly transformable strain JB584, this system for site-specific genetic manipulation and complementation provides a new venue for studying the molecular biology of B. bacilliformis.
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- J M Battisti
- Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812-1002, USA
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Sommer S, Boudsocq F, Devoret R, Bailone A. Specific RecA amino acid changes affect RecA-UmuD'C interaction. Mol Microbiol 1998; 28:281-91. [PMID: 9622353 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00803.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The UmuD'C mutagenesis complex accumulates slowly and parsimoniously after a 12 Jm(-2) UV flash to attain after 45 min a low cell concentration between 15 and 60 complexes. Meanwhile, RecA monomers go up to 72,000 monomers. By contrast, when the UmuD'C complex is constitutively produced at a high concentration, it inhibits recombinational repair and then markedly reduces bacterial survival from DNA damage. We have isolated novel recA mutations that enable RecA to resist UmuD'C recombination inhibition. The mutations, named recA [UmuR], are located on the RecA three-dimensional structure at three sites: (i) the RecA monomer tail domain (four amino acid changes); (ii) the RecA monomer head domain (one amino acid change, which appears to interface with the amino acids in the tail domain); and (iii) in the core of a RecA monomer (one amino acid change). RecA [UmuR] proteins make recombination more efficient in the presence of UmuD'C while SOS mutagenesis is inhibited. The UmuR amino acid changes are located at a head-tail joint between RecA monomers and some are free to possibly interact with UmuD'C at the tip of a RecA polymer. These two RecA structures may constitute possible sites to which the UmuD'C complex might bind, hampering homologous recombination and favouring SOS mutagenesis.
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- S Sommer
- Institut Curie, Centre Universitaire, Orsay, France
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Bebenek A, Pietrzykowska I. The isfA mutation inhibits mutator activity and processing of UmuD protein in Escherichia coli recA730 strains. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1996; 250:674-80. [PMID: 8628227 DOI: 10.1007/bf02172978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Further studies on the isfA mutation responsible for anti-SOS and antimutagenic activities in Escherichia coli are described. We have previously shown that the isfA mutation inhibits mutagenesis and other SOS-dependent phenomena, possibly by interfering with RecA coprotease activity. The isfA mutation has now been demonstrated also to suppress mutator activity in E. coli recA730 and recA730 lexA51(Def) strains that constitutively express RecA coprotease activity. We further show that the antimutator activity of the isfA mutation is related to inhibition of RecA coprotease-dependent processing of UmuD. Expression of UmuD' from plasmid pGW2122 efficiently restores UV-induced mutagenesis in the recA730 isfA strain and partially restores its mutator activity. On the other hand, overproduction of UmuD'C proteins from pGW2123 plasmid markedly enhances UV sensitivity with no restoration of mutability.
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- A Bebenek
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland
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Slezáriková V, Masek F, Fridrichová I, Pirsel M, Sedliaková M. Constitutive increase of RecA protein: its influence on pyrimidine dimer excision and survival of UV-irradiated Escherichia coli. Mutat Res 1996; 362:61-4. [PMID: 8538649 DOI: 10.1016/0921-8777(95)00033-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Transformation of E. coli with the plasmid pRA containing recA gene increased the constitutive level of RecA protein 50-67 fold. This slightly inhibited pyrimidine dimer excision and reduced cell survival in three investigated, UV-irradiated E. coli strains. Our data support the view that RecA protein prematurely present at a high level may mask the dimers. The masking subsequently reduces the dimer excision and switches off the inducing signal.
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- V Slezáriková
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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The Escherichia coli RecA protein has at least three roles in SOS mutagenesis: (1) derepression of the SOS regulon by mediating LexA cleavage; (2) activation of the UmuD mutagenesis protein by mediating its cleavage; and (3) targeting the Umu-like mutagenesis proteins to DNA. Using a combined approach of molecular and physiological assays, it is now possible to determine which of the three defined steps has been altered in any recA mutant. In this study, we have focused on the ability of six particular recA mutants (recA85, recA430, recA432, recA433, recA435 and recA730) to perform these functions. Phenotypically, recA85 and recA730 were similar in that in lexA+ and lexA(Def) backgrounds, they exhibited constitutive coprotease activity towards the UmuD mutagenesis protein. Somewhat surprisingly, in a lexA(Ind-) background, UmuD cleavage was damage inducible, suggesting that the repressed level of the RecA* protein cannot spontaneously achieve a fully activated state. Although isolated in separate laboratories, the nucleotide sequence of the recA85 and recA730 mutants revealed that they were identical, with both alleles possessing a Glu38-->Lys change in the mutant protein. The recA430, recA433 and recA435 mutants were found to be defective for both lambda mutagenesis and UmuD cleavage. lambda mutagenesis was fully restored, however, to the recA433 and recA435 strains by a low copy plasmid expressing the mutagenically active UmuD' protein. In contrast, lambda mutagenesis was only partially restored to a recA430 strain by a high copy UmuD' plasmid, suggesting that RecA430 may also be additionally defective in targeting the Umu proteins to DNA. Sequence analysis of the recA433 and recA435 alleles revealed identical substitutions resulting in Arg243-->His. The recA432 mutation had a complex phenotype in that its coprotease activity towards UmuD depended upon the lexA background: inducible in lexA+ strains, inefficient in lexA(Ind-) cells and constitutive in a lexA(Def) background. The recA432 mutant was found to carry a Pro119-->Ser substitution, a residue believed to be at the RecA subunit interface; thus this complex phenotype may result from alterations in the assembly of RecA multimers.
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- D G Ennis
- Section on DNA Replication, Repair and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-2725
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Lovett CM, O'Gara TM, Woodruff JN. Analysis of the SOS inducing signal in Bacillus subtilis using Escherichia coli LexA as a probe. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:4914-23. [PMID: 8051005 PMCID: PMC196327 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.16.4914-4923.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We analyzed the Bacillus subtilis SOS response using Escherichia coli LexA protein as a probe to measure the kinetics of SOS activation and DNA repair in wild-type and DNA repair-deficient strains. By examining the effects of DNA-damaging agents that produce the SOS inducing signal in E. coli by three distinct pathways, we obtained evidence that the nature of the SOS inducing signal has been conserved in B. subtilis. In particular, we used the B. subtilis DNA polymerase III inhibitor, 6-(p-hydroxyphenylazo)-uracil, to show that DNA replication is required to generate the SOS inducing signal following UV irradiation. We also present evidence that single-stranded gaps, generated by excision repair, serve as part of the UV inducing signal. By assaying the SOS response in B. subtilis dinA, dinB, and dinC mutants, we identified distinct deficiencies in SOS activation and DNA repair that suggest roles for the corresponding gene products in the SOS response.
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- C M Lovett
- Department of Chemistry, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267
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Cazaux C, Larminat F, Villani G, Johnson N, Schnarr M, Defais M. Purification and biochemical characterization of Escherichia coli RecA proteins mutated in the putative DNA binding site. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37186-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Whitby MC, Ryder L, Lloyd RG. Reverse branch migration of Holliday junctions by RecG protein: a new mechanism for resolution of intermediates in recombination and DNA repair. Cell 1993; 75:341-50. [PMID: 8402917 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(93)80075-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The RecG protein of E. coli is a junction-specific DNA helicase involved in recombination and DNA repair. The function of the protein was investigated using an in vitro recombination reaction catalyzed by RecA. We show that RecG counters RecA-driven strand exchange by catalyzing branch migration of the Holliday junction in the reverse direction. This activity represents a new mechanism for resolving recombination intermediates that is independent of junction cleavage. We discuss how reverse branch migration can facilitate DNA repair, promote recombination in conjugational crosses, and confine the distribution of Chi-stimulated cross-overs. We suggest that the RecG mechanism for resolution of junctions is universal and provides a simple system that allows gene conversion without associated crossing over.
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- M C Whitby
- Department of Genetics, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, England
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Liu SK, Eisen JA, Hanawalt PC, Tessman I. recA mutations that reduce the constitutive coprotease activity of the RecA1202(Prtc) protein: possible involvement of interfilament association in proteolytic and recombination activities. J Bacteriol 1993; 175:6518-29. [PMID: 8407828 PMCID: PMC206762 DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.20.6518-6529.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Twenty-eight recA mutants, isolated after spontaneous mutagenesis generated by the combined action of RecA1202(Prtc) and UmuDC proteins, were characterized and sequenced. The mutations are intragenic suppressors of the recA1202 allele and were detected by the reduced coprotease activity of the gene product. Twenty distinct mutation sites were found, among which two mutations, recA1620 (V-275-->D) and recA1631 (I-284-->N), were mapped in the C-terminal portion of the interfilament contact region (IFCR) in the RecA crystal. An interaction of this region with the part of the IFCR in which the recA1202 mutation (Q-184-->K) is mapped could occur only intermolecularly. Thus, altered IFCR and the likely resulting change in interfilament association appear to be important aspects of the formation of a constitutively active RecA coprotease. This observation is consistent with the filament-bundle theory (R. M. Story, I. T. Weber, and T. A. Steitz, Nature (London) 335:318-325, 1992). Furthermore, we found that among the 20 suppressor mutations, 3 missense mutations that lead to recombination-defective (Rec-) phenotypes also mapped in the IFCR, suggesting that the IFCR, with its putative function in interfilament association, is required for the recombinase activity of RecA. We propose that RecA-DNA complexes may form bundles analogous to the RecA bundles (lacking DNA) described by Story et al. and that these RecA-DNA bundles play a role in homologous recombination.
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- S K Liu
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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Frank EG, Hauser J, Levine AS, Woodgate R. Targeting of the UmuD, UmuD', and MucA' mutagenesis proteins to DNA by RecA protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:8169-73. [PMID: 8367479 PMCID: PMC47310 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.17.8169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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In addition to its critical role in genetic recombination, the Escherichia coli RecA protein plays a pivotal role in SOS-induced mutagenesis. This role can be separated genetically into three steps: (i) depression of the SOS regulon by mediating the posttranslational cleavage of the LexA repressor, (ii) activation of UmuD'-like proteins by mediating cleavage of the UmuD-like proteins, and (iii) a direct step, possibly to interact with and to target the Umu-like mutagenesis proteins to lesions in DNA. We have analyzed RecA's third role biochemically using protein affinity chromatography and an agarose-based DNA mobility-shift assay. RecA730 protein from a crude cell extract was specifically retained on UmuD and UmuD' protein affinity columns, suggesting that these proteins physically interact. Normally, neither UmuD nor UmuD' shows any affinity for DNA. In the presence of RecA protein, however, UmuD and UmuD' were targeted to DNA. RecA1730 protein, which is defective for UmuD' but proficient for MucA'-promoted mutagenesis, showed a dramatically reduced capacity to target UmuD' to DNA but was able to target a significant portion of MucA' to DNA. These data support the suggestion that the direct role of RecA protein in SOS-induced mutagenesis is to interact with and target the Umu-like mutagenesis proteins to DNA.
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- E G Frank
- Section on DNA Replication, Repair, and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- S Adhya
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Broom MF, Sherriff RM, Ferry DM, Chadwick VS. Formylmethionyl-leucylphenylalanine and the SOS operon in Escherichia coli: a model of host-bacterial interactions. Biochem J 1993; 291 ( Pt 3):895-900. [PMID: 8489516 PMCID: PMC1132453 DOI: 10.1042/bj2910895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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To determine the biological significance of the existence of highly specific receptors for the bacterial chemotactic peptide formylmethionyl-leucylphenylalanine (fMet-Leu-Phe) on neutrophil leucocytes, we investigated the role of this peptide in bacterial metabolism. The UmuD protein of the Escherichia coli SOS operon was identified as having an N-terminal fMet-Leu-Phe sequence and a recombinant E. coli with the umuD gene on plasmid pSB13 was shown to be an over-producer of both UmuD and fMet-Leu-Phe. Activation of SOS genes in conventional wild-type E. coli (K12) by u.v. light or hydrogen peroxide increased fMet-Leu-Phe production up to 4-fold. A RecA- strain, incapable of SOS activation, was a low basal producer of fMet-Leu-Phe and showed no increased production with u.v. light or oxidant stress. We propose that host phagocytes respond to fMet-Leu-Phe and closely related peptides because they are generated by bacteria under oxidant stress. Increased fMet-Leu-Phe production may signal to the host a change in the organism's biological status from commensal to pathogen because of the invasion into tissues exposing bacteria to high pO2 levels and oxidant stress.
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- M F Broom
- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Gigliani F, Ciotta C, Del Grosso MF, Battaglia PA. pR plasmid replication provides evidence that single-stranded DNA induces the SOS system in vivo. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1993; 238:333-8. [PMID: 8492801 DOI: 10.1007/bf00291991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Evidence is presented that the pR bat gene is essential for plasmid replication and for spontaneous induction of the SOS response in Escherichia coli. Mutations preventing single-stranded DNA production, needed for pR plasmid replication, also prevent the induction of the SOS system. The following experimental design was used. Firstly, we identified the minima rep region, defined as the minimal DNA sequence necessary for pR plasmid replication and, secondly, analyzed the nucleotide sequence of this region. This identified structures and functions (ori-plus, ori-minus and Rep protein) homologous to those found in phages and plasmids replicating by the rolling-circle mechanism. Finally, mutations were introduced either in the replication protein catalytic site or in the nick site consensus sequence, which caused the pR plasmid to lose its ability to induce the SOS system. We conclude that, in this system, the in vivo SOS-inducing signal appears to be the single-stranded DNA produced during pR replication.
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- F Gigliani
- Dipartimento di Biopatologia Umana, Università La Sapienza, Policlinico Umberto, Roma, Italy
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Goodman MF, Creighton S, Bloom LB, Petruska J. Biochemical basis of DNA replication fidelity. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 1993; 28:83-126. [PMID: 8485987 DOI: 10.3109/10409239309086792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 391] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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DNA polymerase is the critical enzyme maintaining genetic integrity during DNA replication. Individual steps in the replication process that contribute to DNA synthesis fidelity include nucleotide insertion, exonucleolytic proofreading, and binding to and elongation of matched and mismatched primer termini. Each process has been investigated using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) to resolve 32P-labeled primer molecules extended by polymerase. We describe how integrated gel band intensities can be used to obtain site-specific velocities for addition of correct and incorrect nucleotides, extending mismatched compared to correctly matched primer termini and measuring polymerase dissociation rates and equilibrium DNA binding constants. The analysis is based on steady-state "single completed hit conditions", where polymerases encounter many DNA molecules but where each DNA encounters an enzyme at most once. Specific topics addressed include nucleotide misinsertion, mismatch extension, exonucleolytic proofreading, single nucleotide discrimination using PCR, promiscuous mismatch extension by HIV-1 and AMV reverse transcriptases, sequence context effects on fidelity and polymerase dissociation, structural and kinetic properties of mispairs relating to fidelity, error avoidance mechanisms, kinetics of copying template lesions, the "A-rule" for insertion at abasic template lesions, an interesting exception to the "A-rule", thermodynamic and kinetic determinants of base pair discrimination by polymerases.
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- M F Goodman
- University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences, Los Angeles 90089-1340
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Livneh Z, Cohen-Fix O, Skaliter R, Elizur T. Replication of damaged DNA and the molecular mechanism of ultraviolet light mutagenesis. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 1993; 28:465-513. [PMID: 8299359 DOI: 10.3109/10409239309085136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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On UV irradiation of Escherichia coli cells, DNA replication is transiently arrested to allow removal of DNA damage by DNA repair mechanisms. This is followed by a resumption of DNA replication, a major recovery function whose mechanism is poorly understood. During the post-UV irradiation period the SOS stress response is induced, giving rise to a multiplicity of phenomena, including UV mutagenesis. The prevailing model is that UV mutagenesis occurs by the filling in of single-stranded DNA gaps present opposite UV lesions in the irradiated chromosome. These gaps can be formed by the activity of DNA replication or repair on the damaged DNA. The gap filling involves polymerization through UV lesions (also termed bypass synthesis or error-prone repair) by DNA polymerase III. The primary source of mutations is the incorporation of incorrect nucleotides opposite lesions. UV mutagenesis is a genetically regulated process, and it requires the SOS-inducible proteins RecA, UmuD, and UmuC. It may represent a minor repair pathway or a genetic program to accelerate evolution of cells under environmental stress conditions.
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- Z Livneh
- Department of Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Slezáriková V, Sedliaková M, Andreeva IV, Rusina OYu, Skavronskaya AG. Effect of plasmid pKM101 in ultraviolet irradiated uvr+ and uvr- Escherichia coli. Mutat Res 1992; 270:145-9. [PMID: 1383731 DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(92)90125-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The effect of plasmid pKM101 on UV irradiated excision proficient and excision deficient cells was investigated. The plasmid increased the survival of excision proficient cells while partially inhibiting thymine dimer excision. The frequency of mutations was almost unchanged. In excision deficient cells the effect of the plasmid on survival was less pronounced while cell mutability was increased. Our data indicate that the mucAB genes (carried by the plasmid) influence the two types of cells in a different way.
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- V Slezáriková
- Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
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Rajagopalan M, Lu C, Woodgate R, O'Donnell M, Goodman MF, Echols H. Activity of the purified mutagenesis proteins UmuC, UmuD', and RecA in replicative bypass of an abasic DNA lesion by DNA polymerase III. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:10777-81. [PMID: 1438275 PMCID: PMC50425 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.22.10777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The introduction of a replication-inhibiting lesion into the DNA of Escherichia coli generates the induced, multigene SOS response. One component of the SOS response is a marked increase in mutation rate, dependent on RecA protein and the induced mutagenesis proteins UmuC and UmuD. A variety of previous indirect approaches have indicated that SOS mutagenesis results from replicative bypass of the DNA lesion by DNA polymerase III (pol III) holoenzyme in a reaction mediated by RecA, UmuC, and a processed form of UmuD termed UmuD'. To study the biochemistry of SOS mutagenesis, we have reconstituted replicative bypass with a defined in vitro system containing purified protein and a DNA substrate with a single abasic DNA lesion. The replicative bypass reaction requires pol III, UmuC, UmuD', and RecA. The nonprocessed UmuD protein does not replace UmuD' but inhibits the bypass activity of UmuD', perhaps by sequestering UmuD' in a heterodimer. Our experiments demonstrate directly that the UmuC-UmuD' complex and RecA act to rescue an otherwise stalled pol III holoenzyme at a replication-blocking DNA lesion.
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- M Rajagopalan
- Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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Hauser J, Levine AS, Ennis DG, Chumakov KM, Woodgate R. The enhanced mutagenic potential of the MucAB proteins correlates with the highly efficient processing of the MucA protein. J Bacteriol 1992; 174:6844-51. [PMID: 1400235 PMCID: PMC207361 DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.21.6844-6851.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Inducible mutagenesis in Escherichia coli requires the direct action of the chromosomally encoded UmuDC proteins or functional homologs found on certain naturally occurring plasmids. Although structurally similar, the five umu-like operons that have been characterized at the molecular level vary in their ability to enhance cellular and phage mutagenesis; of these operons, the mucAB genes from the N-group plasmid pKM101 are the most efficient at promoting mutagenesis. During the mutagenic process, UmuD is posttranslationally processed to an active form, UmuD'. To explain the more potent mutagenic efficiency of mucAB compared with that of umuDC it has been suggested that unlike UmuD, intact MucA is functional for mutagenesis. To examine this possibility, we have overproduced and purified the MucA protein. Although functionally similar to UmuD, MucA was cleaved much more rapidly both in vitro and in vivo than UmuD. In vivo, restoration of mutagenesis functions to normally nonmutable recA430, recA433, recA435, or recA730 delta(umuDC)595::cat strains by either MucA+ or mutant MucA protein correlated with the appearance of the cleavage product, MucA'. These results suggest that most of the differences in mutagenic phenotype exhibited by MucAB and UmuDC correlate with the efficiency of posttranslational processing of MucA and UmuD rather than an inherent activity of the unprocessed proteins.
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- J Hauser
- Section on Viruses and Cellular Biology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland
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Lavery P, Kowalczykowski S. Biochemical basis of the constitutive repressor cleavage activity of recA730 protein. A comparison to recA441 and recA803 proteins. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)36735-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Larminat F, Cazaux C, Germanier M, Defais M. New mutations in and around the L2 disordered loop of the RecA protein modulate recombination and/or coprotease activity. J Bacteriol 1992; 174:6264-9. [PMID: 1400177 PMCID: PMC207696 DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.19.6264-6269.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The RecA protein plays a key role in Escherichia coli recombination and DNA repair. We have created new recA mutants with mutations in the vicinity of the recA430 mutation (Gly-204----Ser) which is known to affect RecA coprotease activity. Mutants carrying recA659 or recA611, located 3 and 7 amino acids downstream of residue 204, respectively, lose all RecA activities, while the mutant carrying recA616, which is located at 12 amino acids from this residue, keeps the coprotease activity but is unable to promote recombination. Complementation experiments show that both mutations recA611 and recA659 are dominant over the wild-type or recA430 allele while recA616 seems to be recessive to recA+ and dominant over recA430. It is suggested that these mutations are located in RecA domains which direct conformational modifications.
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- F Larminat
- Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie Fondamentales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
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Higashitani N, Higashitani A, Roth A, Horiuchi K. SOS induction in Escherichia coli by infection with mutant filamentous phage that are defective in initiation of complementary-strand DNA synthesis. J Bacteriol 1992; 174:1612-8. [PMID: 1537803 PMCID: PMC206557 DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.5.1612-1618.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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We report that the SOS response is induced in Escherichia coli by infection with mutant filamentous phage that are defective in initiation of the complementary (minus)-strand synthesis. One such mutant, R377, which lacks the entire region of the minus-strand origin, failed to synthesize any detectable amount of primer RNA for minus-strand synthesis. In addition, the rate of conversion of parental single-stranded DNA of the mutant to the double-stranded replicative form in infected cells was extremely slow. Upon infection, R377 induced the SOS response in the cell, whereas the wild-type phage did not. The SOS induction was monitored by (i) induction of beta-galactosidase in a strain carrying a dinD::lacZ fusion and (ii) increased levels of RecA protein. In addition, cells infected with R377 formed filaments. Another deletion mutant of the minus-strand origin, M13 delta E101 (M. H. Kim, J. C. Hines, and D. S. Ray, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78:6784-6788, 1981), also induced the SOS response in E. coli. M13Gori101 (D. S. Ray, J. C. Hines, M. H. Kim, R. Imber, and N. Nomura, Gene 18:231-238, 1982), which is a derivative of M13 delta E101 carrying the primase-dependent minus-strand origin of phage G4, did not induce the SOS response. These observations indicate that single-stranded DNA by itself induces the SOS response in vivo.
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- N Higashitani
- Department of Genetics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Mishima, Japan
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Wojciechowski MF, Peterson KR, Love PE. Regulation of the SOS response in Bacillus subtilis: evidence for a LexA repressor homolog. J Bacteriol 1991; 173:6489-98. [PMID: 1917874 PMCID: PMC208985 DOI: 10.1128/jb.173.20.6489-6498.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The inducible SOS response for DNA repair and mutagenesis in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis resembles the extensively characterized SOS system of Escherichia coli. In this report, we demonstrate that the cellular repressor of the E. coli SOS system, the LexA protein, is specifically cleaved in B. subtilis following exposure of the cells to DNA-damaging treatments that induce the SOS response. The in vivo cleavage of LexA is dependent upon the functions of the E. coli RecA protein homolog in B. subtilis (B. subtilis RecA) and results in the same two cleavage fragments as produced in E. coli cells following the induction of the SOS response. We also show that a mutant form of the E. coli RecA protein (RecA430) can partially substitute for the nonfunctional cellular RecA protein in the B. subtilis recA4 mutant, in a manner consistent with its known activities and deficiencies in E. coli. RecA430 protein, which has impaired repressor cleaving (LexA, UmuD, and bacteriophage lambda cI) functions in E.coli, partially restores genetic exchange to B. subtilis recA4 strains but, unlike wild-type E. coli RecA protein, is not capable of inducing SOS functions (expression of DNA damage-inducible [din::Tn917-lacZ] operons or RecA synthesis) in B. subtilis in response to DNA-damaging agents or those functions that normally accompany the development of physiological competence. Our results provide support for the existence of a cellular repressor in B. subtilis that is functionally homologous to the E. coli LexA repressor and suggest that the mechanism by which B. subtilis RecA protein (like RecA of E. coli) becomes activated to promote the induction of the SOS response is also conserved.
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- M F Wojciechowski
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Bates H, Bridges BA, Woodgate R. Mutagenic DNA repair in Escherichia coli, XX. Overproduction of UmuD' protein results in suppression of the umuC36 mutation in excision defective bacteria. Mutat Res 1991; 250:199-204. [PMID: 1944336 DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(91)90176-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Overproduction of Umu+ or UmuD' protein by means of a gene carried on a multicopy plasmid suppressed the umuC36 phenotype and permitted induction of mutations by ultraviolet light. The umuC122::Tn5 phenotype was not suppressed. Suppression of the umuC36 phenotype was only seen when excision repair was blocked by acriflavine or by an uvrA or uvrB mutation. Cleavage of UmuD to UmuD' in SOS-induced cells was not dependent upon the presence of UmuC protein. The results are interpreted in terms of a revised model in which UmuC protein is envisaged as guiding UmuD' to RecA protein which has recognized and become bound to an appropriate DNA lesion. It is suggested that the umuC36 mutation gives rise to a protein with reduced affinity for UmuD' and that the effect of this can be compensated by an excess of UmuD'.
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- H Bates
- MRC Cell Mutation Unit, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, Great Britain
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Dianov GL, Saparbaev MK, Mazin AV, Salganik RI. The chemical mutagen dimethyl sulphate induces homologous recombination of plasmid DNA by increasing the binding of RecA protein to duplex DNA. Mutat Res 1991; 249:189-93. [PMID: 1829790 DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(91)90145-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The role of different DNA damages in the stimulation of homologous recombination was studied by using an in vivo plasmid recombination assay. Dimethyl sulphate (DMS) treatment of plasmid DNA induced a 20-50-fold increase in the frequency of recombinational events. DMS treatment also stimulated RecA protein binding to double-stranded DNA. In contrast, plasmid DNA containing uracil, which, like DMS, is also subject to repair, was less effective in stimulation of recombination. The ability of purified RecA protein to bind DMS-treated or uracil-containing DNA was tested by measuring its ATPase activity. The result indicates that DMS treatment, but not uracil incorporation, stimulates RecA protein binding to DNA. We conclude, that the main reason (or the first step) for stimulation of recombination by mutagens is activation of RecA binding to damaged DNA.
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- G L Dianov
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk
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Sweasy JB, Witkin EM. Novel SOS phenotypes caused by second-site mutations in the recA430 gene of Escherichia coli. Biochimie 1991; 73:437-48. [PMID: 1911944 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(91)90111-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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E coli recA430 mutants are recombination-proficient, extremely UV sensitive, UV nonmutable and partially deficient in RecA-mediated proteolysis and in RecA-dependent 'induced replisome reactivation' (IRR), the ability to recover DNA replication activity after UV irradiation. To determine how this pleiotropic phenotype can be altered by mutation, we isolated 10 independent derivatives of a recA430 strain, selecting for increased UV resistance. Eight of the 10 owed their resistance to altered recA alleles. We here describe the phenotypes conferred by two of the new recA alleles (recA720 and recA727), each of which contains the original recA430 mutation (G662 to A) and a second-site transition: T167 to C in recA720, and G103 to A in recA727. The second-site change in recA720 suppresses all the defects caused by recA430, and causes RecA720 to exhibit greater activity than RecA+ in some respects. Some, but not all, of the recA430 defects are partially corrected by the second-site mutation in recA727.
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- J B Sweasy
- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854
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Sommer S, Leitaõ A, Bernardi A, Bailone A, Devoret R. Introduction of a UV-damaged replicon into a recipient cell is not a sufficient condition to produce an SOS-inducing signal. Mutat Res 1991; 254:107-17. [PMID: 1825863 DOI: 10.1016/0921-8777(91)90001-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Three models have been proposed for the nature of the SOS-inducing signal in E. coli. One model postulates that degradation products of damaged DNA generate an SOS-inducing signal; another model surmises that the very lesions produced by UV damage constitute the SOS-inducing signal in vivo; a third model proposes that DNA damage is processed upon DNA replication to form single-stranded DNA (the SOS signal) that activates RecA protein. We tested the models by measuring SOS induction produced by introducing into recipient cells the UV-damaged DNA of 2 constructed phagemids. We used phagemids since they transferred DNA to the recipients with 100% efficiency. The origin of replication of the phagemids was either oriC from the E. coli chromosome, or oriF from F plasmid. Replication of the oriC phagemid was dependent on methylation. A UV-damaged oriC phagemid failed to induce SOS functions in a recipient cell whereas an oriF phagemid did induce them. Our results disprove the first and the second model proposed for the nature of the SOS-inducing signal. The failure of a UV-damaged oriC replicon to induce SOS can be explained by the third model if one assumes that replication of a UV-damaged oriC plasmid does not generate single-stranded DNA as does the E. coli chromosome after UV damage.
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- S Sommer
- Groupe d'Etude de la Mutagénèse et de la Cancérogénèse, Laboratoire d'Enzymologie, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Slater SC, Maurer R. Requirements for bypass of UV-induced lesions in single-stranded DNA of bacteriophage phi X174 in Salmonella typhimurium. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:1251-5. [PMID: 1847514 PMCID: PMC50995 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.4.1251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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According to the current model for mutagenic bypass of UV-induced lesions, efficient bypass requires three proteins: activated RecA (RecA*) and either activated UmuD (UmuD') and UmuC or their plasmid-encoded analogues, MucA' and MucB. RecA* aids synthesis of UmuD' and UmuC (and MucA'/MucB) at two levels: by inactivation of the LexA transcriptional repressor of these genes and by cleavage of UmuD (and MucA) to produce the active fragments, UmuD' (MucA'). A third role for RecA is revealed when these two roles are otherwise satisfied in a suitably engineered strain. An often-suggested possible role for RecA in bypass is inhibition of editing by the epsilon subunit of DNA polymerase III. Here, by demonstrating that elimination of epsilon by deletion of its gene, dnaQ, does not relieve the requirement for the third function of RecA, we show that RecA must perform some function other than, or in addition to, inhibition of epsilon. We also show that elimination of epsilon does not relieve the requirement for either Muc protein. Moreover, we observed reactivation of irradiated phi X174 in unirradiated cells expressing MucA' and MucB. This finding makes it unlikely that the additional role of recA involves derepression of an unidentified gene or cleavage of an unidentified protein and makes it more likely that RecA participates directly in bypass.
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- S C Slater
- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106-4901
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Kowalczykowski SC. Biochemical and biological function of Escherichia coli RecA protein: behavior of mutant RecA proteins. Biochimie 1991; 73:289-304. [PMID: 1883888 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(91)90216-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The recA protein of E coli participates in several diverse biological processes and promotes a variety of complex in vitro reactions. A careful comparison of the phenotypic behavior of E coli recA mutations to the biochemical properties of the corresponding mutant proteins reveals a close parallel both between recombination phenotype and DNA strand exchange and renaturation activities, and between inducible phenomena and repressor cleavage activity. The biochemical alterations manifest by the mutant recA proteins are reflected in the strength of their interaction with ssDNA. The defective mutant recA proteins fail to properly assume the high-affinity DNA-binding state that is characteristic of the wild-type protein and, consequently, form less stable complexes with DNA. The mutant proteins displaying an 'enhanced' activity bind ssDNA with approximately the same affinity as the wild-type protein but, due to altered protein-protein interactions, they associate more rapidly with ssDNA. These changes proportionately affect the ability of recA protein to compete with SSB protein, to interact with dsDNA, and, perhaps, to bind repressor proteins. In turn, the DNA strand exchange, DNA renaturation, and repressor cleavage activities mirror these modifications.
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- S C Kowalczykowski
- Department of Cell, Molecular, and Structural Biology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611
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The role of RecA protein in the SOS response of Escherichia coli is traced from the isolation of the first recA mutant to our current understanding of the scope and regulation of this DNA damage-inducible system. In addition, possible RecA protein activities that may be essential in the expression of several SOS phenotypes (stable DNA replication, DNA replication recovery, SOS mutagenesis and RecA association with the cell membrane) are discussed.
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- E M Witkin
- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854
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Rosenberg M, Echols H. Differential recognition of ultraviolet lesions by RecA protein. Possible mechanism for preferential targeting of SOS mutagenesis to (6-4) dipyrimidine sites. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)30551-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- H Echols
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
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Sweasy JB, Witkin EM, Sinha N, Roegner-Maniscalco V. RecA protein of Escherichia coli has a third essential role in SOS mutator activity. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:3030-6. [PMID: 2188949 PMCID: PMC209104 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.6.3030-3036.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The DNA damage-inducible SOS response of Escherichia coli includes an error-prone translesion DNA replication activity responsible for SOS mutagenesis. In certain recA mutant strains, in which the SOS response is expressed constitutively, SOS mutagenesis is manifested as a mutator activity. Like UV mutagenesis, SOS mutator activity requires the products of the umuDC operon and depends on RecA protein for at least two essential activities: facilitating cleavage of LexA repressor to derepress SOS genes and processing UmuD protein to produce a fragment (UmuD') that is active in mutagenesis. To determine whether RecA has an additional role in SOS mutator activity, spontaneous mutability (tryptophan dependence to independence) was measured in a family of nine lexA-defective strains, each having a different recA allele, transformed or not with a plasmid that overproduces either UmuD' alone or both UmuD' and UmuC. The magnitude of SOS mutator activity in these strains, which require neither of the two known roles of RecA protein, was strongly dependent on the particular recA allele that was present. We conclude that UmuD'C does not determine the mutation rate independently of RecA and that RecA has a third essential role in SOS mutator activity.
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- J B Sweasy
- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854
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Kojima M, Suzuki M, Morita T, Ogawa T, Ogawa H, Tada M. Interaction of RecA protein with pBR322 DNA modified by N-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene and 4-hydroxyaminoquinoline 1-oxide. Nucleic Acids Res 1990; 18:2707-14. [PMID: 2140154 PMCID: PMC330755 DOI: 10.1093/nar/18.9.2707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Interaction of RecA protein of Escherichia coli with pBR322 DNA modified by N-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene (N-OH-AAF) and 4-hydroxyaminoquinoline 1-oxide (4HAQO) was investigated. RecA protein bound more efficiently to modified DNA than to unmodified DNA as judged by filter-binding and gel electrophoresis assay. The binding of RecA protein with modified DNA resulted in the stimulation of ATPase activity and the activation for RecA protein to stimulate the repressor cleavage. These abilities of RecA protein were increased proportionally to the number of adducts in the plasmid DNA (0-5 adducts). Apurinic and alkylated DNA did not activate RecA protein. We suggest that modification of DNA by N-OH-AAF and 4HAQO provides binding sites for RecA protein and may act as an activation signal for SOS response.
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- M Kojima
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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Sassanfar M, Roberts JW. Nature of the SOS-inducing signal in Escherichia coli. The involvement of DNA replication. J Mol Biol 1990; 212:79-96. [PMID: 2108251 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(90)90306-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 395] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The SOS genes of Escherichia coli, which include many DNA repair genes, are induced by DNA damage. Although the central biochemical event in induction, activation of RecA protein through binding of single-stranded DNA and ATP to promote cleavage of the LexA repressor, is known, the cellular event that provides this activation following DNA damage has not been well understood. We provide evidence here that the major pathway of induction after damage by a typical agent, ultraviolet light, requires an active replication fork; this result supports the model that DNA replication leaves gaps where elongation stops at damage-induced lesions, and thus provides the single-stranded DNA that activates RecA protein. In order to detect quantitatively the immediate product of the inducing signal, activated RecA protein, we have designed an assay to measure the rate of disappearance of intact LexA repressor. With this assay, we have studied the early phase of the induction process. LexA cleavage is detectable within minutes after DNA damage and occurs in the absence of protein synthesis. By following the reaccumulation of LexA in the cell, we detect repair of DNA and the disappearance of the inducing signal. Using this assay, we have measured the LexA content of wild-type and various mutant cells, characterized the kinetics and conditions for development of the inducing signal after various inducing treatments and, finally, have shown the requirement for DNA replication in SOS induction by ultraviolet light.
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- M Sassanfar
- Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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One of the best-studied DNA repair pathways is nucleotide excision repair, a process consisting of DNA damage recognition, incision, excision, repair resynthesis, and DNA ligation. Escherichia coli has served as a model organism for the study of this process. Recently, many of the proteins that mediate E. coli nucleotide excision have been purified to homogeneity; this had led to a molecular description of this repair pathway. One of the key repair enzymes of this pathway is the UvrABC nuclease complex. The individual subunits of this enzyme cooperate in a complex series of partial reactions to bind to and incise the DNA near a damaged nucleotide. The UvrABC complex displays a remarkable substrate diversity. Defining the structural features of DNA lesions that provide the specificity for damage recognition by the UvrABC complex is of great importance, since it represents a unique form of protein-DNA interaction. Using a number of in vitro assays, researchers have been able to elucidate the action mechanism of the UvrABC nuclease complex. Current research is devoted to understanding how these complex events are mediated within the living cell.
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- B Van Houten
- Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405
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Escherichia coli recA (Prtc) strains, which produce protease constitutive RecA proteins in the absence of DNA-damaging treatments, display an increased frequency of spontaneous mutations. These mutations occurred preferentially in the neighborhood of the recA gene. This cis-like mutagenic effect was observed in the recA, rexAB, phoE and bio genes. The localized mutagenesis can be explained by the ease with which RecA(Prtc) proteins are activated to the protease state, which implies that there should be a relatively high concentration of activated RecA protein near the recA gene, where the protein is synthesized. The unusually high frequency of mutation in the recA gene is a novel example of an overactive gene preferentially turning itself down by mutation.
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- S K Liu
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907
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Quiñones A. Regulation of the dnaQ gene of Escherichia coli in mutants expressing the SOS regulon constitutively. J Basic Microbiol 1990; 30:353-62. [PMID: 2242163 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.3620300512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Current models for the mechanism of SOS mutagenesis in E. coli propose the involvement of a new or modified DNA polymerase III holoenzyme in error-prone replicative bypass of bulky DNA lesions assuming an inhibited or excluded 3'----5' proofreading exonuclease function of DNA polymerase. By promotor fusion to galK, gene fusion to lacZ and Sl analysis the in vivo regulation of dnaQ coding the proofreading subunit of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme was analyzed under conditions of induced or constitutive SOS expression. The results presented here clearly show that, at least on the level of gene expression no regulatory event seems to contribute to the assumed decrease of proofreading activity during SOS mediated error-prone bypassing of bulky lesions. On the contrary, an increase in dnaQ gene expression was observed following treatment with some SOS inducing agents which produces bulky DNA lesions.
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- A Quiñones
- Wissenschaftsbereich Genetik der Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle, DDR
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- A I Roca
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706
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Woodgate R, Rajagopalan M, Lu C, Echols H. UmuC mutagenesis protein of Escherichia coli: purification and interaction with UmuD and UmuD'. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:7301-5. [PMID: 2552436 PMCID: PMC298049 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.19.7301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The introduction of a replication-inhibiting lesion into the DNA of Escherichia coli produces a marked elevation in mutation rate. The mutation pathway is a component of the induced, multigene SOS response. SOS mutagenesis is a tightly regulated process dependent on two RecA-mediated proteolytic events: cleavage of the LexA repressor to induce the UmuC and UmuD mutagenesis proteins, and cleavage of UmuD to UmuD' to activate the mutation pathway. To investigate the protein-protein interactions responsible for SOS mutagenesis, we have studied the interaction of UmuC, UmuD, and UmuD'. To probe intracellular interaction, we have used immunoprecipitation techniques with antibodies against UmuC or UmuD and UmuD'. We have found that antibody to UmuC precipitates UmuD' from cell extracts, and antibody to UmuD and UmuD' precipitates UmuC. Thus we conclude that UmuC probably associates tightly with UmuD' in cells. For biochemical studies, we have purified the UmuC and UmuD' proteins to use with the previously purified UmuD. UmuC associates strongly with an affinity column of UmuD and UmuD', eluting only under strongly dissociating conditions (2 M urea or 1.5 M KSCN). UmuC also associates efficiently with UmuD or UmuD' in solution, as judged by velocity sedimentation in a glycerol gradient. The likely stoichiometry is one UmuC with a dimeric UmuD or UmuD'. From these experiments and previous work, we infer that SOS mutagenesis depends on the action of the UmuC-UmuD' complex and probably RecA to rescue a stalled DNA polymerase III holoenzyme at the DNA lesion.
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- R Woodgate
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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phi X174 replicative form (RF) I transfecting DNA containing thymine glycols (5,6-dihydroxy-5,6-dihydrothymine), urea glycosides or apurinic (AP) sites was used to study SOS processing of unique DNA damages in Escherichia coli. All three lesions can be found in DNA damaged by chemical oxidants or radiation and are representative of several common structural modifications of DNA bases. When phi X DNA containing thymine glycols was transfected into host cells that were ultraviolet-irradiated to induce the SOS response, a substantial increase in survival was observed compared to transfection into uninduced hosts. Studies with mutants demonstrated that both the activated form of RecA and UmuDC proteins were required for this reactivation. In contrast, no increase in survival was observed when DNA containing urea glycosides or AP sites was transfected into ultraviolet-induced hosts. These data suggest that SOS-induced reactivation does not reflect a generalized repair system for all replication-blocking, lethal lesions but rather that the efficiency of reactivation is damage dependent. Further, we found that a significant fraction of potentially lethal thymine glycols could be ultraviolet-reactivated in an umuC lexA recA-independent manner, suggesting the existence of an as yet uncharacterized damage-inducible SOS-independent mode of thymine glycol repair.
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- M F Laspia
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595
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Trgovcević Z, Lers N, Brcić-Kostić K, Salaj-Smic E. Post-ultraviolet DNA synthesis in the absence of repair: role of the single-strand DNA-binding protein. Int J Radiat Biol 1989; 55:739-45. [PMID: 2565935 DOI: 10.1080/09553008914550791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Post-ultraviolet DNA synthesis kinetics were investigated in the Escherichia coli uvrA recA strain and its isogenic counterpart, overproducing single-strand DNA-binding protein (SSB). It was demonstrated that large quantities of SSB enhance the capacity of the unmodified replisome to use the UV-damaged template for DNA synthesis. DNA thus synthesized is of low molecular weight, as shown by sedimentation in alkaline sucrose gradients. It is therefore suggested that SSB actively participates in the replisome translocation past dimers and/or the initiation of new DNA chains downstream of these lesions.
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Dutreix M, Moreau PL, Bailone A, Galibert F, Battista JR, Walker GC, Devoret R. New recA mutations that dissociate the various RecA protein activities in Escherichia coli provide evidence for an additional role for RecA protein in UV mutagenesis. J Bacteriol 1989; 171:2415-23. [PMID: 2651400 PMCID: PMC209916 DOI: 10.1128/jb.171.5.2415-2423.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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To isolate strains with new recA mutations that differentially affect RecA protein functions, we mutagenized in vitro the recA gene carried by plasmid mini-F and then introduced the mini-F-recA plasmid into a delta recA host that was lysogenic for prophage phi 80 and carried a lac duplication. By scoring prophage induction and recombination of the lac duplication, we isolated new recA mutations. A strain carrying mutation recA1734 (Arg-243 changed to Leu) was found to be deficient in phi 80 induction but proficient in recombination. The mutation rendered the host not mutable by UV, even in a lexA(Def) background. Yet, the recA1734 host became mutable upon introduction of a plasmid encoding UmuD*, the active carboxyl-terminal fragment of UmuD. Although the recA1734 mutation permits cleavage of lambda and LexA repressors, it renders the host deficient in the cleavage of phi 80 repressor and UmuD protein. Another strain carrying mutation recA1730 (Ser-117 changed to Phe) was found to be proficient in phi 80 induction but deficient in recombination. The recombination defect conferred by the mutation was partly alleviated in a cell devoid of LexA repressor, suggesting that, when amplified, RecA1730 protein is active in recombination. Since LexA protein was poorly cleaved in the recA1730 strain while phage lambda was induced, we conclude that RecA1730 protein cannot specifically mediate LexA protein cleavage. Our results show that the recA1734 and recA1730 mutations differentially affect cleavage of various substrates. The recA1730 mutation prevented UV mutagenesis, even upon introduction into the host of a plasmid encoding UmuD* and was dominant over recA+. With respect to other RecA functions, recA1730 was recessive to recA+. This demonstrates that RecA protein has an additional role in mutagenesis beside mediating the cleavage of LexA and UmuD proteins.
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- M Dutreix
- Groupe d'Etude Mutagénèse et Cancérogénèse, Enzymologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Ennis DG, Ossanna N, Mount DW. Genetic separation of Escherichia coli recA functions for SOS mutagenesis and repressor cleavage. J Bacteriol 1989; 171:2533-41. [PMID: 2651406 PMCID: PMC209931 DOI: 10.1128/jb.171.5.2533-2541.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Evidence is presented that recA functions which promote the SOS functions of mutagenesis, LexA protein proteolysis, and lambda cI repressor proteolysis are each genetically separable from the others. This separation was observed in recombination-proficient recA mutants and rec+ (F' recA56) heterodiploids. recA430, recA433, and recA435 mutants and recA+ (F' recA56) heterodiploids were inducible for only one or two of the three functions and defective for mutagenesis. recA80 and recA432 mutants were constitutively activated for two of the three functions in that these mutants did not have to be induced to express the functions. We propose that binding of RecA protein to damaged DNA and subsequent interaction with small inducer molecules gives rise to conformational changes in RecA protein. These changes promote surface-surface interactions with other target proteins, such as cI and LexA proteins. By this model, the recA mutants are likely to have incorrect amino acids substituted as sites in the RecA protein structure which affect surface regions required for protein-protein interactions. The constitutively activated mutants could likewise insert altered amino acids at sites in RecA which are involved in the activation of RecA protein by binding small molecules or polynucleotides which metabolically regulate RecA protein.
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- D G Ennis
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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