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Lee H, You J, Lee H, Kim W, Jang K, Park J, Na S. Enhanced selective discrimination of point-mutated viral RNA through false amplification regulatory direct insertion in rolling circle amplification. Biosens Bioelectron 2024; 252:116145. [PMID: 38412685 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2024.116145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Revised: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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Coronaviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses with high mutation rates. Although a diagnostic method for coronaviruses has been developed, variants appear rapidly. Low test accuracy owing to single-point mutations is one of the main factors in the failure to prevent the early spread of coronavirus infection. Although reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction can detect coronavirus infection, it cannot exclude the possibility of false positives, and an additional multiplexing kit is needed to discriminate single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variants. Therefore, in this study, we introduced a new nucleic acid amplification method to determine whether an infected person has a SNP mutation using a lateral flow assay (LFA) as a point-of-care test. Unlike traditional DNA amplification methods, direct insertion into rolling circle amplification amplifies the target genes without false amplification. After SNP-selective nucleic acid amplification, nuclease enzymes are used to make double-stranded DNA fragments that the LFA can detect, where specific mismatched DNA is found and cleaved to show different signals when a SNP-type is present. Therefore, wild- and SNP-type variants can be selectively detected. In this study, the limit of detection was 400 aM for viral RNA, and we successfully identified a dominant SNP variant selectively. Clinical tests were also conducted.
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- Hakbeom Lee
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, 31977, Republic of Korea
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- Asia Pacific Influenza Institute, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Hoseo University, Asan, 31499, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biomechatronics Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), 2066 Seobu-ro, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea.
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Zoli M. Twist-stretch relations in nucleic acids. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL : EBJ 2023; 52:641-650. [PMID: 37357224 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-023-01669-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Revised: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/27/2023]
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Nucleic acids are highly deformable helical molecules constantly stretched, twisted and bent in their biological functioning. Single molecule experiments have shown that double stranded (ds)-RNA and standard ds-DNA have opposite twist-stretch patterns and stretching properties when overwound under a constant applied load. The key structural features of the A-form RNA and B-form DNA helices are here incorporated in a three-dimensional mesoscopic Hamiltonian model which accounts for the radial, bending and twisting fluctuations of the base pairs. Using path integral techniques which sum over the ensemble of the base pair fluctuations, I compute the average helical repeat of the molecules as a function of the load. The obtained twist-stretch relations and stretching properties, for short A- and B-helical fragments, are consistent with the opposite behaviors observed in kilo-base long molecules.
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- Marco Zoli
- School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, 62032, Camerino, Italy.
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A statistical method is developed to estimate the maximum amplitude of the base pair fluctuations in a three dimensional mesoscopic model for nucleic acids. The base pair thermal vibrations around the helix diameter are viewed as a Brownian motion for a particle embedded in a stable helical structure. The probability to return to the initial position is computed, as a function of time, by integrating over the particle paths consistent with the physical properties of the model potential. The zero time condition for the first-passage probability defines the constraint to select the integral cutoff for various macroscopic helical conformations, obtained by tuning the twist, bending, and slide motion between adjacent base pairs along the molecule stack. Applying the method to a short homogeneous chain at room temperature, we obtain meaningful estimates for the maximum fluctuations in the twist conformation with ∼10.5 base pairs per helix turn, typical of double stranded DNA helices. Untwisting the double helix, the base pair fluctuations broaden and the integral cutoff increases. The cutoff is found to increase also in the presence of a sliding motion, which shortens the helix contour length, a situation peculiar of dsRNA molecules.
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- Marco Zoli
- School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
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We have discovered a well-defined extended conformation of double-stranded DNA, which we call Σ-DNA, using laser-tweezers force-spectroscopy experiments. At a transition force corresponding to free energy change ΔG = 1·57 ± 0·12 kcal (mol base pair)-1 60 or 122 base-pair long synthetic GC-rich sequences, when pulled by the 3'-3' strands, undergo a sharp transition to the 1·52 ± 0·04 times longer Σ-DNA. Intriguingly, the same degree of extension is also found in DNA complexes with recombinase proteins, such as bacterial RecA and eukaryotic Rad51. Despite vital importance to all biological organisms for survival, genome maintenance and evolution, the recombination reaction is not yet understood at atomic level. We here propose that the structural distortion represented by Σ-DNA, which is thus physically inherent to the nucleic acid, is related to how recombination proteins mediate recognition of sequence homology and execute strand exchange. Our hypothesis is that a homogeneously stretched DNA undergoes a 'disproportionation' into an inhomogeneous Σ-form consisting of triplets of locally B-like perpendicularly stacked bases. This structure may ensure improved fidelity of base-pair recognition and promote rejection in case of mismatch during homologous recombination reaction. Because a triplet is the length of a gene codon, we speculate that the structural physics of nucleic acids may have biased the evolution of recombinase proteins to exploit triplet base stacks and also the genetic code.
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Zoli M. Twist-stretch profiles of DNA chains. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2017; 29:225101. [PMID: 28394255 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aa6c50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Helical molecules change their twist number under the effect of a mechanical load. We study the twist-stretch relation for a set of short DNA molecules modeled by a mesoscopic Hamiltonian. Finite temperature path integral techniques are applied to generate a large ensemble of possible configurations for the base pairs of the sequence. The model also accounts for the bending and twisting fluctuations between adjacent base pairs along the molecules stack. Simulating a broad range of twisting conformation, we compute the helix structural parameters by averaging over the ensemble of base pairs configurations. The method selects, for any applied force, the average twist angle which minimizes the molecule's free energy. It is found that the chains generally over-twist under an applied stretching and the over-twisting is physically associated to the contraction of the average helix diameter, i.e. to the damping of the base pair fluctuations. Instead, assuming that the maximum amplitude of the bending fluctuations may decrease against the external load, the DNA molecule first over-twists for weak applied forces and then untwists above a characteristic force value. Our results are discussed in relation to available experimental information albeit for kilo-base long molecules.
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- Marco Zoli
- School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
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Atwell S, Disseau L, Stasiak AZ, Stasiak A, Renodon-Cornière A, Takahashi M, Viovy JL, Cappello G. Probing Rad51-DNA interactions by changing DNA twist. Nucleic Acids Res 2012. [PMID: 23180779 PMCID: PMC3526263 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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In eukaryotes, Rad51 protein is responsible for the recombinational repair of double-strand DNA breaks. Rad51 monomers cooperatively assemble on exonuclease-processed broken ends forming helical nucleo-protein filaments that can pair with homologous regions of sister chromatids. Homologous pairing allows the broken ends to be reunited in a complex but error-free repair process. Rad51 protein has ATPase activity but its role is poorly understood, as homologous pairing is independent of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis. Here we use magnetic tweezers and electron microscopy to investigate how changes of DNA twist affect the structure of Rad51-DNA complexes and how ATP hydrolysis participates in this process. We show that Rad51 protein can bind to double-stranded DNA in two different modes depending on the enforced DNA twist. The stretching mode is observed when DNA is unwound towards a helical repeat of 18.6 bp/turn, whereas a non-stretching mode is observed when DNA molecules are not permitted to change their native helical repeat. We also show that the two forms of complexes are interconvertible and that by enforcing changes of DNA twist one can induce transitions between the two forms. Our observations permit a better understanding of the role of ATP hydrolysis in Rad51-mediated homologous pairing and strand exchange.
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- Scott Atwell
- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche-Physico-Chimie-Curie, CNRS UMR168, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris F-75231, France, Centre Intégratif de Génomique, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and Unité Fonctionnalité et Ingénierie des Protéines, FRE CNRS 3478, Université de Nantes, Nantes F-44322 Cedex 03, France
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- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche-Physico-Chimie-Curie, CNRS UMR168, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris F-75231, France, Centre Intégratif de Génomique, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and Unité Fonctionnalité et Ingénierie des Protéines, FRE CNRS 3478, Université de Nantes, Nantes F-44322 Cedex 03, France
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- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche-Physico-Chimie-Curie, CNRS UMR168, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris F-75231, France, Centre Intégratif de Génomique, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and Unité Fonctionnalité et Ingénierie des Protéines, FRE CNRS 3478, Université de Nantes, Nantes F-44322 Cedex 03, France
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- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche-Physico-Chimie-Curie, CNRS UMR168, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris F-75231, France, Centre Intégratif de Génomique, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and Unité Fonctionnalité et Ingénierie des Protéines, FRE CNRS 3478, Université de Nantes, Nantes F-44322 Cedex 03, France
- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +41 21 692 4282; Fax: +41 21 692 4115;
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- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche-Physico-Chimie-Curie, CNRS UMR168, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris F-75231, France, Centre Intégratif de Génomique, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and Unité Fonctionnalité et Ingénierie des Protéines, FRE CNRS 3478, Université de Nantes, Nantes F-44322 Cedex 03, France
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- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche-Physico-Chimie-Curie, CNRS UMR168, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris F-75231, France, Centre Intégratif de Génomique, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and Unité Fonctionnalité et Ingénierie des Protéines, FRE CNRS 3478, Université de Nantes, Nantes F-44322 Cedex 03, France
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- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche-Physico-Chimie-Curie, CNRS UMR168, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris F-75231, France, Centre Intégratif de Génomique, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and Unité Fonctionnalité et Ingénierie des Protéines, FRE CNRS 3478, Université de Nantes, Nantes F-44322 Cedex 03, France
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- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche-Physico-Chimie-Curie, CNRS UMR168, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris F-75231, France, Centre Intégratif de Génomique, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and Unité Fonctionnalité et Ingénierie des Protéines, FRE CNRS 3478, Université de Nantes, Nantes F-44322 Cedex 03, France
- Correspondence may also be addressed to Giovanni Cappello. Tel: +33 1 56 24 64 68; Fax: +33 1 40 51 06 36;
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ParA2, a Vibrio cholerae chromosome partitioning protein, forms left-handed helical filaments on DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:4590-5. [PMID: 20176965 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913060107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Most bacterial chromosomes contain homologs of plasmid partitioning (par) loci. These loci encode ATPases called ParA that are thought to contribute to the mechanical force required for chromosome and plasmid segregation. In Vibrio cholerae, the chromosome II (chrII) par locus is essential for chrII segregation. Here, we found that purified ParA2 had ATPase activities comparable to other ParA homologs, but, unlike many other ParA homologs, did not form high molecular weight complexes in the presence of ATP alone. Instead, formation of high molecular weight ParA2 polymers required DNA. Electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction revealed that ParA2 formed bipolar helical filaments on double-stranded DNA in a sequence-independent manner. These filaments had a distinct change in pitch when ParA2 was polymerized in the presence of ATP versus in the absence of a nucleotide cofactor. Fitting a crystal structure of a ParA protein into our filament reconstruction showed how a dimer of ParA2 binds the DNA. The filaments formed with ATP are left-handed, but surprisingly these filaments exert no topological changes on the right-handed B-DNA to which they are bound. The stoichiometry of binding is one dimer for every eight base pairs, and this determines the geometry of the ParA2 filaments with 4.4 dimers per 120 A pitch left-handed turn. Our findings will be critical for understanding how ParA proteins function in plasmid and chromosome segregation.
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van Loenhout MTJ, van der Heijden T, Kanaar R, Wyman C, Dekker C. Dynamics of RecA filaments on single-stranded DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2009; 37:4089-99. [PMID: 19429893 PMCID: PMC2709578 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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RecA, the key protein in homologous recombination, performs its actions as a helical filament on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). ATP hydrolysis makes the RecA-ssDNA filament dynamic and is essential for successful recombination. RecA has been studied extensively by single-molecule techniques on double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). Here we directly probe the structure and kinetics of RecA interaction with its biologically most relevant substrate, long ssDNA molecules. We find that RecA ATPase activity is required for the formation of long continuous filaments on ssDNA. These filaments both nucleate and extend with a multimeric unit as indicated by the Hill coefficient of 5.4 for filament nucleation. Disassembly rates of RecA from ssDNA decrease with applied stretching force, corresponding to a mechanism where protein-induced stretching of the ssDNA aids in the disassembly. Finally, we show that RecA-ssDNA filaments can reversibly interconvert between an extended, ATP-bound, and a compressed, ADP-bound state. Taken together, our results demonstrate that ATP hydrolysis has a major influence on the structure and state of RecA filaments on ssDNA.
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- Marijn T J van Loenhout
- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands
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Agarose gel electrophoresis is by far the most widely used method for characterizing the topological state of DNA molecules. Although this technique has been used for more than 30 years, the physical mechanism underlying the resolution of topological states remains poorly understood. However, electrophoretic methods remain the most robust and precise techniques for determining the local unwinding of DNA induced by the binding of proteins and small-molecule ligands, analyzing conformational transitions in duplex DNA, measuring changes in helical repeat that accompany shifts in environmental conditions, and characterizing knotting and linking in duplex DNA.
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- Stephen D Levene
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Dallas, TX, USA
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Homologous recombination in real time: DNA strand exchange by RecA. Mol Cell 2008; 30:530-8. [PMID: 18498754 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2007] [Revised: 11/02/2007] [Accepted: 03/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Homologous recombination, the exchange of strands between different DNA molecules, is essential for proper maintenance and accurate duplication of the genome. Using magnetic tweezers, we monitor RecA-driven homologous recombination of individual DNA molecules in real time. We resolve several key aspects of DNA structure during and after strand exchange. Changes in DNA length and twist yield helical parameters for the protein-bound three-stranded structure in conditions in which ATP was not hydrolyzed. When strand exchange was completed under ATP hydrolysis conditions that allow protein dissociation, a "D wrap" structure formed. During homologous recombination, strand invasion at one end and RecA dissociation at the other end occurred at the same rate, and our single-molecule analysis indicated that a region of only about 80 bp is actively involved in the synapsis at any time during the entire reaction involving a long ( approximately 1 kb) region of homology.
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Hasegawa Y, Fukuda S, Shimokawa K, Kondo S, Maeda N, Hayashizaki Y. A RecA-mediated exon profiling method. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:e97. [PMID: 16896013 PMCID: PMC1540731 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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We have developed a RecA-mediated simple, rapid and scalable method for identifying novel alternatively spliced full-length cDNA candidates. This method is based on the principle that RecA proteins allow to carry radioisotope-labeled probe DNAs to their homologous sequences, resulting in forming triplexes. The resulting complex is easily detected by mobility difference on electrophoresis. We applied this exon profiling method to four selected mouse genes as a feasibility study. To design probes for detection, the information on known exonic regions was extracted from public database, RefSeq. Concerning the potentially transcribed novel exonic regions, RNA mapping experiment using Affymetrix tiling array was performed. As a result, we were able to identify alternative splice variants of Thioredoxin domain containing 5, Interleukin1β, Interleukin 1 family 6 and glutamine-rich hypothetical protein. In addition, full-length sequencing demonstrated that our method could profile exon structures with >90% accuracy. This reliable method can allow us to screen novel splice variants from a huge number of cDNA clone set effectively.
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- Yuki Hasegawa
- Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), RIKEN Yokohama Institute 1-7-22 Suehiro-choTsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
- International Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yokohama City University1-7-29 Suehiro-Cho, Tsurumi-Ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), RIKEN Yokohama Institute 1-7-22 Suehiro-choTsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), RIKEN Yokohama Institute 1-7-22 Suehiro-choTsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), RIKEN Yokohama Institute 1-7-22 Suehiro-choTsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Genome Science Laboratory, Discovery and Research InstituteRIKEN Wako Main Campus, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), RIKEN Yokohama Institute 1-7-22 Suehiro-choTsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
- International Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yokohama City University1-7-29 Suehiro-Cho, Tsurumi-Ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
- Genome Science Laboratory, Discovery and Research InstituteRIKEN Wako Main Campus, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81 45 503 9222; Fax: +81 45 503 9216;
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Xiao J, Lee AM, Singleton SF. Construction and evaluation of a kinetic scheme for RecA-mediated DNA strand exchange. Biopolymers 2006; 81:473-96. [PMID: 16421856 DOI: 10.1002/bip.20446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The Escherichia coli RecA protein is the prototype of a class of proteins playing a central role in genomic repair and recombination in all organisms. The unresolved mechanistic strategy by which RecA aligns a single strand of DNA with a duplex DNA and mediates a DNA strand switch is central to understanding its recombinational activities. Toward a molecular-level understanding of RecA-mediated DNA strand exchange, we explored its mechanism using oligonucleotide substrates and the intrinsic fluorescence of 6-methylisoxanthopterin (6MI). Steady- and presteady-state spectrofluorometric data demonstrate that the reaction proceeds via a sequential four-step mechanism comprising a rapid, bimolecular association step followed by three slower unimolecular steps. Previous authors have proposed multistep mechanisms involving two or three steps. Careful analysis of the differences among the experimental systems revealed a previously undiscovered intermediate (N1) whose formation may be crucial in the kinetic discrimination of homologous and heterologous sequences. This observation has important implications for probing the fastest events in DNA strand exchange using 6MI to further elucidate the molecular mechanisms of recombination and recombinational repair.
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- Jie Xiao
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
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Folta-Stogniew E, O'Malley S, Gupta R, Anderson KS, Radding CM. Exchange of DNA base pairs that coincides with recognition of homology promoted by E. coli RecA protein. Mol Cell 2004; 15:965-75. [PMID: 15383285 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2004.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2004] [Revised: 06/06/2004] [Accepted: 07/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The unresolved mechanism by which a single strand of DNA recognizes homology in duplex DNA is central to understanding genetic recombination and repair of double-strand breaks. Using stopped-flow fluorescence we monitored strand exchange catalyzed by E. coli RecA protein, measuring simultaneously the rate of exchange of A:T base pairs and the rates of formation and dissociation of the three-stranded intermediates called synaptic complexes. The rate of exchange of A:T base pairs was indistinguishable from the rate of formation of synaptic complexes, whereas the rate of displacement of a single strand from complexes was five to ten times slower. This physical evidence shows that a subset of bases exchanges at a rate that is fast enough to account for recognition of homology. Together, several studies suggest that a mechanism governed by the dynamic structure of DNA and catalyzed by diverse enzymes underlies both recognition of homology and initiation of strand exchange.
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- Ewa Folta-Stogniew
- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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Kiianitsa K, Solinger JA, Heyer WD. Rad54 protein exerts diverse modes of ATPase activity on duplex DNA partially and fully covered with Rad51 protein. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:46205-15. [PMID: 12359723 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m207967200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Rad54 protein is a Snf2-like ATPase with a specialized function in the recombinational repair of DNA damage. Rad54 is thought to stimulate the search of homology via formation of a specific complex with the presynaptic Rad51 filament on single-stranded DNA. Herein, we address the interaction of Rad54 with Rad51 filaments on double-stranded (ds) DNA, an intermediate in DNA strand exchange with unclear functional significance. We show that Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad54 exerts distinct modes of ATPase activity on partially and fully saturated filaments of Rad51 protein on dsDNA. The highest ATPase activity is observed on dsDNA containing short patches of yeast Rad51 filaments resulting in a 6-fold increase compared with protein-free DNA. This enhanced ATPase mode of yeast Rad54 can also be elicited by partial filaments of human Rad51 protein but to a lesser extent. In contrast, the interaction of Rad54 protein with duplex DNA fully covered with Rad51 is entirely species-specific. When yeast Rad51 fully covers dsDNA, Rad54 protein hydrolyzes ATP in a reduced mode at 60-80% of its rate on protein-free DNA. Instead, saturated filaments with human Rad51 fail to support the yeast Rad54 ATPase. We suggest that the interaction of Rad54 with dsDNA-Rad51 complexes is of functional importance in homologous recombination.
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- Konstantin Kiianitsa
- Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Microbiology, Center for Genetics and Development, University of California, Davis, California 95616-8665, USA
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Xiao J, Singleton SF. Elucidating a key intermediate in homologous DNA strand exchange: structural characterization of the RecA-triple-stranded DNA complex using fluorescence resonance energy transfer. J Mol Biol 2002; 320:529-58. [PMID: 12096908 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(02)00462-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The RecA protein of Escherichia coli plays essential roles in homologous recombination and restarting stalled DNA replication forks. In vitro, the protein mediates DNA strand exchange between single-stranded (ssDNA) and homologous double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) molecules that serves as a model system for the in vivo processes. To date, no high-resolution structure of the key intermediate, comprised of three DNA strands simultaneously bound to a RecA filament (RecA-tsDNA complex), has been reported. We present a systematic characterization of the helical geometries of the three DNA strands of the RecA-tsDNA complex using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) under physiologically relevant solution conditions. FRET donor and acceptor dyes were used to label different DNA strands, and the interfluorophore distances were inferred from energy transfer efficiencies measured as a function of the base-pair separation between the two dyes. The energy transfer efficiencies were first measured on a control RecA-dsDNA complex, and the calculated helical parameters (h approximately 5 A, Omega(h) approximately 20 degrees ) were consistent with structural conclusions derived from electron microscopy (EM) and other classic biochemical methods. Measurements of the helical parameters for the RecA-tsDNA complex revealed that all three DNA strands adopt extended and unwound conformations similar to those of RecA-bound dsDNA. The structural data are consistent with the hypothesis that this complex is a late, post-strand-exchange intermediate with the outgoing strand shifted by about three base-pairs with respect to its registry with the incoming and complementary strands. Furthermore, the bases of the incoming and complementary strands are displaced away from the helix axis toward the minor groove of the heteroduplex, and the bases of the outgoing strand lie in the major groove of the heteroduplex. We present a model for the strand exchange intermediate in which homologous contacts preceding strand exchange arise in the minor groove of the substrate dsDNA.
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- Jie Xiao
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, MS 65, Houston, TX 77005, USA
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Singleton SF, Xiao J. The stretched DNA geometry of recombination and repair nucleoprotein filaments. Biopolymers 2002; 61:145-58. [PMID: 11987178 DOI: 10.1002/bip.10145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The RecA protein of Escherichia coli plays essential roles in homologous recombination and restarting stalled DNA replication forks. In vitro, the protein mediates DNA strand exchange between single-stranded (ssDNA) and homologous double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) molecules that serves as a model system for the in vivo processes. To date, no high-resolution structure of the key intermediate, comprised of three DNA strands simultaneously bound to a RecA filament (RecA x tsDNA complex), has been elucidated by classical methods. Here we review the systematic characterization of the helical geometries of the three DNA strands of the RecA x tsDNA complex using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) under physiologically relevant solution conditions. Measurements of the helical parameters for the RecA x tsDNA complex are consistent with the hypothesis that this complex is a late, poststrand-exchange intermediate with the outgoing strand shifted by about three base pairs with respect to its registry with the incoming and complementary strands. All three strands in the RecA x tsDNA complex adopt extended and unwound conformations similar to those of RecA-bound ssDNA and dsDNA.
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- S F Singleton
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, P. O. Box 1892, MS 65, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
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Bucka A, Stasiak A. RecA-mediated strand exchange traverses substitutional heterologies more easily than deletions or insertions. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:2464-70. [PMID: 11410652 PMCID: PMC55751 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.12.2464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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RecA protein in bacteria and its eukaryotic homolog Rad51 protein are responsible for initiation of strand exchange between homologous DNA molecules. This process is crucial for homologous recombination, the repair of certain types of DNA damage and for the reinitiation of DNA replication on collapsed replication forks. We show here, using two different types of in vitro assays, that in the absence of ATP hydrolysis RecA-mediated strand exchange traverses small substitutional heterologies between the interacting DNAs, whereas small deletions or insertions block the ongoing strand exchange. We discuss evolutionary implications of RecA selectivity against insertions and deletions and propose a molecular mechanism by which RecA can exert this selectivity.
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- A Bucka
- Laboratoire d'Analyse Ultrastructurale, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland
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Cai L, Marquardt U, Zhang Z, Taisey MJ, Chen J. Topological testing of the mechanism of homology search promoted by RecA protein. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:1389-98. [PMID: 11239006 PMCID: PMC29744 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.6.1389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2000] [Revised: 01/08/2001] [Accepted: 01/08/2001] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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To initiate homologous recombination, sequence similarity between two DNA molecules must be searched for and homology recognized. How the search for and recognition of homology occurs remains unproven. We have examined the influences of DNA topology and the polarity of RecA-single-stranded (ss)DNA filaments on the formation of synaptic complexes promoted by RecA. Using two complementary methods and various ssDNA and duplex DNA molecules as substrates, we demonstrate that topological constraints on a small circular RecA-ssDNA filament prevent it from interwinding with its duplex DNA target at the homologous region. We were unable to detect homologous pairing between a circular RecA-ssDNA filament and its relaxed or supercoiled circular duplex DNA targets. However, the formation of synaptic complexes between an invading linear RecA-ssDNA filament and covalently closed circular duplex DNAs is promoted by supercoiling of the duplex DNA. The results imply that a triplex structure formed by non-Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding is unlikely to be an intermediate in homology searching promoted by RecA. Rather, a model in which RecA-mediated homology searching requires unwinding of the duplex DNA coupled with local strand exchange is the likely mechanism. Furthermore, we show that polarity of the invading RecA-ssDNA does not affect its ability to pair and interwind with its circular target duplex DNA.
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- L Cai
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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Malkov VA, Panyutin IG, Neumann RD, Zhurkin VB, Camerini-Otero RD. Radioprobing of a RecA-three-stranded DNA complex with iodine 125: evidence for recognition of homology in the major groove of the target duplex. J Mol Biol 2000; 299:629-40. [PMID: 10835273 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A fundamental problem in homologous recombination is how homology between DNAs is recognized. In all current models, a recombination protein loads onto a single strand of DNA and scans another duplex for homology. When homology is found, a synaptic complex is formed, leading to strand exchange and a heteroduplex. A novel technique based on strand cleavage by the Auger radiodecay of iodine 125, allows us to determine the distances between (125)I on the incoming strand and the target sugars of the duplex DNA strands in an Escherichia coli RecA protein-mediated synaptic complex. Analysis of these distances shows that the complex represents a post-strand exchange intermediate in which the heteroduplex is located in the center, while the outgoing strand forms a relatively wide helix intertwined with the heteroduplex and located in its minor groove. The structure implies that homology is recognized in the major groove of the duplex.
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- V A Malkov
- Genetics and Biochemistry Branch, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Kuzminov A. Recombinational repair of DNA damage in Escherichia coli and bacteriophage lambda. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1999; 63:751-813, table of contents. [PMID: 10585965 PMCID: PMC98976 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.63.4.751-813.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 719] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Although homologous recombination and DNA repair phenomena in bacteria were initially extensively studied without regard to any relationship between the two, it is now appreciated that DNA repair and homologous recombination are related through DNA replication. In Escherichia coli, two-strand DNA damage, generated mostly during replication on a template DNA containing one-strand damage, is repaired by recombination with a homologous intact duplex, usually the sister chromosome. The two major types of two-strand DNA lesions are channeled into two distinct pathways of recombinational repair: daughter-strand gaps are closed by the RecF pathway, while disintegrated replication forks are reestablished by the RecBCD pathway. The phage lambda recombination system is simpler in that its major reaction is to link two double-stranded DNA ends by using overlapping homologous sequences. The remarkable progress in understanding the mechanisms of recombinational repair in E. coli over the last decade is due to the in vitro characterization of the activities of individual recombination proteins. Putting our knowledge about recombinational repair in the broader context of DNA replication will guide future experimentation.
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- A Kuzminov
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA.
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Bertucat G, Lavery R, Prévost C. A molecular model for RecA-promoted strand exchange via parallel triple-stranded helices. Biophys J 1999; 77:1562-76. [PMID: 10465767 PMCID: PMC1300444 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(99)77004-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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A number of studies have concluded that strand exchange between a RecA-complexed DNA single strand and a homologous DNA duplex occurs via a single-strand invasion of the minor groove of the duplex. Using molecular modeling, we have previously demonstrated the possibility of forming a parallel triple helix in which the single strand interacts with the intact duplex in the minor groove, via novel base interactions (Bertucat et al., J. Biomol. Struct. Dynam. 16:535-546). This triplex is stabilized by the stretching and unwinding imposed by RecA. In the present study, we show that the bases within this triplex are appropriately placed to undergo strand exchange. Strand exchange is found to be exothermic and to result in a triple helix in which the new single strand occupies the major groove. This structure, which can be equated to so-called R-form DNA, can be further stabilized by compression and rewinding. We are consequently able to propose a detailed, atomic-scale model of RecA-promoted strand exchange. This model, which is supported by a variety of experimental data, suggests that the role of RecA is principally to prepare the single strand for its future interactions, to guide a minor groove attack on duplex DNA, and to stabilize the resulting, stretched triplex, which intrinsically favors strand exchange. We also discuss how this mechanism can incorporate homologous recognition.
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- G Bertucat
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, CNRS UPR 9080, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 75005 Paris, France
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Bertucat G, Lavery R, Prévost C. A model for parallel triple helix formation by RecA: single-single association with a homologous duplex via the minor groove. J Biomol Struct Dyn 1998; 16:535-46. [PMID: 10052612 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.1998.10508268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The nucleoproteic filaments of RecA polymerized on single stranded DNA are able to integrate double stranded DNA in a coaxial arrangement (with DNA stretched by a factor 1.5), to recognize homologous sequences in the duplex and to perform strand exchange between the single stranded and double stranded molecules. While experimental results favor the hypothesis of an invasion of the minor groove of the duplex by the single strand, parallel minor groove triple helices have never been isolated or even modeled, the minor groove offering little space for a third strand to interact. Based on an internal coordinate modeling study, we show here that such a structure is perfectly conceivable when the two interacting oligomers are stretched by a factor 1.5, in order to open the minor groove of the duplex. The model helix presents characteristics that coincide with known experimental data on unwinding, base pair inclination and inter-proton distances. Moreover, we show that extension and unwinding stabilize the triple helix. New patterns of triplet interaction via the minor groove are presented.
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- G Bertucat
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, UPR 9080, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- C I Kado
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
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