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Ueno M. Exploring Genetic Interactions with Telomere Protection Gene pot1 in Fission Yeast. Biomolecules 2023; 13:biom13020370. [PMID: 36830739 PMCID: PMC9953254 DOI: 10.3390/biom13020370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2023] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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The regulation of telomere length has a significant impact on cancer risk and aging in humans. Circular chromosomes are found in humans and are often unstable during mitosis, resulting in genome instability. Some types of cancer have a high frequency of a circular chromosome. Fission yeast is a good model for studying the formation and stability of circular chromosomes as deletion of pot1 (encoding a telomere protection protein) results in rapid telomere degradation and chromosome fusion. Pot1 binds to single-stranded telomere DNA and is conserved from fission yeast to humans. Loss of pot1 leads to viable strains in which all three fission yeast chromosomes become circular. In this review, I will introduce pot1 genetic interactions as these inform on processes such as the degradation of uncapped telomeres, chromosome fusion, and maintenance of circular chromosomes. Therefore, exploring genes that genetically interact with pot1 contributes to finding new genes and/or new functions of genes related to the maintenance of telomeres and/or circular chromosomes.
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- Masaru Ueno
- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan; ; Tel.: +81-82-424-7768
- Hiroshima Research Center for Healthy Aging (HiHA), Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan
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Japaridze A, van Wee R, Gogou C, Kerssemakers JWJ, van den Berg DF, Dekker C. MukBEF-dependent chromosomal organization in widened Escherichia coli. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1107093. [PMID: 36937278 PMCID: PMC10020239 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1107093] [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: 11/24/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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The bacterial chromosome is spatially organized through protein-mediated compaction, supercoiling, and cell-boundary confinement. Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) complexes are a major class of chromosome-organizing proteins present throughout all domains of life. Here, we study the role of the Escherichia coli SMC complex MukBEF in chromosome architecture and segregation. Using quantitative live-cell imaging of shape-manipulated cells, we show that MukBEF is crucial to preserve the toroidal topology of the Escherichia coli chromosome and that it is non-uniformly distributed along the chromosome: it prefers locations toward the origin and away from the terminus of replication, and it is unevenly distributed over the origin of replication along the two chromosome arms. Using an ATP hydrolysis-deficient MukB mutant, we confirm that MukBEF translocation along the chromosome is ATP-dependent, in contrast to its loading onto DNA. MukBEF and MatP are furthermore found to be essential for sister chromosome decatenation. We propose a model that explains how MukBEF, MatP, and their interacting partners organize the chromosome and contribute to sister segregation. The combination of bacterial cell-shape modification and quantitative fluorescence microscopy paves way to investigating chromosome-organization factors in vivo.
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Besprozvannaya M, Burton BM. Do the same traffic rules apply? Directional chromosome segregation by SpoIIIE and FtsK. Mol Microbiol 2014; 93:599-608. [PMID: 25040776 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Over a decade of studies have tackled the question of how FtsK/SpoIIIE translocases establish and maintain directional DNA translocation during chromosome segregation in bacteria. FtsK/SpoIIIE translocases move DNA in a highly processive, directional manner, where directionality is facilitated by sequences on the substrate DNA molecules that are being transported. In recent years, structural, biochemical, single-molecule and high-resolution microscopic studies have provided new insight into the mechanistic details of directional DNA segregation. Out of this body of work, a series of models have emerged and, ultimately, yielded two seemingly opposing models: the loading model and the target search model. We review these recent mechanistic insights into directional DNA movement and discuss the data that may serve to unite these suggested models, as well as propose future directions that may ultimately solve the debate.
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- Marina Besprozvannaya
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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Fission yeast RecQ helicase Rqh1 is required for the maintenance of circular chromosomes. Mol Cell Biol 2013; 33:1175-87. [PMID: 23297345 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01713-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Protection of telomeres protein 1 (Pot1) binds to single-stranded telomere overhangs and protects chromosome ends. RecQ helicases regulate homologous recombination at multiple stages, including resection, strand displacement, and resolution. Fission yeast pot1 and RecQ helicase rqh1 double mutants are synthetically lethal, but the mechanism is not fully understood. Here, we show that the synthetic lethality of pot1Δ rqh1Δ double mutants is due to inappropriate homologous recombination, as it is suppressed by the deletion of rad51(+). The expression of Rad51 in the pot1Δ rqh1Δ rad51Δ triple mutant, which has circular chromosomes, is lethal. Reduction of the expression of Rqh1 in a pot1 disruptant with circular chromosomes caused chromosome missegregation, and this defect was partially suppressed by the deletion of rad51(+). Taken together, our results suggest that Rqh1 is required for the maintenance of circular chromosomes when homologous recombination is active. Crossovers between circular monomeric chromosomes generate dimers that cannot segregate properly in Escherichia coli. We propose that Rqh1 inhibits crossovers between circular monomeric chromosomes to suppress the generation of circular dimers.
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An antimicrobial peptide that targets DNA repair intermediates in vitro inhibits Salmonella growth within murine macrophages. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2010; 54:1888-99. [PMID: 20176906 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01610-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The hexapeptide WRWYCR was previously identified on the basis of its ability to inhibit bacteriophage lambda integrase-mediated recombination by trapping and preventing resolution of the Holliday junction intermediate. This peptide inhibits several unrelated DNA repair enzymes that bind to and process Holliday junctions and branched DNA substrates. WRWYCR and its d stereoisomer, wrwycr, are bactericidal against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, causing the accumulation of DNA breaks, chromosome segregation defects, and the filamentation of cells. DNA repair is a novel target of antibiotics. In the present study, we examined the ability of the peptides to inhibit the growth of Salmonella in mammalian cells. J774A.1 macrophage-like cells and murine peritoneal macrophages were infected with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and grown in the presence or absence of peptide. We found that peptide wrwycr reduced the number of Salmonella cells recovered after 24 h growth in J774A.1 cells by 100 to 1,000 times, depending on the multiplicity of infection. The peptide also inhibited Salmonella growth in peritoneal macrophages, and although higher doses were required, these were not toxic to the host cells. The apparent lower level of potency of the peptide paralleled the lower level of replication of Salmonella and the lower level of permeation of the peptide in the peritoneal macrophages than in the J774.1 cells. Treatment with peptide wrwycr elicited the SOS response in a significant fraction of the intracellular bacteria, as would be expected if the mechanism of bacterial killing was the same in pure culture and in host cells. These results represent a proof of principle of the antimicrobial activities of compounds that target DNA repair.
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The genus Mycobacterium, which is a member of the high G+C group of Gram-positive bacteria, includes important pathogens, such as M. tuberculosis and M. leprae. A recent publication in PNAS reported that M. marinum and M. bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin produce a type of spore known as an endospore, which had been observed only in the low G+C group of Gram-positive bacteria. Evidence was presented that the spores were similar to endospores in ultrastructure, in heat resistance and in the presence of dipicolinic acid. Here, we report that the genomes of Mycobacterium species and those of other high G+C Gram-positive bacteria lack orthologs of many, if not all, highly conserved genes diagnostic of endospore formation in the genomes of low G+C Gram-positive bacteria. We also failed to detect the presence of endospores by light microscopy or by testing for heat-resistant colony-forming units in aged cultures of M. marinum. Finally, we failed to recover heat-resistant colony-forming units from frogs chronically infected with M. marinum. We conclude that it is unlikely that Mycobacterium is capable of endospore formation.
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Kobryn K, Briffotaux J, Karpov V. Holliday junction formation by theBorrelia burgdorferitelomere resolvase, ResT: implications for the origin of genome linearity. Mol Microbiol 2009; 71:1117-30. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06584.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Allemand JF, Maier B. Bacterial translocation motors investigated by single molecule techniques. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2009; 33:593-610. [PMID: 19243443 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2009.00166.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Translocation of DNA and protein fibers through narrow constrictions is a ubiquitous and crucial activity of bacterial cells. Bacteria use specialized machines to support macromolecular movement. A very important step toward a mechanistic understanding of these translocation machines is the characterization of their physical properties at the single molecule level. Recently, four bacterial transport processes have been characterized by nanomanipulation at the single molecule level, DNA translocation by FtsK and SpoIIIE, DNA import during transformation, and the related process of a type IV pilus retraction. With all four processes, the translocation rates, processivity, and stalling forces were remarkably high as compared with single molecule experiments with other molecular motors. Although substrates of all four processes proceed along a preferential direction of translocation, directionality has been shown to be controlled by distinct mechanisms.
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Cattolico RA, Jacobs MA, Zhou Y, Chang J, Duplessis M, Lybrand T, McKay J, Ong HC, Sims E, Rocap G. Chloroplast genome sequencing analysis of Heterosigma akashiwo CCMP452 (West Atlantic) and NIES293 (West Pacific) strains. BMC Genomics 2008; 9:211. [PMID: 18462506 PMCID: PMC2410131 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2007] [Accepted: 05/08/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Heterokont algae form a monophyletic group within the stramenopile branch of the tree of life. These organisms display wide morphological diversity, ranging from minute unicells to massive, bladed forms. Surprisingly, chloroplast genome sequences are available only for diatoms, representing two (Coscinodiscophyceae and Bacillariophyceae) of approximately 18 classes of algae that comprise this taxonomic cluster. A universal challenge to chloroplast genome sequencing studies is the retrieval of highly purified DNA in quantities sufficient for analytical processing. To circumvent this problem, we have developed a simplified method for sequencing chloroplast genomes, using fosmids selected from a total cellular DNA library. The technique has been used to sequence chloroplast DNA of two Heterosigma akashiwo strains. This raphidophyte has served as a model system for studies of stramenopile chloroplast biogenesis and evolution. RESULTS H. akashiwo strain CCMP452 (West Atlantic) chloroplast DNA is 160,149 bp in size with a 21,822-bp inverted repeat, whereas NIES293 (West Pacific) chloroplast DNA is 159,370 bp in size and has an inverted repeat of 21,665 bp. The fosmid cloning technique reveals that both strains contain an isomeric chloroplast DNA population resulting from an inversion of their single copy domains. Both strains contain multiple small inverted and tandem repeats, non-randomly distributed within the genomes. Although both CCMP452 and NIES293 chloroplast DNAs contains 197 genes, multiple nucleotide polymorphisms are present in both coding and intergenic regions. Several protein-coding genes contain large, in-frame inserts relative to orthologous genes in other plastids. These inserts are maintained in mRNA products. Two genes of interest in H. akashiwo, not previously reported in any chloroplast genome, include tyrC, a tyrosine recombinase, which we hypothesize may be a result of a lateral gene transfer event, and an unidentified 456 amino acid protein, which we hypothesize serves as a G-protein-coupled receptor. The H. akashiwo chloroplast genomes share little synteny with other algal chloroplast genomes sequenced to date. CONCLUSION The fosmid cloning technique eliminates chloroplast isolation, does not require chloroplast DNA purification, and reduces sequencing processing time. Application of this method has provided new insights into chloroplast genome architecture, gene content and evolution within the stramenopile cluster.
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MESH Headings
- Algal Proteins/genetics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Atlantic Ocean
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA, Algal/genetics
- DNA, Algal/isolation & purification
- DNA, Chloroplast/genetics
- DNA, Chloroplast/isolation & purification
- Furans
- Genome, Chloroplast
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Pacific Ocean
- Phaeophyceae/classification
- Phaeophyceae/genetics
- Phaeophyceae/isolation & purification
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Recombinases/genetics
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sequence Analysis, DNA/methods
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Species Specificity
- Thiophenes
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Affiliation(s)
- Rose Ann Cattolico
- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355325, Seattle, WA 98195-5325, USA
- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195-7940, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 352145, Seattle WA 98195-2145, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 352145, Seattle WA 98195-2145, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 352145, Seattle WA 98195-2145, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355325, Seattle, WA 98195-5325, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Center for Structural Biology, 5142 Biosci/MRB III, Nashville, TN 37232-8725, USA
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- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195-7940, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355325, Seattle, WA 98195-5325, USA
- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195-7940, USA
- Division of Science, Lyon College, 2300 Highland Rd, Batesville, AR 72501-3629, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 352145, Seattle WA 98195-2145, USA
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- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195-7940, USA
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Gunderson CW, Segall AM. DNA repair, a novel antibacterial target: Holliday junction-trapping peptides induce DNA damage and chromosome segregation defects. Mol Microbiol 2006; 59:1129-48. [PMID: 16430689 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.05009.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Holliday junction intermediates arise in several central pathways of DNA repair, replication fork restart, and site-specific recombination catalysed by tyrosine recombinases. Previously identified hexapeptide inhibitors of phage lambda integrase-mediated recombination block the resolution of Holliday junction intermediates in vitro and thereby inhibit recombination, but have no DNA cleavage activity themselves. The most potent peptides are specific for the branched DNA structure itself, as opposed to the integrase complex. Based on this activity, the peptides inhibit several unrelated Holliday junction-processing enzymes in vitro, including the RecG helicase and RuvABC junction resolvase complex. We have found that some of these hexapeptides are potent bactericidal antimicrobials, effective against both Gm+ and Gm- bacteria. Using epifluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry, we have characterized extensively the physiology of bacterial cells treated with these peptides. The hexapeptides cause DNA segregation abnormalities, filamentation and DNA damage. Damage caused by the peptides induces the SOS response, and is synergistic with damage caused by UV and mitomycin C. Our results are consistent with the model that the hexapeptides affect DNA targets that arise during recombination-dependent repair. We propose that the peptides trap intermediates in the repair of collapsed replication forks, preventing repair and resulting in bacterial death. Inhibition of DNA repair constitutes a novel target of antibiotic therapy. The peptides affect targets that arise in multiple pathways, and as expected, are quite resistant to the development of spontaneous antibiotic resistance.
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- Carl W Gunderson
- Center for Microbial Sciences and Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-4614, USA
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She Q, Brügger K, Chen L. Archaeal integrative genetic elements and their impact on genome evolution. Res Microbiol 2002; 153:325-32. [PMID: 12234006 DOI: 10.1016/s0923-2508(02)01331-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Integrases encoded in archaeal genomes can be classified into seven families on the basis of their sequences. They constitute a super-family of tyrosine DNA recombinases together with a number of bacterial integrases and they are likely to be responsible for the formation of integrated elements in archaeal chromosomes. An integrated element is defined as possessing an integrase, a block of foreign genes, and a direct repeat at the two ends with one repeat unit overlapping a tRNA gene. There are two types of archaeal integrated elements, the SSV viral type, including those that carry the partitioned integrase gene, intN and intC, and the pNOB8 type, including those with a tRNA gene overlapping the attL site 5' prior to an integrase gene. Both known and unknown genes are present in these integrated elements and their encoded proteins may have facilitated the adaptation of archaea during evolution.
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- Qunxin She
- Microbial Genome Centre, Institute of Molecular Biology, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) encodes a mere 13 polypeptides, all with well-defined cellular functions in mitochondrial energy metabolism. It was first sequenced over two decades ago, yet our understanding of the wider physiological role of mtDNA is surprisingly sketchy. Partly, this reflects the fact that the mitochondrial gene products are essential for life; that is, most mtDNA mutations are expected to be lethal. The technical difficulty of engineering mtDNA mutations has been a major handicap in furthering our understanding of the mitochondrial genetic system. Recent developments now offer some possibilities for the genetic manipulation of mtDNA and for elucidating its contribution to human development, physiology and disease.
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- H T Jacobs
- Institute of Medical Technology and Tampere University Hospital, FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
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DNA transport is important in various biological contexts--particularly chromosome segregation and intercellular gene transfer. Recently, progress has been made in understanding the function of a family of bacterial proteins involved in DNA transfer, and we focus here on one of the best-understood members, SpoIIIE. Studies of SpoIIIE-like proteins show that they might couple DNA transport to processes such as cell division, conjugation (mating) and the resolution of chromosome dimers.
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- J Errington
- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK.
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Current Awareness on Comparative and Functional Genomics. Comp Funct Genomics 2001. [PMCID: PMC2447210 DOI: 10.1002/cfg.57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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