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Radford HM, Toft CJ, Sorenson AE, Schaeffer PM. Inhibition of Replication Fork Formation and Progression: Targeting the Replication Initiation and Primosomal Proteins. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24108802. [PMID: 37240152 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24108802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Over 1.2 million deaths are attributed to multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacteria each year. Persistence of MDR bacteria is primarily due to the molecular mechanisms that permit fast replication and rapid evolution. As many pathogens continue to build resistance genes, current antibiotic treatments are being rendered useless and the pool of reliable treatments for many MDR-associated diseases is thus shrinking at an alarming rate. In the development of novel antibiotics, DNA replication is still a largely underexplored target. This review summarises critical literature and synthesises our current understanding of DNA replication initiation in bacteria with a particular focus on the utility and applicability of essential initiation proteins as emerging drug targets. A critical evaluation of the specific methods available to examine and screen the most promising replication initiation proteins is provided.
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- Holly M Radford
- Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Douglas, QLD 4811, Australia
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- Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Douglas, QLD 4811, Australia
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- Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Douglas, QLD 4811, Australia
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- Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Douglas, QLD 4811, Australia
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Blaine HC, Simmons LA, Stallings CL. Diverse Mechanisms of Helicase Loading during DNA Replication Initiation in Bacteria. J Bacteriol 2023; 205:e0048722. [PMID: 36877032 PMCID: PMC10128896 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00487-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2023] Open
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Initiation of DNA replication is required for cell viability and passage of genetic information to the next generation. Studies in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis have established ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities (AAA+) as essential proteins required for loading of the replicative helicase at replication origins. AAA+ ATPases DnaC in E. coli and DnaI in B. subtilis have long been considered the paradigm for helicase loading during replication in bacteria. Recently, it has become increasingly clear that most bacteria lack DnaC/DnaI homologs. Instead, most bacteria express a protein homologous to the newly described DciA (dnaC/dnaI antecedent) protein. DciA is not an ATPase, and yet it serves as a helicase operator, providing a function analogous to that of DnaC and DnaI across diverse bacterial species. The recent discovery of DciA and of other alternative mechanisms of helicase loading in bacteria has changed our understanding of DNA replication initiation. In this review, we highlight recent discoveries, detailing what is currently known about the replicative helicase loading process across bacterial species, and we discuss the critical questions that remain to be investigated.
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- Helen C. Blaine
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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Ozaki S, Wang D, Wakasugi Y, Itani N, Katayama T. The Caulobacter crescentus DciA promotes chromosome replication through topological loading of the DnaB replicative helicase at replication forks. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 50:12896-12912. [PMID: 36484102 PMCID: PMC9825169 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac1146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Revised: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The replicative DNA helicase translocates on single-stranded DNA to drive replication forks during chromosome replication. In most bacteria the ubiquitous replicative helicase, DnaB, co-evolved with the accessory subunit DciA, but how they function remains incompletely understood. Here, using the model bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, we demonstrate that DciA plays a prominent role in DNA replication fork maintenance. Cell cycle analyses using a synchronized Caulobacter cell population showed that cells devoid of DciA exhibit a severe delay in fork progression. Biochemical characterization revealed that the DnaB helicase in its default state forms a hexamer that inhibits self-loading onto single-stranded DNA. We found that upon binding to DciA, the DnaB hexamer undergoes conformational changes required for encircling single-stranded DNA, thereby establishing the replication fork. Further investigation of the functional structure of DciA revealed that the C-terminus of DciA includes conserved leucine residues responsible for DnaB binding and is essential for DciA in vivo functions. We propose that DciA stimulates loading of DnaB onto single strands through topological isomerization of the DnaB structure, thereby ensuring fork progression. Given that the DnaB-DciA modules are widespread among eubacterial species, our findings suggest that a common mechanism underlies chromosome replication.
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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Ring-shaped hexameric helicases are essential motor proteins that separate duplex nucleic acid strands for DNA replication, recombination, and transcriptional regulation. Two evolutionarily distinct lineages of these enzymes, predicated on RecA and AAA+ ATPase folds, have been identified and characterized to date. Hexameric helicases couple NTP hydrolysis with conformational changes that move nucleic acid substrates through a central pore in the enzyme. How hexameric helicases productively engage client DNA or RNA segments and use successive rounds of NTPase activity to power translocation and unwinding have been longstanding questions in the field. Recent structural and biophysical findings are beginning to reveal commonalities in NTP hydrolysis and substrate translocation by diverse hexameric helicase families. Here, we review these molecular mechanisms and highlight aspects of their function that are yet to be understood.
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Zehnder J, Cadalbert R, Yulikov M, Künze G, Wiegand T. Paramagnetic spin labeling of a bacterial DnaB helicase for solid-state NMR. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2021; 332:107075. [PMID: 34597956 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2021.107075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Labeling of biomolecules with a paramagnetic probe for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy enables determining long-range distance restraints, which are otherwise not accessible by classically used dipolar coupling-based NMR approaches. Distance restraints derived from paramagnetic relaxation enhancements (PREs) can facilitate the structure determination of large proteins and protein complexes. We herein present the site-directed labeling of the large oligomeric bacterial DnaB helicase from Helicobacter pylori with cysteine-reactive maleimide tags carrying either a nitroxide radical or a lanthanide ion. The success of the labeling reaction was followed by quantitative continuous-wave electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) experiments performed on the nitroxide-labeled protein. PREs were extracted site-specifically from 2D and 3D solid-state NMR spectra. A good agreement with predicted PRE values, derived by computational modeling of nitroxide and Gd3+ tags in the low-resolution DnaB crystal structure, was found. Comparison of experimental PREs and model-predicted spin label-nucleus distances indicated that the size of the "blind sphere" around the paramagnetic center, in which NMR resonances are not detected, is slightly larger for Gd3+ (∼14 Å) than for nitroxide (∼11 Å) in 13C-detected 2D spectra of DnaB. We also present Gd3+-Gd3+ dipolar electron-electron resonance EPR experiments on DnaB supporting the conclusion that DnaB was present as a hexameric assembly.
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Drug Discovery, Medical School, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland; Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstr. 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
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Zehnder J, Cadalbert R, Terradot L, Ernst M, Böckmann A, Güntert P, Meier BH, Wiegand T. Paramagnetic Solid-State NMR to Localize the Metal-Ion Cofactor in an Oligomeric DnaB Helicase. Chemistry 2021; 27:7745-7755. [PMID: 33822417 PMCID: PMC8252064 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202100462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
Paramagnetic metal ions can be inserted into ATP-fueled motor proteins by exchanging the diamagnetic Mg2+ cofactor with Mn2+ or Co2+ . Then, paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) or pseudo-contact shifts (PCSs) can be measured to report on the localization of the metal ion within the protein. We determine the metal position in the oligomeric bacterial DnaB helicase from Helicobacter pylori complexed with the transition-state ATP-analogue ADP:AlF4 - and single-stranded DNA using solid-state NMR and a structure-calculation protocol employing CYANA. We discuss and compare the use of Mn2+ and Co2+ in localizing the ATP cofactor in large oligomeric protein assemblies. 31 P PCSs induced in the Co2+ -containing sample are then used to localize the DNA phosphate groups on the Co2+ PCS tensor surface enabling structural insights into DNA binding to the DnaB helicase.
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- Johannes Zehnder
- Laboratorium für Physikalische ChemieETH ZürichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 28093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische ChemieETH ZürichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 28093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische ChemieETH ZürichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 28093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische ChemieETH ZürichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 28093ZürichSwitzerland
- Institute of Biophysical ChemistryCenter for Biomolecular Magnetic ResonanceGoethe University Frankfurt am Main60438Frankfurt am MainGermany
- Department of ChemistryTokyo Metropolitan UniversityHachiojiTokyo1920397Japan
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische ChemieETH ZürichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 28093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische ChemieETH ZürichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 28093ZürichSwitzerland
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Wiegand T. A solid-state NMR tool box for the investigation of ATP-fueled protein engines. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2020; 117:1-32. [PMID: 32471533 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2020.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Revised: 02/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Motor proteins are involved in a variety of cellular processes. Their main purpose is to convert the chemical energy released during adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis into mechanical work. In this review, solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) approaches are discussed allowing studies of structures, conformational events and dynamic features of motor proteins during a variety of enzymatic reactions. Solid-state NMR benefits from straightforward sample preparation based on sedimentation of the proteins directly into the Magic-Angle Spinning (MAS) rotor. Protein resonance assignment is the crucial and often time-limiting step in interpreting the wealth of information encoded in the NMR spectra. Herein, potentials, challenges and limitations in resonance assignment for large motor proteins are presented, focussing on both biochemical and spectroscopic approaches. This work highlights NMR tools available to study the action of the motor domain and its coupling to functional processes, as well as to identify protein-nucleotide interactions during events such as DNA replication. Arrested protein states of reaction coordinates such as ATP hydrolysis can be trapped for NMR studies by using stable, non-hydrolysable ATP analogues that mimic the physiological relevant states as accurately as possible. Recent advances in solid-state NMR techniques ranging from Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP), 31P-based heteronuclear correlation experiments, 1H-detected spectra at fast MAS frequencies >100 kHz to paramagnetic NMR are summarized and their applications to the bacterial DnaB helicase from Helicobacter pylori are discussed.
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- Thomas Wiegand
- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Wiegand T, Schledorn M, Malär AA, Cadalbert R, Däpp A, Terradot L, Meier BH, Böckmann A. Nucleotide Binding Modes in a Motor Protein Revealed by 31 P- and 1 H-Detected MAS Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. Chembiochem 2020; 21:324-330. [PMID: 31310428 PMCID: PMC7318265 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201900439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Protein-nucleic acid interactions play important roles not only in energy-providing reactions, such as ATP hydrolysis, but also in reading, extending, packaging, or repairing genomes. Although they can often be analyzed in detail with X-ray crystallography, complementary methods are needed to visualize them in complexes, which are not crystalline. Here, we show how solid-state NMR spectroscopy can detect and classify protein-nucleic interactions through site-specific 1 H- and 31 P-detected spectroscopic methods. The sensitivity of 1 H chemical-shift values on noncovalent interactions involved in these molecular recognition processes is exploited allowing us to probe directly the chemical bonding state, an information, which is not directly accessible from an X-ray structure. We show that these methods can characterize interactions in easy-to-prepare sediments of the 708 kDa dodecameric DnaB helicase in complex with ADP:AlF4- :DNA, and this despite the very challenging size of the complex.
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- Thomas Wiegand
- Physical ChemistryETH ZurichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/108093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Physical ChemistryETH ZurichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/108093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Physical ChemistryETH ZurichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/108093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Physical ChemistryETH ZurichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/108093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Physical ChemistryETH ZurichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/108093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Physical ChemistryETH ZurichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/108093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Physical ChemistryETH ZurichVladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/108093ZürichSwitzerland
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural BiochemistryLabex EcofectUMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon7 Passage du vercors69367LyonFrance
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Helicobacter pylori helicase loader protein Hp0897 shows unique functions of N- and C-terminal regions. Biochem J 2019; 476:3261-3279. [PMID: 31548270 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20190430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Revised: 09/19/2019] [Accepted: 09/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Helicase loaders are required for the loading of helicases at the vicinity of replication origins. In Helicobacter pylori, Hp0897 has been shown to be a potential helicase loader for replicative helicase (HpDnaB) although it does not show any sequence homology with conventional DnaC like helicase loader proteins. Therefore, it is important to investigate the in vivo role of Hp0897 and structure-function analysis with respect to domain mapping of Hp0897 and HpDnaB. Although HporiC is divided into oriC1 and oriC2, the latter has been assigned as functional origin based on loading of initiator protein HpDnaA. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiment, we show preferential binding of Hp0897 at oriC2 over oriC1 like HpDnaA highlighting its helicase loader function in vivo. Furthermore, we generated series of deletion mutants for HpDnaB and Hp0897 that enabled us to map the domains of interaction between these two proteins. Interestingly, the C-terminal domain of Hp0897 (Hp0897CTD) shows stronger interaction with HpDnaB over the N-terminal region of Hp0897 (Hp0897NTD). Similar to the full-length protein, Hp0897CTD also stimulates the DNA binding activity of HpDnaB. Furthermore, overexpression of Hp0897 full-length protein in H. pylori leads to an elongated cell phenotype. While the overexpression of Hp0897CTD does not show a phenotype of cell elongation, overexpression of Hp0897NTD shows extensive cell elongation. These results highlight the possible role of Hp0897CTD in helicase loading and Hp0897NTD's unique function linked to cell division that make Hp0897 as a potential drug target against H. pylori.
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Lacabanne D, Fogeron ML, Wiegand T, Cadalbert R, Meier BH, Böckmann A. Protein sample preparation for solid-state NMR investigations. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2019; 110:20-33. [PMID: 30803692 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2019.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Preparation of a protein sample for solid-state NMR is in many aspects similar to solution-state NMR approaches, mainly with respect to the need for stable isotope labeling. But the possibility of using solid-state NMR to investigate membrane proteins in (native) lipids adds the important requirement of adapted membrane-reconstitution schemes. Also, dynamic nuclear polarization and paramagnetic NMR in solids need specific schemes using metal ions and radicals. Sample sedimentation has enabled structural investigations of objects inaccessible to other structural techniques, but rotor filling using sedimentation has become increasingly complex with smaller and smaller rotors, as needed for higher and higher magic-angle spinning (MAS) frequencies. Furthermore, solid-state NMR can investigate very large proteins and their complexes without the concomitant increase in line widths, motivating the use of selective labeling and unlabeling strategies, as well as segmental labeling, to decongest spectra. The possibility of investigating sub-milligram amounts of protein today using advanced fast MAS techniques enables alternative protein synthesis schemes such as cell-free expression. Here we review these specific aspects of solid-state NMR sample preparation.
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- Denis Lacabanne
- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon, 69367 Lyon, France; Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon, 69367 Lyon, France
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon, 69367 Lyon, France.
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Wiegand T, Cadalbert R, Lacabanne D, Timmins J, Terradot L, Böckmann A, Meier BH. The conformational changes coupling ATP hydrolysis and translocation in a bacterial DnaB helicase. Nat Commun 2019; 10:31. [PMID: 30604765 PMCID: PMC6318325 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07968-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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DnaB helicases are motor proteins that couple ATP-hydrolysis to the loading of the protein onto DNA at the replication fork and to translocation along DNA to separate double-stranded DNA into single strands during replication. Using a network of conformational states, arrested by nucleotide mimics, we herein characterize the reaction coordinates for ATP hydrolysis, DNA loading and DNA translocation using solid-state NMR spectroscopy. AMP-PCP is used as pre-hydrolytic, ADP:AlF4- as transition state, and ADP as post-hydrolytic ATP mimic. 31P and 13C NMR spectra reveal conformational and dynamic responses to ATP hydrolysis and the resulting DNA loading and translocation with single amino-acid resolution. This allows us to identify residues guiding the DNA translocation process and to explain the high binding affinities for DNA observed for ADP:AlF4-, which turns out to be optimally preconfigured to bind DNA.
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- Thomas Wiegand
- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon, 69367, Lyon, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, CNRS, IBS, F-38000, Grenoble, France
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon, 69367, Lyon, France
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon, 69367, Lyon, France.
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Chase J, Catalano A, Noble AJ, Eng ET, Olinares PD, Molloy K, Pakotiprapha D, Samuels M, Chait B, des Georges A, Jeruzalmi D. Mechanisms of opening and closing of the bacterial replicative helicase. eLife 2018; 7:41140. [PMID: 30582519 PMCID: PMC6391071 DOI: 10.7554/elife.41140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Assembly of bacterial ring-shaped hexameric replicative helicases on single-stranded (ss) DNA requires specialized loading factors. However, mechanisms implemented by these factors during opening and closing of the helicase, which enable and restrict access to an internal chamber, are not known. Here, we investigate these mechanisms in the Escherichia coli DnaB helicase•bacteriophage λ helicase loader (λP) complex. We show that five copies of λP bind at DnaB subunit interfaces and reconfigure the helicase into an open spiral conformation that is intermediate to previously observed closed ring and closed spiral forms; reconfiguration also produces openings large enough to admit ssDNA into the inner chamber. The helicase is also observed in a restrained inactive configuration that poises it to close on activating signal, and transition to the translocation state. Our findings provide insights into helicase opening, delivery to the origin and ssDNA entry, and closing in preparation for translocation.
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- Jillian Chase
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City College of New York, New York, United States.,PhD Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City College of New York, New York, United States
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- Simons Electron Microscopy Center, The New York Structural Biology Center, New York, United States
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- Simons Electron Microscopy Center, The New York Structural Biology Center, New York, United States
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- Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
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- Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Excellence in Protein and Enzyme Technology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.,Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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- Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City College of New York, New York, United States.,PhD Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, United States.,Structural Biology Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, New York, United States.,PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City College of New York, New York, United States.,PhD Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, United States.,PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, United States.,PhD Program in Biology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, United States
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Xu ZQ, Dixon NE. Bacterial replisomes. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2018; 53:159-168. [PMID: 30292863 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2018.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2018] [Revised: 09/07/2018] [Accepted: 09/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Abstract
Bacterial replisomes are dynamic multiprotein DNA replication machines that are inherently difficult for structural studies. However, breakthroughs continue to come. The structures of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III (core)-clamp-DNA subcomplexes solved by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy in both polymerization and proofreading modes and the discovery of the stochastic nature of the bacterial replisomes represent notable progress. The structures reveal an intricate interaction network in the polymerase-clamp subassembly, providing insights on how replisomes may work. Meantime, ensemble and single-molecule functional assays and fluorescence microscopy show that the bacterial replisomes can work in a decoupled and uncoordinated way, with polymerases quickly exchanging and both leading-strand and lagging-strand polymerases and the helicase working independently, contradictory to the elegant textbook view of a highly coordinated machine.
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- Zhi-Qiang Xu
- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, and Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, and Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia.
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Faithful replication and maintenance of the genome are essential to the ability of any organism to survive and propagate. For an obligate pathogen such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis that has to complete successive cycles of transmission, infection, and disease in order to retain a foothold in the human population, this requires that genome replication and maintenance must be accomplished under the metabolic, immune, and antibiotic stresses encountered during passage through variable host environments. Comparative genomic analyses have established that chromosomal mutations enable M. tuberculosis to adapt to these stresses: the emergence of drug-resistant isolates provides direct evidence of this capacity, so too the well-documented genetic diversity among M. tuberculosis lineages across geographic loci, as well as the microvariation within individual patients that is increasingly observed as whole-genome sequencing methodologies are applied to clinical samples and tuberculosis (TB) disease models. However, the precise mutagenic mechanisms responsible for M. tuberculosis evolution and adaptation are poorly understood. Here, we summarize current knowledge of the machinery responsible for DNA replication in M. tuberculosis, and discuss the potential contribution of the expanded complement of mycobacterial DNA polymerases to mutagenesis. We also consider briefly the possible role of DNA replication-in particular, its regulation and coordination with cell division-in the ability of M. tuberculosis to withstand antibacterial stresses, including host immune effectors and antibiotics, through the generation at the population level of a tolerant state, or through the formation of a subpopulation of persister bacilli-both of which might be relevant to the emergence and fixation of genetic drug resistance.
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Zawilak-Pawlik A, Nowaczyk M, Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J. The Role of the N-Terminal Domains of Bacterial Initiator DnaA in the Assembly and Regulation of the Bacterial Replication Initiation Complex. Genes (Basel) 2017; 8:genes8050136. [PMID: 28489024 PMCID: PMC5448010 DOI: 10.3390/genes8050136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2017] [Revised: 04/28/2017] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The primary role of the bacterial protein DnaA is to initiate chromosomal replication. The DnaA protein binds to DNA at the origin of chromosomal replication (oriC) and assembles into a filament that unwinds double-stranded DNA. Through interaction with various other proteins, DnaA also controls the frequency and/or timing of chromosomal replication at the initiation step. Escherichia coli DnaA also recruits DnaB helicase, which is present in unwound single-stranded DNA and in turn recruits other protein machinery for replication. Additionally, DnaA regulates the expression of certain genes in E. coli and a few other species. Acting as a multifunctional factor, DnaA is composed of four domains that have distinct, mutually dependent roles. For example, C-terminal domain IV interacts with double-stranded DnaA boxes. Domain III drives ATP-dependent oligomerization, allowing the protein to form a filament that unwinds DNA and subsequently binds to and stabilizes single-stranded DNA in the initial replication bubble; this domain also interacts with multiple proteins that control oligomerization. Domain II constitutes a flexible linker between C-terminal domains III–IV and N-terminal domain I, which mediates intermolecular interactions between DnaA and binds to other proteins that affect DnaA activity and/or formation of the initiation complex. Of these four domains, the role of the N-terminus (domains I–II) in the assembly of the initiation complex is the least understood and appears to be the most species-dependent region of the protein. Thus, in this review, we focus on the function of the N-terminus of DnaA in orisome formation and the regulation of its activity in the initiation complex in different bacteria.
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- Anna Zawilak-Pawlik
- Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, Wroclaw 53-114, Poland.
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- Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, Wroclaw 53-114, Poland.
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- Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, Wroclaw 53-114, Poland.
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, ul. Joliot-Curie 14A, Wrocław 50-383, Poland.
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Cellular DNA replication factories depend on ring-shaped hexameric helicases to aid DNA synthesis by processively unzipping the parental DNA helix. Replicative helicases are loaded onto DNA by dedicated initiator, loader, and accessory proteins during the initiation of DNA replication in a tightly regulated, multistep process. We discuss here the molecular choreography of DNA replication initiation across the three domains of life, highlighting similarities and differences in the strategies used to deposit replicative helicases onto DNA and to melt the DNA helix in preparation for replisome assembly. Although initiators and loaders are phylogenetically related, the mechanisms they use for accomplishing similar tasks have diverged considerably and in an unpredictable manner.
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- Franziska Bleichert
- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Zawilak-Pawlik A, Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J. Recent Advances in Helicobacter pylori Replication: Possible Implications in Adaptation to a Pathogenic Lifestyle and Perspectives for Drug Design. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2017; 400:73-103. [PMID: 28124150 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50520-6_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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DNA replication is an important step in the life cycle of every cell that ensures the continuous flow of genetic information from one generation to the next. In all organisms, chromosome replication must be coordinated with overall cell growth. Helicobacter pylori growth strongly depends on its interaction with the host, particularly with the gastric epithelium. Moreover, H. pylori actively searches for an optimal microniche within a stomach, and it has been shown that not every microniche equally supports growth of this bacterium. We postulate that besides nutrients, H. pylori senses different, unknown signals, which presumably also affect chromosome replication to maintain H. pylori propagation at optimal ratio allowing H. pylori to establish a chronic, lifelong infection. Thus, H. pylori chromosome replication and particularly the regulation of this process might be considered important for bacterial pathogenesis. Here, we summarize our current knowledge of chromosome and plasmid replication in H. pylori and discuss the mechanisms responsible for regulating this key cellular process. The results of extensive studies conducted thus far allow us to propose common and unique traits in H. pylori chromosome replication. Interestingly, the repertoire of proteins involved in replication in H. pylori is significantly different to that in E. coli, strongly suggesting that novel factors are engaged in H. pylori chromosome replication and could represent attractive drug targets.
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- Anna Zawilak-Pawlik
- Department of Microbiology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ul. Weigla 12, 53-114, Wrocław, Poland.
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- Department of Microbiology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ul. Weigla 12, 53-114, Wrocław, Poland
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Ul. Joliot-Curie 14A, 50-383, Wrocław, Poland
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Wiegand T, Cadalbert R, Gardiennet C, Timmins J, Terradot L, Böckmann A, Meier BH. Beobachtung von ssDNA-Bindung an die DnaB-Helikase von Helicobacter pylori
mittels Festkörper-NMR-Spektroskopie. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201607295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry; UMR 5086 CNRS; Université de Lyon; 7 passage du Vercors 69367 Lyon Frankreich
- CRM2, UMR 7036 CNRS/; Université de Lorraine; Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, BP 70239; Boulevard des Aiguillettes 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Frankreich
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes; CEA, CNRS; 38044 Grenoble Frankreich
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry; UMR 5086 CNRS; Université de Lyon; 7 passage du Vercors 69367 Lyon Frankreich
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry; UMR 5086 CNRS; Université de Lyon; 7 passage du Vercors 69367 Lyon Frankreich
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Wiegand T, Cadalbert R, Gardiennet C, Timmins J, Terradot L, Böckmann A, Meier BH. Monitoring ssDNA Binding to the DnaB Helicase from Helicobacter pylori by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 55:14164-14168. [PMID: 27709753 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201607295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2016] [Revised: 08/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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DnaB helicases are bacterial, ATP-driven enzymes that unwind double-stranded DNA during DNA replication. Herein, we study the sequential binding of the "non-hydrolysable" ATP analogue AMP-PNP and of single-stranded (ss) DNA to the dodecameric DnaB helicase from Helicobacter pylori using solid-state NMR. Phosphorus cross-polarization experiments monitor the binding of AMP-PNP and DNA to the helicase. 13 C chemical-shift perturbations (CSPs) are used to detect conformational changes in the protein upon binding. The helicase switches upon AMP-PNP addition into a conformation apt for ssDNA binding, and AMP-PNP is hydrolyzed and released upon binding of ssDNA. Our study sheds light on the conformational changes which are triggered by the interaction with AMP-PNP and are needed for ssDNA binding of H. pylori DnaB in vitro. They also demonstrate the level of detail solid-state NMR can provide for the characterization of protein-DNA interactions and the interplay with ATP or its analogues.
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- Thomas Wiegand
- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercors, 69367, Lyon, France.,CRM2, UMR 7036 CNRS/, Université de Lorraine, Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, BP 70239, Boulevard des Aiguillettes, 54506, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA,CNRS, F-, 38044, Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercors, 69367, Lyon, France.
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercors, 69367, Lyon, France.
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Wiegand T, Gardiennet C, Cadalbert R, Lacabanne D, Kunert B, Terradot L, Böckmann A, Meier BH. Variability and conservation of structural domains in divide-and-conquer approaches. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2016; 65:79-86. [PMID: 27240588 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-016-0039-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2016] [Accepted: 05/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The use of protein building blocks for the structure determination of multidomain proteins and protein-protein complexes, also known as the "divide and conquer" approach, is an important strategy for obtaining protein structures. Atomic-resolution X-ray or NMR data of the individual domains are combined with lower-resolution electron microscopy maps or X-ray data of the full-length protein or the protein complex. Doing so, it is often assumed that the individual domain structures remain invariant in the context of the superstructure. In this work, we show the potentials and limitations of NMR to validate this approach at the example of the dodecameric DnaB helicase from Helicobacter pylori. We investigate how sequentially assigned spectra, as well as unassigned spectral fingerprints can be used to indicate the conservation of individual domains, and also to highlight conformational differences.
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- Thomas Wiegand
- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercors, 69367, Lyon, France
- CRM2, UMR 7036, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, 54506, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercors, 69367, Lyon, France
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercors, 69367, Lyon, France
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercors, 69367, Lyon, France.
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- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercors, 69367, Lyon, France.
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
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The initiation of chromosomal DNA replication starts at a replication origin, which in bacteria is a discrete locus that contains DNA sequence motifs recognized by an initiator protein whose role is to assemble the replication fork machinery at this site. In bacteria with a single chromosome, DnaA is the initiator and is highly conserved in all bacteria. As an adenine nucleotide binding protein, DnaA bound to ATP is active in the assembly of a DnaA oligomer onto these sites. Other proteins modulate DnaA oligomerization via their interaction with the N-terminal region of DnaA. Following the DnaA-dependent unwinding of an AT-rich region within the replication origin, DnaA then mediates the binding of DnaB, the replicative DNA helicase, in a complex with DnaC to form an intermediate named the prepriming complex. In the formation of this intermediate, the helicase is loaded onto the unwound region within the replication origin. As DnaC bound to DnaB inhibits its activity as a DNA helicase, DnaC must dissociate to activate DnaB. Apparently, the interaction of DnaB with primase (DnaG) and primer formation leads to the release of DnaC from DnaB, which is coordinated with or followed by translocation of DnaB to the junction of the replication fork. There, DnaB is able to coordinate its activity as a DNA helicase with the cellular replicase, DNA polymerase III holoenzyme, which uses the primers made by primase for leading strand DNA synthesis.
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- S Chodavarapu
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States.
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Wiegand T, Gardiennet C, Ravotti F, Bazin A, Kunert B, Lacabanne D, Cadalbert R, Güntert P, Terradot L, Böckmann A, Meier BH. Solid-state NMR sequential assignments of the N-terminal domain of HpDnaB helicase. BIOMOLECULAR NMR ASSIGNMENTS 2016; 10:13-23. [PMID: 26280528 DOI: 10.1007/s12104-015-9629-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2015] [Accepted: 08/11/2015] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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We present solid-state NMR assignments of the N-terminal domain of the DnaB helicase from Helicobacter pylori (153 residues) in its microcrystalline form. We use a sequential resonance assignment strategy based on three-dimensional NMR experiments. The resonance assignments obtained are compared with automated resonance assignments computed with the ssFLYA algorithm. An analysis of the (13)C secondary chemical shifts determines the position of the secondary structure elements in this α-helical protein.
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- Thomas Wiegand
- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institut de Biologie et Chemie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercor, 69007, Lyon, France
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institut de Biologie et Chemie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercor, 69007, Lyon, France
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- Institut de Biologie et Chemie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercor, 69007, Lyon, France
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- Institut de Biologie et Chemie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercor, 69007, Lyon, France
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
- Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institut de Biologie et Chemie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercor, 69007, Lyon, France.
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- Institut de Biologie et Chemie des Protéines, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon, 7 passage du Vercor, 69007, Lyon, France.
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Verma V, Kumar A, Nitharwal RG, Alam J, Mukhopadhyay AK, Dasgupta S, Dhar SK. 'Modulation of the enzymatic activities of replicative helicase (DnaB) by interaction with Hp0897: a possible mechanism for helicase loading in Helicobacter pylori'. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:3288-303. [PMID: 27001508 PMCID: PMC4838378 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2014] [Accepted: 03/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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DNA replication in Helicobacter pylori is initiated from a unique site (oriC) on its chromosome where several proteins assemble to form a functional replisome. The assembly of H. pylori replication machinery is similar to that of the model gram negative bacterium Escherichia coli except for the absence of DnaC needed to recruit the hexameric DnaB helicase at the replisome assembly site. In the absence of an obvious DnaC homologue in H. pylori, the question arises as to whether HpDnaB helicase is loaded at the Hp-replication origin by itself or is assisted by other unidentified protein(s). A high-throughput yeast two-hybrid study has revealed two proteins of unknown functions (Hp0897 and Hp0340) that interact with HpDnaB. Here we demonstrate that Hp0897 interacts with HpDnaB helicase in vitro as well as in vivo. Furthermore, the interaction stimulates the DNA binding activity of HpDnaB and modulates its adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis and helicase activities significantly. Prior complex formation of Hp0897 and HpDnaB enhances the binding/loading of DnaB onto DNA. Hp0897, along with HpDnaB, colocalizes with replication complex at initiation but does not move with the replisome during elongation. Together, these results suggest a possible role of Hp0897 in loading of HpDnaB at oriC.
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- Vijay Verma
- Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India
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- Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India
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- Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Box 596, Uppsala-75124, Sweden
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- National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata-700010, India
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Box 596, Uppsala-75124, Sweden
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- Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India
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Gardiennet C, Wiegand T, Bazin A, Cadalbert R, Kunert B, Lacabanne D, Gutsche I, Terradot L, Meier BH, Böckmann A. Solid-state NMR chemical-shift perturbations indicate domain reorientation of the DnaG primase in the primosome of Helicobacter pylori. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2016; 64:189-95. [PMID: 26961129 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-016-0018-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2015] [Accepted: 01/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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We here investigate the interactions between the DnaB helicase and the C-terminal domain of the corresponding DnaG primase of Helicobacter pylori using solid-state NMR. The difficult crystallization of this 387 kDa complex, where the two proteins interact in a six to three ratio, is circumvented by simple co-sedimentation of the two proteins directly into the MAS-NMR rotor. While the amount of information that can be extracted from such a large protein is still limited, we can assign a number of amino-acid residues experiencing significant chemical-shift perturbations upon helicase-primase complex formation. The location of these residues is used as a guide to model the interaction interface between the two proteins in the complex. Chemical-shift perturbations also reveal changes at the interaction interfaces of the hexameric HpDnaB assembly on HpDnaG binding. A structural model of the complex that explains the experimental findings is obtained.
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- Carole Gardiennet
- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon 1, 7 passage du Vercors, 69007, Lyon, France
- CNRS, CRM2, UMR 7036, Université de Lorraine, 54506, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon 1, 7 passage du Vercors, 69007, Lyon, France
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon 1, 7 passage du Vercors, 69007, Lyon, France
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon 1, 7 passage du Vercors, 69007, Lyon, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), CNRS, IBS; CEA, IBS, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38044, Grenoble, France
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon 1, 7 passage du Vercors, 69007, Lyon, France.
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- Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Labex Ecofect, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université de Lyon 1, 7 passage du Vercors, 69007, Lyon, France.
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The development and application of a highly versatile suite of tools for mycobacterial genetics, coupled with widespread use of "omics" approaches to elucidate the structure, function, and regulation of mycobacterial proteins, has led to spectacular advances in our understanding of the metabolism and physiology of mycobacteria. In this article, we provide an update on nucleotide metabolism and DNA replication in mycobacteria, highlighting key findings from the past 10 to 15 years. In the first section, we focus on nucleotide metabolism, ranging from the biosynthesis, salvage, and interconversion of purine and pyrimidine ribonucleotides to the formation of deoxyribonucleotides. The second part of the article is devoted to DNA replication, with a focus on replication initiation and elongation, as well as DNA unwinding. We provide an overview of replication fidelity and mutation rates in mycobacteria and summarize evidence suggesting that DNA replication occurs during states of low metabolic activity, and conclude by suggesting directions for future research to address key outstanding questions. Although this article focuses primarily on observations from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, it is interspersed, where appropriate, with insights from, and comparisons with, other mycobacterial species as well as better characterized bacterial models such as Escherichia coli. Finally, a common theme underlying almost all studies of mycobacterial metabolism is the potential to identify and validate functions or pathways that can be exploited for tuberculosis drug discovery. In this context, we have specifically highlighted those processes in mycobacterial DNA replication that might satisfy this critical requirement.
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Bazin A, Cherrier MV, Gutsche I, Timmins J, Terradot L. Structure and primase-mediated activation of a bacterial dodecameric replicative helicase. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:8564-76. [PMID: 26264665 PMCID: PMC4787810 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2015] [Accepted: 07/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Replicative helicases are essential ATPases that unwind DNA to initiate chromosomal replication. While bacterial replicative DnaB helicases are hexameric, Helicobacter pylori DnaB (HpDnaB) was found to form double hexamers, similar to some archaeal and eukaryotic replicative helicases. Here we present a structural and functional analysis of HpDnaB protein during primosome formation. The crystal structure of the HpDnaB at 6.7 Å resolution reveals a dodecameric organization consisting of two hexamers assembled via their N-terminal rings in a stack-twisted mode. Using fluorescence anisotropy we show that HpDnaB dodecamer interacts with single-stranded DNA in the presence of ATP but has a low DNA unwinding activity. Multi-angle light scattering and small angle X-ray scattering demonstrate that interaction with the DnaG primase helicase-binding domain dissociates the helicase dodecamer into single ringed primosomes. Functional assays on the proteins and associated complexes indicate that these single ringed primosomes are the most active form of the helicase for ATP hydrolysis, DNA binding and unwinding. These findings shed light onto an activation mechanism of HpDnaB by the primase that might be relevant in other bacteria and possibly other organisms exploiting dodecameric helicases for DNA replication.
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- Alexandre Bazin
- CNRS, UMR 5086 Bases Moléculaires et Structurales de Systèmes Infectieux, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, 7 Passage du Vercors, F-69367, Lyon, France. Université de Lyon, F-69622, Lyon, France; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
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- CNRS, UMR 5086 Bases Moléculaires et Structurales de Systèmes Infectieux, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, 7 Passage du Vercors, F-69367, Lyon, France. Université de Lyon, F-69622, Lyon, France; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
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- Unit of Virus Host-Cell Interactions, UJF-EMBL-CNRS, UMI3265, F-38044 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Biologie Structurale, F-38044 Grenoble, France CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale, F-38044 Grenoble, France CEA, Institut de Biologie Structurale, F-38044 Grenoble, France
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- CNRS, UMR 5086 Bases Moléculaires et Structurales de Systèmes Infectieux, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, 7 Passage du Vercors, F-69367, Lyon, France. Université de Lyon, F-69622, Lyon, France; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
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DNA replication is essential for all life forms. Although the process is fundamentally conserved in the three domains of life, bioinformatic, biochemical, structural, and genetic studies have demonstrated that the process and the proteins involved in archaeal DNA replication are more similar to those in eukaryal DNA replication than in bacterial DNA replication, but have some archaeal-specific features. The archaeal replication system, however, is not monolithic, and there are some differences in the replication process between different species. In this review, the current knowledge of the mechanisms governing DNA replication in Archaea is summarized. The general features of the replication process as well as some of the differences are discussed.
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- Lori M Kelman
- Program in Biotechnology, Montgomery College, Germantown, Maryland 20876;
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Beattie TR, Reyes-Lamothe R. A Replisome's journey through the bacterial chromosome. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:562. [PMID: 26097470 PMCID: PMC4456610 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 05/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Genome duplication requires the coordinated activity of a multi-component machine, the replisome. In contrast to the background of metabolic diversity across the bacterial domain, the composition and architecture of the bacterial replisome seem to have suffered few changes during evolution. This immutability underlines the replisome’s efficiency in copying the genome. It also highlights the success of various strategies inherent to the replisome for responding to stress and avoiding problems during critical stages of DNA synthesis. Here we summarize current understanding of bacterial replisome architecture and highlight the known variations in different bacterial taxa. We then look at the mechanisms in place to ensure that the bacterial replisome is assembled appropriately on DNA, kept together during elongation, and disassembled upon termination. We put forward the idea that the architecture of the replisome may be more flexible that previously thought and speculate on elements of the replisome that maintain its stability to ensure a safe journey from origin to terminus.
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Donczew R, Makowski Ł, Jaworski P, Bezulska M, Nowaczyk M, Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J, Zawilak-Pawlik A. The atypical response regulator HP1021 controls formation of the Helicobacter pylori replication initiation complex. Mol Microbiol 2014; 95:297-312. [PMID: 25402746 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/12/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The replication of a bacterial chromosome is initiated by the DnaA protein, which binds to the specific chromosomal region oriC and unwinds duplex DNA within the DNA-unwinding element (DUE). The initiation is tightly regulated by many factors, which control either DnaA or oriC activity and ensure that the chromosome is duplicated only when the conditions favor the survival of daughter cells. The factors controlling oriC activity often belong to the protein families of two-component systems. Here, we found that Helicobacter pylori oriC activity is controlled by HP1021, a member of the atypical response regulator family. HP1021 protein specifically interacts with H. pylori oriC at HP1021 boxes (5'-TGTT[TA]C[TA]-3'), which overlap with three modules important for oriC function: DnaA boxes, the hypersensitivity (hs) region and the DUE. Consequently, HP1021 binding to oriC precludes DnaA-oriC interactions and inhibits DNA unwinding at the DUE. Thus, HP1021 constitutes a negative regulator of the H. pylori orisome assembly in vitro. Furthermore, HP1021 boxes were found upstream of at least 70 genes, including those encoding CagA and Fur proteins. We postulate that HP1021 might coordinate chromosome replication, and thus bacterial growth, with other cellular processes and conditions in the human stomach.
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- Rafał Donczew
- Department of Microbiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Weigla 12, Wrocław, 53-114, Poland
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Krueger S, Shin JH, Curtis JE, Rubinson KA, Kelman Z. The solution structure of full-length dodecameric MCM by SANS and molecular modeling. Proteins 2014; 82:2364-74. [DOI: 10.1002/prot.24598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2014] [Revised: 04/24/2014] [Accepted: 04/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Susan Krueger
- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Gaithersburg Maryland 20899
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- Division of Applied Biology and Chemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Kyungpook National University; Daegu Republic of Korea
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Gaithersburg Maryland 20899
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Gaithersburg Maryland 20899
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Wright State University; Dayton Ohio 45435
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- Biomolecular Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Gaithersburg Maryland 20899
- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research; Rockville Maryland 20850
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O'Shea VL, Berger JM. Loading strategies of ring-shaped nucleic acid translocases and helicases. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2014; 25:16-24. [PMID: 24878340 PMCID: PMC4040187 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2013.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2013] [Revised: 11/18/2013] [Accepted: 11/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Ring-shaped nucleic acid translocases and helicases catalyze the directed and processive movement of nucleic acid strands to support essential transactions such as replication, transcription, and chromosome partitioning. Assembled typically as hexamers, ring helicase/translocase systems use coordinated cycles of nucleoside triphosphate (NTP) hydrolysis to translocate extended DNA or RNA substrates through a central pore. Ring formation presents a topological challenge to the engagement of substrate oligonucleotides, and is frequently overcome by distinct loading strategies for shepherding specific motors onto their respective substrates. Recent structural studies that capture different loading intermediates have begun to reveal how different helicase/translocase rings either assemble around substrates or crack open to allow DNA or RNA strand entry, and how dedicated chaperones facilitate these events in some instances. Both prevailing mechanistic models and remaining knowledge gaps are discussed.
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- Valerie L O'Shea
- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA.
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Crystal structure and mode of helicase binding of the C-terminal domain of primase from Helicobacter pylori. J Bacteriol 2013; 195:2826-38. [PMID: 23585534 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00091-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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To better understand the poor conservation of the helicase binding domain of primases (DnaGs) among the eubacteria, we determined the crystal structure of the Helicobacter pylori DnaG C-terminal domain (HpDnaG-CTD) at 1.78 Å. The structure has a globular subdomain connected to a helical hairpin. Structural comparison has revealed that globular subdomains, despite the variation in number of helices, have broadly similar arrangements across the species, whereas helical hairpins show different orientations. Further, to study the helicase-primase interaction in H. pylori, a complex was modeled using the HpDnaG-CTD and HpDnaB-NTD (helicase) crystal structures using the Bacillus stearothermophilus BstDnaB-BstDnaG-CTD (helicase-primase) complex structure as a template. By using this model, a nonconserved critical residue Phe534 on helicase binding interface of DnaG-CTD was identified. Mutation guided by molecular dynamics, biophysical, and biochemical studies validated our model. We further concluded that species-specific helicase-primase interactions are influenced by electrostatic surface potentials apart from the critical hydrophobic surface residues.
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Li Y, Araki H. Loading and activation of DNA replicative helicases: the key step of initiation of DNA replication. Genes Cells 2013; 18:266-77. [PMID: 23461534 PMCID: PMC3657122 DOI: 10.1111/gtc.12040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2012] [Accepted: 01/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Evolution has led to diversification of all living organisms from a common ancestor. Consequently, all living organisms use a common method to duplicate their genetic information and thus pass on their inherited traits to their offspring. To duplicate chromosomal DNA, double-stranded DNA must first be unwound by helicase, which is loaded to replication origins and activated during the DNA replication initiation step. In this review, we discuss the common features of, and differences in, replicative helicases between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
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- Yan Li
- Division of Microbial Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Yata 1111, Mishima City, Shizuoka, 411-8540, Japan
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Medagli B, Onesti S. Structure and mechanism of hexameric helicases. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2013; 767:75-95. [PMID: 23161007 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5037-5_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Hexameric helicases are responsible for many biological processes, ranging from DNA replication in various life domains to DNA repair, transcriptional regulation and RNA metabolism, and encompass superfamilies 3-6 (SF3-6).To harness the chemical energy from ATP hydrolysis for mechanical work, hexameric helicases have a conserved core engine, called ASCE, that belongs to a subdivision of the P-loop NTPases. Some of the ring helicases (SF4 and SF5) use a variant of ASCE known as RecA-like, while some (SF3 and SF6) use another variant known as AAA+ fold. The NTP-binding sites are located at the interface between monomers and include amino-acid residues coming from neighbouring subunits, providing a mean for small structural changes within the ATP-binding site to be amplified into large inter-subunit movement.The ring structure has a central channel which encircles the nucleic acid. The topological link between the protein and the nucleic acid substrate increases the stability and processivity of the enzyme. This is probably the reason why within cellular systems the critical step of unwinding dsDNA ahead of the replication fork seems to be almost invariably carried out by a toroidal helicase, whether in bacteria, archaea or eukaryotes, as well as in some viruses.Over the last few years, a large number of biochemical, biophysical and structural data have thrown new light onto the architecture and function of these remarkable machines. Although the evidence is still limited to a couple of systems, biochemical and structural results suggest that motors based on RecA and AAA+ folds have converged on similar mechanisms to couple ATP-driven conformational changes to movement along nucleic acids.
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- Barbara Medagli
- Structural Biology, Sincrotrone Trieste (Elettra), Area Science Pk, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy,
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The initiation of DNA replication represents a committing step to cell proliferation. Appropriate replication onset depends on multiprotein complexes that help properly distinguish origin regions, generate nascent replication bubbles, and promote replisome formation. This review describes initiation systems employed by bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, with a focus on comparing and contrasting molecular mechanisms among organisms. Although commonalities can be found in the functional domains and strategies used to carry out and regulate initiation, many key participants have markedly different activities and appear to have evolved convergently. Despite significant advances in the field, major questions still persist in understanding how initiation programs are executed at the molecular level.
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- Alessandro Costa
- Clare Hall Laboratories, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, Hertfordshire, EN6 3LD United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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Gardiennet C, Schütz AK, Hunkeler A, Kunert B, Terradot L, Böckmann A, Meier BH. Hochaufgelöste Festkörper-NMR-Spektren einer sedimentierten, nichtkristallinen dodekameren Helicase (59 kDa). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201200779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Gardiennet C, Schütz AK, Hunkeler A, Kunert B, Terradot L, Böckmann A, Meier BH. A Sedimented Sample of a 59 kDa Dodecameric Helicase Yields High-Resolution Solid-State NMR Spectra. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012; 51:7855-8. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201200779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2012] [Revised: 04/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Threading of DNA through the central channel of a replicative ring helicase is known as helicase loading, and is a pivotal event during replication initiation at replication origins. Once loaded, the helicase recruits the primase through a direct protein-protein interaction to complete the initial 'priming step' of DNA replication. Subsequent assembly of the polymerases and processivity factors completes the structure of the replisome. Two replisomes are assembled, one on each strand, and move in opposite directions to replicate the parental DNA during the 'elongation step' of DNA replication. Replicative helicases are the motor engines of replisomes powered by the conversion of chemical energy to mechanical energy through ATP binding and hydrolysis. Bidirectional loading of two ring helicases at a replication origin is achieved by strictly regulated and intricately choreographed mechanisms, often through the action of replication initiation and helicase-loader proteins. Current structural and biochemical data reveal a wide range of different helicase-loading mechanisms. Here we review advances in this area and discuss their implications.
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- Panos Soultanas
- School of Chemistry, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
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