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Lu CH, Li HW. DNA with Different Local Torsional States Affects RecA-Mediated Recombination Progression. Chemphyschem 2017; 18:584-590. [PMID: 28054431 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201601281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2016] [Revised: 01/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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DNA topology is thought to affect DNA enzyme activity. The helical structure of duplex DNA dictates the change of topological states during strand separation when DNA is constrained. During the repair of DNA double-stranded breaks, the RecA nucleoprotein filament invades DNA and carries out consecutive strand exchange reactions coupled with duplex DNA strand separation. It has been suggested that torsional strain could be generated and its accumulation could inhibit strand exchange. We used hairpin and nicked DNA substrates to test how torsional strain alters the RecA-mediated strand exchange efficiency. Single-molecule tethered particle motion (TPM) experiments showed that torsionally constrained hairpin DNA substrates returned nearly no successful strand exchange events catalyzed by RecA. Surprisingly, the strand exchange efficiencies increase in the presence of DNA nicks or loop disruption. The dwell time of transient RecA events in hairpin is shorter compared to those found in nicked or fork DNA substrates, which suggests a limited strand exchange progression in hairpin substrates. Our observation shows that RecA generates local torsional strain during strand exchange, and the inability to dissipate this torsional strain inhibits homologous recombination progression. DNA topological states are thus important regulation measures of DNA recombination.
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- Chih-Hao Lu
- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan) (R.O.C
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- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan) (R.O.C
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Mismatch repair and homeologous recombination. DNA Repair (Amst) 2015; 38:75-83. [PMID: 26739221 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2015.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2015] [Revised: 10/26/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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DNA mismatch repair influences the outcome of recombination events between diverging DNA sequences. Here we discuss how mismatch repair proteins are active in different homologous recombination subpathways and specific reaction steps, resulting in differential modulation of these recombination events, with a focus on the mechanism of heteroduplex rejection during the inhibition of recombination between slightly diverged (homeologous) DNA sequences.
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Tham KC, Hermans N, Winterwerp HHK, Cox MM, Wyman C, Kanaar R, Lebbink JHG. Mismatch repair inhibits homeologous recombination via coordinated directional unwinding of trapped DNA structures. Mol Cell 2013; 51:326-37. [PMID: 23932715 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2013] [Revised: 06/17/2013] [Accepted: 07/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Homeologous recombination between divergent DNA sequences is inhibited by DNA mismatch repair. In Escherichia coli, MutS and MutL respond to DNA mismatches within recombination intermediates and prevent strand exchange via an unknown mechanism. Here, using purified proteins and DNA substrates, we find that in addition to mismatches within the heteroduplex region, secondary structures within the displaced single-stranded DNA formed during branch migration within the recombination intermediate are involved in the inhibition. We present a model that explains how higher-order complex formation of MutS, MutL, and DNA blocks branch migration by preventing rotation of the DNA strands within the recombination intermediate. Furthermore, we find that the helicase UvrD is recruited to directionally resolve these trapped intermediates toward DNA substrates. Thus, our results explain on a mechanistic level how the coordinated action between MutS, MutL, and UvrD prevents homeologous recombination and maintains genome stability.
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- Khek-Chian Tham
- Department of Genetics, Cancer Genomics Netherlands, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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Ragunathan K, Joo C, Ha T. Real-time observation of strand exchange reaction with high spatiotemporal resolution. Structure 2011; 19:1064-73. [PMID: 21827943 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2011.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2011] [Revised: 05/23/2011] [Accepted: 06/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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RecA binds to single-stranded (ss) DNA to form a helical filament that catalyzes strand exchange with a homologous double-stranded (ds) DNA. The study of strand exchange in ensemble assays is limited by the diffusion limited homology search process, which masks the subsequent strand exchange reaction. We developed a single-molecule fluorescence assay with a few base-pair and millisecond resolution that can separate initial docking from the subsequent propagation of joint molecule formation. Our data suggest that propagation occurs in 3 bp increments with destabilization of the incoming dsDNA and concomitant pairing with the reference ssDNA. Unexpectedly, we discovered the formation of a dynamic complex between RecA and the displaced DNA that remains bound transiently after joint molecule formation. This finding could have important implications for the irreversibility of strand exchange. Our model for strand exchange links structural models of RecA to its catalytic function.
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- Kaushik Ragunathan
- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Hülter N, Wackernagel W. Frequent integration of short homologous DNA tracks during Acinetobacter baylyi transformation and influence of transcription and RecJ and SbcCD DNases. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2009; 154:3676-3685. [PMID: 19047735 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/021378-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The minimal length of integrated homologous donor DNA tracks in Acinetobacter baylyi transformation and factors influencing the location and length of tracks were determined. Donor DNA contained the nptII gene region (kanamycin resistance, KmR). This region carried nine approximately evenly spaced silent nucleotide sequence tags and was embedded in heterologous DNA. Recipient cells carried the normal nptII gene with a central 10 bp deletion (kanamycin-sensitive). The Km(R) transformants obtained had donor DNA tracks integrated covering on average only 4.6 (2-7) of the nine tags, corresponding to about 60 % of the 959 nt homologous donor DNA segment. The track positions were biased towards the 3' end of nptII. While the replication direction of recipient DNA did not affect track positions, inhibited transcription (by rifampicin) shifted the beginning of tracks towards the nptII promoter. Absence of the RecJ DNase decreased the length of tracks. Absence of SbcCD DNase increased the integration frequency of the 5' part of nptII, which can form hairpin structures of 43-75 nt, suggesting that SbcCD DNase interferes with hairpins in transforming DNA. In homology-facilitated illegitimate recombination events during transformation (in which a homologous DNA segment serves as a recombinational anchor to facilitate illegitimate recombination in neighbouring heterologous DNA), on average only about half of the approximately 800 nt long tagged nptII anchor sequences were integrated. From donor DNA with an approximately 5000 nt long homologous segment having the nptII gene in the middle, most transformants (74 %) had only a part of the donor nptII integrated, showing that short track integration occurs frequently also from large homologous DNA. It is discussed how short track integration steps can also accomplish incorporation of large DNA molecules.
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- Nils Hülter
- Genetics, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany
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- Genetics, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany
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Nishinaka T, Doi Y, Hara R, Yashima E. Elastic behavior of RecA-DNA helical filaments. J Mol Biol 2007; 370:837-45. [PMID: 17559876 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.05.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2007] [Revised: 05/09/2007] [Accepted: 05/10/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Escherichia coli RecA protein forms a right-handed helical filament with DNA molecules and has an ATP-dependent activity that exchanges homologous strands between single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and duplex DNA. We show that the RecA-ssDNA filamentous complex is an elastic helical molecule whose length is controlled by the binding and release of nucleotide cofactors. RecA-ssDNA filaments were fluorescently labelled and attached to a glass surface inside a flow chamber. When the chamber solution was replaced by a buffer solution without nucleotide cofactors, the RecA-ssDNA filament rapidly contracted approximately 0.68-fold with partial filament dissociation. The contracted filament elongated up to 1.25-fold when a buffer solution containing ATPgammaS was injected, and elongated up to 1.17-fold when a buffer solution containing ATP or dATP was injected. This contraction-elongation behavior was able to be repeated by the successive injection of dATP and non-nucleotide buffers. We propose that this elastic motion couples to the elastic motion and/or the twisting rotation of DNA strands within the filament by adjusting their helical phases.
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- Taro Nishinaka
- Yashima Super-structured Helix Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 101 Creation Core Nagoya, 2266-22 Anagahora, Shimoshidami, Nagoya 463-0003, Japan.
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To accomplish its DNA strand exchange activities, the Escherichia coli protein RecA polymerizes onto DNA to form a stiff helical nucleoprotein filament within which the DNA is extended by 50%. Homology search and recognition occurs between ssDNA within the filament and an external dsDNA molecule. We show that stretching the internal DNA greatly enhances homology recognition by increasing the probability that the homologous regions of a stretched DNA molecule and a parallel, unstretched DNA molecule will be "in register" at some position. We also show that the stretching and stiffness of the filament act together to ensure that initiation of homologous exchange between the substrate DNA molecules at one position precludes initiation of homologous exchange at any other position. This prevents formation of multiple exchange site "topological traps" which would prevent completion of the exchange reaction and resolution of the products.
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- Kevin Klapstein
- Department of Biomathematics, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1766, USA
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- C M Radding
- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
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Holmes VF, Benjamin KR, Crisona NJ, Cozzarelli NR. Bypass of heterology during strand transfer by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad51 protein. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:5052-7. [PMID: 11812836 PMCID: PMC97545 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.24.5052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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During recombination-mediated repair of DNA double-strand breaks, strand transfer proteins must distinguish a homologous repair template from closely related genomic sequences. However, some tolerance by strand transfer proteins for sequence differences is also critical: too much stringency will prevent recombination between different alleles of the same gene, but too much tolerance will lead to illegitimate recombination. We characterized the heterology tolerance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad51 by testing bypass of small heterologous inserts in either the single- or double-stranded substrate of an in vitro strand transfer reaction that models the early steps of homologous recombination. We found that the yeast protein is rather stringent, only tolerating heterologies up to 9 bases long. The efficiency of heterology bypass depends on whether the insert is in the single- or double-stranded substrate, as well as on the location of the insert relative to the end of the double-stranded linear substrate. Rad51 is distinct in that it can catalyze strand transfer in either the 3'-->5' or 5'-->3' direction. We found that bypass of heterology was independent of the polarity of strand transfer, suggesting that the mechanism of 5'-->3' transfer is the same as that of 3'-->5' transfer.
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- V F Holmes
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, 401 Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3204, USA
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Feingold M. Single-molecule studies of DNA and DNA–protein interactions. PHYSICA E: LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS AND NANOSTRUCTURES 2001; 9:616-620. [DOI: 10.1016/s1386-9477(00)00270-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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We present a simple theory of the dynamics of force generation by RecA during homologous strand exchange and a continuous, deterministic mathematical model of the proposed process. Calculations show that force generation is possible in this model for certain reasonable values of the parameters. We predict the shape of the force-velocity curve for the Holliday junction, which exhibits a distinctive kink at large retarding force, and suggest experiments which should distinguish between the proposed model and other models in the literature.
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- K Klapstein
- Department of Biomathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095,
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Shivashankar GV, Feingold M, Krichevsky O, Libchaber A. RecA polymerization on double-stranded DNA by using single-molecule manipulation: the role of ATP hydrolysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:7916-21. [PMID: 10393922 PMCID: PMC22162 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.14.7916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The polymerization of RecA on individual double-stranded DNA molecules is studied. A linear DNA (lambda DNA, 48.5 Kb), anchored at one end to a cover glass and at the other end to an optically trapped 3-micrometers diameter polystyrene bead, serves as a template. The elongation caused by RecA assembly is measured in the presence of ATP and ATP[gammaS]. By using force extension and hydrodynamic recoil, a value of the persistence length of the RecA-DNA complex is obtained. In the presence of ATP, the polymer length is unstable, first growing to saturation and then decreasing. This suggests a transient dynamics of association and dissociation for RecA on a double-stranded DNA, the process being controlled by ATP hydrolysis. Part of this dynamics is suppressed in the presence of ATP[gammaS], leading to a stabilized RecA-DNA complex. A one-dimensional nucleation and growth model is presented that may account for the protein assembly.
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- G V Shivashankar
- Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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Nishinaka T, Shinohara A, Ito Y, Yokoyama S, Shibata T. Base pair switching by interconversion of sugar puckers in DNA extended by proteins of RecA-family: a model for homology search in homologous genetic recombination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:11071-6. [PMID: 9736691 PMCID: PMC21597 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.19.11071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli RecA is a representative of proteins from the RecA family, which promote homologous pairing and strand exchange between double-stranded DNA and single-stranded DNA. These reactions are essential for homologous genetic recombination in various organisms. From NMR studies, we previously reported a novel deoxyribose-base stacking interaction between adjacent residues on the extended single-stranded DNA bound to RecA protein. In this study, we found that the same DNA structure was induced by the binding to Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad51 protein, indicating that the unique DNA structure induced by the binding to RecA-homologs was conserved from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. On the basis of this structure, we have formulated the structure of duplex DNA within filaments formed by RecA protein and its homologs. Two types of molecular structures are presented. One is the duplex structure that has the N-type sugar pucker. Its helical pitch is approximately 95 A (18.6 bp/turn), corresponding to that of an active, or ATP-form of the RecA filament. The other is one that has the S-type sugar pucker. Its helical pitch is approximately 64 A (12.5 bp/turn), corresponding to that of an inactive, or ADP-form of the RecA filament. During this modeling, we found that the interconversion of sugar puckers between the N-type and the S-type rotates bases horizontally, while maintaining the deoxyribose-base stacking interaction. We propose that this base rotation enables base pair switching between double-stranded DNA and single-stranded DNA to take place, facilitating homologous pairing and strand exchange. A possible mechanism for strand exchange involving DNA rotation also is discussed.
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- T Nishinaka
- Cellular and Molecular Biology Laboratory, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Shan Q, Cox MM. On the mechanism of RecA-mediated repair of double-strand breaks: no role for four-strand DNA pairing intermediates. Mol Cell 1998; 1:309-17. [PMID: 9659927 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(00)80031-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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RecA protein will bind to a gapped duplex DNA molecule and promote a DNA strand exchange with a second homologous linear duplex. A double-strand break in the second duplex is efficiently bypassed in the course of these reactions. We demonstrate that the bypass of double-strand breaks is not explained by a mechanism involving homologous interactions between two duplex DNA molecules, but instead requires the ATP-mediated generation of DNA torsional stress brought about by the action of RecA. The results suggest new pathways for the repair of double-strand breaks and underline the need for new paradigms to explain the alignment of homologous DNAs during genetic recombination.
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- Q Shan
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA
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Bazemore LR, Takahashi M, Radding CM. Kinetic analysis of pairing and strand exchange catalyzed by RecA. Detection by fluorescence energy transfer. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:14672-82. [PMID: 9169430 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.23.14672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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RecA is a 38-kDa protein from Escherichia coli that polymerizes on single-stranded DNA, forming a nucleoprotein filament that pairs with homologous duplex DNA and carries out strand exchange in vitro. In this study, we measured RecA-catalyzed pairing and strand exchange in solution by energy transfer between fluorescent dyes on the ends of deoxyribo-oligonucleotides. By varying the position of the dyes in separate assays, we were able to detect the pairing of single-stranded RecA filament with duplex DNA as an increase in energy transfer, and strand displacement as a decrease in energy transfer. With these assays, the kinetics of pairing and strand displacement were studied by stopped-flow spectrofluorometry. The data revealed a rapid, second order, reversible pairing step that was followed by a slower, reversible, first order strand exchange step. These data indicate that an initial unstable intermediate exists which can readily return to reactants, and that a further, rate-limiting step (or steps) is required to effect or complete strand exchange.
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- L R Bazemore
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
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Topcu Z, Castora FJ. Mammalian mitochondrial DNA topoisomerase I preferentially relaxes supercoils in plasmids containing specific mitochondrial DNA sequences. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1264:377-87. [PMID: 8547327 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(95)00180-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Selected regions of mammalian mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) were inserted into pGEM plasmid vectors and used as substrates in a kinetic analysis of the highly purified bovine mitochondrial type I topoisomerase. Recombinant plasmids containing the bovine mtDNA heavy and light strand origins of replication (pZT-Hori and pZT-Lori, respectively), a major transcription termination region (pZT-Term) and a portion of cytochrome b gene (pZT-Cytb) were prepared. Southern hybridization using probes specific for either control or mtDNA-containing plasmid indicated a relative preference by the mitochondrial topoisomerase I to relax supercoils in pZT-Hori and pZT-Term. Quantitative determination of kinetic parameters derived from double-reciprocal Lineweaver-Burk plots showed that recombinant plasmids containing the heavy and light strand origins and the transcription termination region were preferentially relaxed by the mitochondrial enzyme with Km values 2.3- to 3.3-fold lower than controls. The Km values for pZT-Hori, pZT-Lori and pZT-Term were 21.0 +/- 0.9 microM, 25.2 +/- 1.0 microM and 17.0 +/- 0.8 microM, respectively, while those for control plasmids were 57.5 +/- 2.1 microM and 56.3 +/- 2.3 microM. pZT-Cytb was not preferentially relaxed compared to the control plasmid (Km = 53.4 +/- 2.0 microM vs. 56.3 +/- 2.3 microM, respectively) indicating that mitochondrial topoisomerase I preferentially interacts with certain mtDNA sequences but not others. Identical experiments with the purified nuclear enzyme did not differentiate between control or mtDNA containing plasmids.
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- Z Topcu
- Department of Biochemistry, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk 23507-1696, USA
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Bertrand P, Akhmedov AT, Lopez BS. Characterization of Reca Mediated homologous pairing on nitrocellulose membrane. Biochimie 1995; 77:840-7. [PMID: 8824762 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(95)90001-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Reactions between a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and a double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) provide an efficient model to study RecA promoted homologous recombination. We have devised an assay in which the ssDNA is first bound to a nitrocellulose membrane. RecA protein is loaded on this membrane (loading step) which is then incubated with a labelled homologous dsDNA (incubation step). Since this assay can be used for study of mutant RecA proteins or RecA-like activities in crude extracts from other organisms, we have characterized the reaction promoted on the membrane. Under these new conditions, the reaction keeps the main characteristics observed with classical assays performed in solution: increasing NaCl concentration destabilized the RecA-DNA complex, ATP gamma S was required for formation of stable RecA-DNA complex, initiation of the reaction exhibits the same polarity as in classical assays, a complete strand exchange with a 44 bp long duplex oligonucleotide has been recorded under our conditions. Moreover, our results indicate that the binding of RecA protein itself to the nitrocellulose membrane did not impair its ability to promote homologous pairing. Pairing reactions involving long dsDNA (6407 bp) were more efficient with hydrolysable ATP than with ATP gamma S only when the ssDNA was bound to the membrane. Furthermore, ATP hydrolysis was not required when using short dsDNA (44 bp). These results constitute experimental support for a new role for the ATPase activity of RecA protein: the energy produced could favor the initiation of RecA mediated recombination involving long stretches of DNA which have restricted freedom to rotation.
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- P Bertrand
- Section de Biologie, Institut Curie, Paris, France
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Gangloff S, Lieber MR, Rothstein R. Transcription, topoisomerases and recombination. EXPERIENTIA 1994; 50:261-9. [PMID: 8143800 DOI: 10.1007/bf01924009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Transcription, DNA topoisomerases and genetic recombination are interrelated for several structural reasons. Transcription can affect DNA topology, resulting in effects on recombination. It can also affect the chromatin structure in which the DNA resides. Topoisomerases can affect DNA and/or chromatin structure influencing the recombination potential at a given site. Here we briefly review the extent to which homologous direct repeat recombination and site-specific recombination in eukaryotes are affected by transcription and topoisomerases. In some cases, transcription or the absence of topoisomerases have little or no effect on recombination. In others, they are important components in the recombinational process. The common denominator of any effects of transcription and topoisomerases on recombination is their shared role in altering DNA topology.
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- S Gangloff
- Department of Genetics & Development, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032
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While the E. coli RecA protein has been the most intensively studied enzyme of homologous recombination, the unusual RecA-DNA filament has stood alone until very recently. It now appears that this protein is part of a universal family that spans all of biology, and the filament that is formed by the protein on DNA is a universal structure. With RecA's role in recombination given new and greatly increased significance, we focus in this review on the energetics of the RecA-mediated strand exchange and the relation between the energetics and recombination spanning heterologous inserts.
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- A Stasiak
- Laboratoire d'Analyse Ultrastructurale, Bâtiment de Biologie, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Bertrand P, Corteggiani E, Dutreix M, Coppey J, Lopez BS. Homologous pairing between single-stranded DNA immobilized on a nitrocellulose membrane and duplex DNA is specific for RecA activity in bacterial crude extract. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:3653-7. [PMID: 8367282 PMCID: PMC309861 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.16.3653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Reaction between a circular single stranded and a linear double stranded DNA molecule (ssDNA and dsDNA) provides an efficient system to study recombination mediated by RecA protein. However, classical assays using reaction in solution require highly purified enzymes. This limits biochemical studies of mutant RecA proteins from Escherichia coli or of RecA proteins from other organisms. We describe here an assay that is specific for RecA activity even in bacterial crude extracts. In this assay, the ssDNA is bound to a nitrocellulose membrane, proteins are loaded on this membrane and it is then incubated with a labeled homologous dsDNA. Joint molecules are visualized by autoradiography. We have shown that, despite the reduced mobility of the DNA due to its binding to the membrane, RecA protein is able to promote formation of stable plectonemic joints, in a homology dependent manner. Fourteen other proteins involved in DNA metabolism were checked and did not produce a signal in our assay. Moreover, in Dot blot analysis as well as after native electrophoresis and electrotransfer on a ssDNA coated membrane, production of a signal was strictly dependent on the presence of active RecA protein in the bacterial crude extracts used. We named this assay Pairing On Membrane blot (POM blot).
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- P Bertrand
- Institut Curie, Section de Biologie, Paris, France
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Jwang B, Radding CM. Torsional stress generated by RecA protein during DNA strand exchange separates strands of a heterologous insert. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:7596-600. [PMID: 1502170 PMCID: PMC49757 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.16.7596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Previous studies have shown that the helical RecA nucleoprotein filament formed on a circular single strand of DNA causes the progressive, directional transfer of a complementary strand from naked linear duplex DNA to the nucleoprotein filament, even when the duplex contains a sizable heterologous insertion. Since RecA protein lacks demonstrable helicase activity, the mechanism by which it pushes strand exchange through long heterologous inserts has been a quandary. In the present study, a linear duplex substrate with an insertion of 110 base pairs in its middle yielded the expected products, whereas much less of the heteroduplex product was seen when the insertion was located at either end of the duplex substrate or 160 base pairs from the far end of the duplex substrate. In an ongoing reaction of the substrate with an insertion in its middle, P1 nuclease cleaved intermediates from the point of the insertion to various distal sites. Acting on a duplex substrate that contained a single nick located in the complementary strand just beyond the insertion, RecA protein formed joint molecules but failed to complete strand exchange. These data show that negative torsional stress is generated by distant homologous interactions that occur beyond the heterologous insertion and that such stress is essential for unwinding a heterologous insertion that otherwise halts strand exchange.
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- B Jwang
- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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On the role of ATP hydrolysis in RecA protein-mediated DNA strand exchange. II. Four-strand exchanges. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)42023-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Gruzdev AD, Shurdov MA. Topological state of DNA in polytene chromosomes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1131:35-40. [PMID: 1581358 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(92)90095-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A new microfluorometric method was developed for measuring two topological characteristics of DNA in isolated nuclei, chromosomes and other DNA containing structures: (1) the relative amount of the topologically non-closed DNA (tncDNA) and (2) the supercoiling density of the topologically closed unconstrained DNA (tcDNA). The method was applied to isolated polytene nuclei and chromosomes of Chironomus thummi. The relative amount of tncDNA was found to be 0.21. Evidence in favour of the tncDNA localization in transcriptionally active loci (puffs) of the polytene chromosomes is presented. The supercoiling density of tcDNA localized, presumably, in inactive loci (bands) of the polytene chromosomes is about -0.001.
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- A D Gruzdev
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
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Chow SA, Chiu SK, Wong BC. RecA protein-promoted homologous pairing and strand exchange between intact and partially single-stranded duplex DNA. J Mol Biol 1992; 223:79-93. [PMID: 1530979 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(92)90717-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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In the pairing reaction between circular gapped and fully duplex DNA, RecA protein first polymerizes on the gapped DNA to form a nucleoprotein filament. Conditions that removed the formation of secondary structure in the gapped DNA, such as addition of Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA binding protein or preincubation in 1 mM-MgCl2, optimized the binding of RecA protein and increased the formation of joint molecules. The gapped duplex formed stable joints with fully duplex DNA that had a 5' or 3' terminus complementary to the single-stranded region of the gapped molecule. However, the joints formed had distinct properties and structures depending on whether the complementary terminus was at the 5' or 3' end. Pairing between gapped DNA and fully duplex linear DNA with a 3' complementary terminus resulted in strand displacement, symmetric strand exchange and formation of complete strand exchange products. By contrast, pairing between gapped and fully duplex DNA with a 5' complementary terminus produced a joint that was restricted to the gapped region; there was no strand displacement or symmetric strand exchange. The joint formed in the latter reaction was likely a three-stranded intermediate rather than a heteroduplex with the classical Watson-Crick structure. We conclude that, as in the three-strand reaction, the process of strand exchange in the four-strand reaction is polar and progresses in a 5' to 3' direction with respect to the initiating strand. The present study provides further evidence that in both three-strand and four-strand systems the pairing and strand exchange reactions share a common mechanism.
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- S A Chow
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Hong Kong
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Rao BJ, Jwang B, Dutreix M. Production of triple-stranded recombination intermediates by RecA protein, in vitro. Biochimie 1991; 73:363-70. [PMID: 1911938 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(91)90102-7] [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: 12/29/2022]
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During the directional strand exchange that is promoted by RecA protein between linear duplex DNA and circular single-stranded DNA, a triple-stranded DNA intermediate was formed and persisted even after the completion of strand transfer followed by deproteinization. In the deproteinized three-stranded DNA complexes, the sequestered linear third strand resisted digestion by E coli exonuclease I. In relation to polarity of strand exchange which defines the proximal and distal ends of the duplex DNA, when homology was restricted to the distal region of duplex substrate, the joints formed efficiently and were stable even upon complete deproteinization. Enzymatic probing of deproteinized distal joints with nuclease P1 revealed that the joints consist of long three-stranded structures that at neutral pH lack significant single-stranded character in any of the three strands. Instead of circular single-stranded DNA, when a linear single strand is recombined with partially homologous duplex DNA, in the presence of SSB, the formation of homologous joints by RecA protein, is significantly more efficient at distal end than at the proximal. Taken together, these observations suggest that with any single-stranded DNA (circular or linear), RecA protein efficiently promotes the formation of distal joints, from which, however, authentic strand exchange may not occur. Moreover, these joints might represent an intermediate which is trapped into a stable triple stranded state.
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- B J Rao
- Department of Human Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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Radding CM. Helical interactions in homologous pairing and strand exchange driven by RecA protein. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)67599-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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A DNA structure is defined as paranemic if the participating strands can be separated without mutual rotation of the opposite strands. The experimental methods employed to detect paranemic, unwound, DNA regions is described, including probing by single-strand specific nucleases (SNN), conformation-specific chemical probes, topoisomer analysis, NMR, and other physical methods. The available evidence for the following paranemic structures is surveyed: single-stranded DNA, slippage structures, cruciforms, alternating B-Z regions, triplexes (H-DNA), paranemic duplexes and RNA, protein-stabilized paranemic DNA. The problem of DNA unwinding during gene copying processes is analyzed; the possibility that extended paranemic DNA regions are transiently formed during replication, transcription, and recombination is considered, and the evidence supporting the participation of paranemic DNA forms in genes committed to or undergoing copying processes is summarized.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chromosomes/ultrastructure
- DNA/drug effects
- DNA/metabolism
- DNA/ultrastructure
- DNA Helicases/metabolism
- DNA Replication
- DNA Topoisomerases, Type I/metabolism
- DNA Topoisomerases, Type II/metabolism
- DNA, Single-Stranded/drug effects
- DNA, Single-Stranded/metabolism
- DNA, Single-Stranded/ultrastructure
- DNA, Superhelical/drug effects
- DNA, Superhelical/metabolism
- DNA, Superhelical/ultrastructure
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Endonucleases/metabolism
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Conformation/drug effects
- Nucleic Acid Denaturation
- Plasmids
- Transcription, Genetic
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- G Yagil
- Department of Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Chiu SK, Wong BC, Chow SA. Homologous pairing in duplex DNA regions and the formation of four-stranded paranemic joints promoted by RecA protein. Effects of gap length and negative superhelicity. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)45355-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Rosselli W, Stasiak A. Energetics of RecA-mediated recombination reactions. Without ATP hydrolysis RecA can mediate polar strand exchange but is unable to recycle. J Mol Biol 1990; 216:335-52. [PMID: 2147722 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(05)80325-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We demonstrate that the step of DNA strand exchange during RecA-mediated recombination reaction can occur equally efficiently in the presence or absence of ATP hydrolysis. The polarity of strand exchange is the same when instead of ATP its non-hydrolyzable analog adenosine-5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) is used. We show that the ATP dependence of recombination reaction is limited to the post-exchange stages of the reactions. The low DNA affinity state of RecA protomers, induced after ATP hydrolysis, is necessary for the dissociation of RecA-DNA complexes at the end of the reaction. This dissociation of RecA from DNA is necessary for the release of recombinant DNA molecules from the complexes formed with RecA and for the recycling of RecA protomers for another round of the recombination reaction.
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- W Rosselli
- Laboratoire d'Analyse Ultrastructurale, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Bortner C, Griffith J. Three-stranded paranemic joints: architecture, topological constraints and movement. J Mol Biol 1990; 215:623-34. [PMID: 2231723 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(05)80173-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The RecA and SSB proteins will catalyze the joining of two DNA molecules containing homologous sequences but lacking homologous ends in a reaction termed paranemic joining. The absence of homologous ends can be achieved by (1) pairing two circular DNAs or (2) using linear DNA(s) with ends lacking homology to the pairing partner. Here we have used electron microscopy (EM) to examine such pairings. Circular M13 single-stranded (ss) DNA enveloped by RecA protein into a presynaptic filament was paired with linear M13mp7 double-stranded (ds) DNA containing non-M13 sequences at its ends. Joint complexes were frequently seen in which the dsDNA was joined with the presynaptic filament over several kilobase (10(3) bases) lengths of the dsDNA. In this region, the presynaptic filament appeared disorganized as contrasted to the customary helical structure of the filament containing only a single strand of DNA. The same ultrastructure, but with greater detail, was observed when the samples were prepared for EM without fixation using a new method of fast-freezing and freeze-drying. EM immunogold staining demonstrated the presence of SSB protein in the disorganized region containing all three strands, but not in the regular helically arranged region. Psoralen photo-crosslinking of the DNA in the joint complexes revealed that the three DNA strands were in close proximity only over a single short (200 to 300 base-pairs) region. The joining of nicked circular M13 dsDNA and presynaptic filaments containing circular M13 ssDNA resulted in the intertwining of the dsDNA about the circular presynaptic filament. The joints produced in this case were short, as was the single region of psoralen photo-crosslinking of the three DNA strands. A model of how these long three-stranded joints form is presented involving the movement of a short "true" paranemic joint along the presynaptic filament.
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- C Bortner
- Lineberger Cancer Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514
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Kozyavkin SA, Slesarev AI, Malkhosyan SR, Panyutin IG. DNA linking potential generated by gyrase. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 191:105-13. [PMID: 2165903 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb19099.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Whether or not DNA gyrase can supercoil DNA so that alternative structures will arise in it is the major question of this work. We have shown gyrase to produce in pAO3 DNA a superhelix density sufficient for cruciform formation. However, the transition does not take place because of too slow kinetics. A change of ionic conditions in favour of more intense DNA supercoiling by gyrase shifts the midpoint of the equilibrium transition to the cruciform structure toward more supercoiled topoisomers. The width of the equilibrium transition to the cruciform as a function of linking number has been revealed to be an order of magnitude larger in buffers containing magnesium and spermidine than in buffers with monovalent cations only. We ascribe this effect to the influence that the counter ions surrounding the DNA molecule have on its elasticity, the coefficient of elasticity being dependent on superhelix density sigma. Thus, the free energy of supercoiling (a) depends on the ionic conditions and (b) is not a quadratic function of sigma in the physiological range of parameters. We propose a description of DNA as a system of links that can be either closed or open; we also introduce a new concept of the DNA linking potential akin to the chemical and electric potentials. The linking potential is a suitable parameter for describing the equilibrium distribution of links in heterogeneous DNA, the coexistence of various DNA structures, the equilibrium input and output of DNA links by enzymes, and the nonequilibrium movement of links along DNA chains. Within the framework of this approach DNA gyrase is considered as the source of the DNA linking potential.
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MESH Headings
- DNA Topoisomerases, Type I/metabolism
- DNA Topoisomerases, Type II/metabolism
- DNA, Bacterial/metabolism
- DNA, Circular/analysis
- DNA, Circular/genetics
- DNA, Superhelical/analysis
- DNA, Superhelical/genetics
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
- Escherichia coli/enzymology
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Genes, Bacterial
- Molecular Conformation
- Plasmids/genetics
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- S A Kozyavkin
- R. E. Kavetsky Institute for Oncology Problems, Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, Kiev
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Rao BJ, Jwang B, Radding CM. RecA protein reinitiates strand exchange on isolated protein-free DNA intermediates. An ADP-resistant process. J Mol Biol 1990; 213:789-809. [PMID: 2141651 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(05)80264-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Efficient homologous pairing de novo of linear duplex DNA with a circular single strand (plus strand) coated with RecA protein requires saturation and extension of the single strand by the protein. However, strand exchange, the transfer of a strand from duplex DNA to the nucleoprotein filament, which follows homologous pairing, does not require the stable binding of RecA protein to single-stranded DNA. When RecA protein was added back to isolated protein-free DNA intermediates in the presence of sufficient ADP to inhibit strongly the binding of RecA protein to single-stranded DNA, strand exchange nonetheless resumed at the original rate and went to completion. Characterization of the protein-free DNA intermediate suggested that it has a special site or region to which RecA protein binds. Part of the nascent displaced plus strand of the deproteinized intermediate was unavailable as a cofactor for the ATPase activity of RecA protein, and about 30% resisted digestion by P1 endonuclease, which acts preferentially on single-stranded DNA. At the completion of strand exchange, when the distal 5' end of the linear minus strand had been fully incorporated into heteroduplex DNA, a nucleoprotein complex remained that contained all three strands of DNA from which the nascent displaced strand dissociated only over the next 50 to 60 minutes. Deproteinization of this intermediate yielded a complex that also contained three strands of DNA in which the nascent displaced strand was partially resistant to both Escherichia coli exonuclease I and P1 endonuclease. The deproteinized complex showed a broad melting transition between 37 degrees C and temperatures high enough to melt duplex DNA. These results show that strand exchange can be subdivided into two stages: (1) the exchange of base-pairs, which creates a new heteroduplex pair in place of a parental pair; and (2) strand separation, which is the physical displacement of the unpaired strand from the nucleoprotein filament. Between the creation of new heteroduplex DNA and the eventual separation of a third strand, there exists an unusual DNA intermediate that may contain three-stranded regions of natural DNA that are several thousand bases in length.
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- B J Rao
- Department of Human Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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Kovalsky OI, Kozyavkin SA, Slesarev AI. Archaebacterial reverse gyrase cleavage-site specificity is similar to that of eubacterial DNA topoisomerases I. Nucleic Acids Res 1990; 18:2801-5. [PMID: 2160070 PMCID: PMC330767 DOI: 10.1093/nar/18.9.2801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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ATP-dependent type I topoisomerases from extremely thermophilic archaebacteria--reverse gyrases--drive positive supercoiling of DNA. We showed that reverse gyrase from Desulfurococcus amylolyticus breaks the DNA at specific sites and covalently binds to the 5' end. In 30 out of 31 sites located in pBR322 DNA fragments, cleavage occurs at the sequence 5'---CNNN/---(N is any base). The same rule was previously shown to hold for single-stranded DNA breakage by eubacterial topoisomerases I. The relative cleavage frequencies at different sites depend on Mg2+ and temperature. We discuss the possible physiological and mechanistic role of the above specificity of the bacterial topoisomerases I.
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- O I Kovalsky
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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Müller B, Koller T, Stasiak A. Characterization of the DNA binding activity of stable RecA-DNA complexes. Interaction between the two DNA binding sites within RecA helical filaments. J Mol Biol 1990; 212:97-112. [PMID: 2319601 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(90)90307-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The DNA-binding, annealing and recombinational activities of purified RecA-DNA complexes stabilized by ATP gamma S (a slowly hydrolysable analog of ATP) are described. Electrophoretic analysis, DNase protection experiments and observations by electron microscopy suggest that saturated RecA complexes formed with single- or double-stranded DNA are able to accommodate an additional single strand of DNA with a stoichiometry of about one nucleotide of added single-stranded DNA per nucleotide or base-pair, respectively, of DNA resident in the complex. This strand uptake is independent of complementarity or homology between the added and resident DNA molecules. In the complex, the incoming and resident single-stranded DNA molecules are in close proximity as the two strands can anneal in case of their complementarity. Stable RecA complexes formed with single-stranded DNA bind double-stranded DNA efficiently when the added DNA is homologous to the complexed strand and then initiate a strand exchange reaction between the partner DNA molecules. Electron microscopy of the RecA-single-stranded DNA complexes associated with homologous double-stranded DNA suggests that a portion of duplex DNA is taken into the complex and placed in register with the resident single strand. Our experiments indicate that both DNA binding sites within RecA helical filaments can be occupied by either single- or double-stranded DNA. Presumably, the same first DNA binding site is used by RecA during its polymerization on single- or double-stranded DNA and the second DNA binding site becomes available for subsequent interaction of the protein-saturated complexes with naked DNA. The way by which additional DNA is taken into RecA-DNA complexes shows co-operative character and this helps to explain how topological problems are avoided during RecA-mediated homologous recombination.
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- B Müller
- Institute of Cell Biology, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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- A I Roca
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706
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Wallis JW, Chrebet G, Brodsky G, Rolfe M, Rothstein R. A hyper-recombination mutation in S. cerevisiae identifies a novel eukaryotic topoisomerase. Cell 1989; 58:409-19. [PMID: 2546682 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(89)90855-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 456] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A hyper-recombination mutation was isolated that causes an increase in recombination between short repeated delta sequences surrounding the SUP4-omicron gene in S. cerevisiae. The wild-type copy of this gene was cloned by complementation of one of its pleiotropic phenotypes, slow growth. DNA sequence of the clone revealed a 656 amino acid open reading frame capable of encoding a protein homologous to the bacterial type I topoisomerase. No homology was detected with previously identified eukaryotic topoisomerases. Construction of double mutants with either of the two known yeast topoisomerase genes revealed synergistic effects on growth suggesting overlapping functions. Expression of bacterial topoisomerase I in yeast can fully complement the slow growth defect of a null mutation. We have named this locus TOP3 and suggest that it defines a novel eukaryotic topoisomerase gene.
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- J W Wallis
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032
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Radding CM. Helical RecA nucleoprotein filaments mediate homologous pairing and strand exchange. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 1008:131-45. [PMID: 2660904 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(80)90001-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- C M Radding
- Departments of Human Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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- T Lindahl
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Hertfordshire, UK
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Conley EC, West SC. Homologous pairing and the formation of nascent synaptic intermediates between regions of duplex DNA by RecA protein. Cell 1989; 56:987-95. [PMID: 2647306 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(89)90632-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The RecA protein from E. coli gains access to duplex DNA, by nucleation from a short single-stranded gap, to form a spiral nucleoprotein filament that is capable of interaction with homologous duplex DNA. The observations described here demonstrate that any part of the nucleoprotein filament, whether it contains single- or double-stranded DNA, is capable of pairing with homologous duplex DNA. Homologous contacts between regions of duplex DNA lead to an increase in the initial rate and final extent of joint molecule formation. The experiments indicate that pairing is facilitated by the formation of nascent synaptic intermediates between duplex DNA sequences. Using chimeric form I DNA, which is incapable of forming an inter-wound or plectonemic joint with the gapped DNA due to the presence of flanking heterologous sequences, we show that these duplex-duplex pairing reactions involve extensive underwinding of the double helix.
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- E C Conley
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Herts, England
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