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Zhu X, Kanemaki MT. Replication initiation sites and zones in the mammalian genome: Where are they located and how are they defined? DNA Repair (Amst) 2024; 141:103713. [PMID: 38959715 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2024.103713] [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: 04/19/2024] [Revised: 06/14/2024] [Accepted: 06/15/2024] [Indexed: 07/05/2024]
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Eukaryotic DNA replication is a tightly controlled process that occurs in two main steps, i.e., licensing and firing, which take place in the G1 and S phases of the cell cycle, respectively. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the budding yeast, replication origins contain consensus sequences that are recognized and bound by the licensing factor Orc1-6, which then recruits the replicative Mcm2-7 helicase. By contrast, mammalian initiation sites lack such consensus sequences, and the mammalian ORC does not exhibit sequence specificity. Studies performed over the past decades have identified replication initiation sites in the mammalian genome using sequencing-based assays, raising the question of whether replication initiation occurs at confined sites or in broad zones across the genome. Although recent reports have shown that the licensed MCMs in mammalian cells are broadly distributed, suggesting that ORC-dependent licensing may not determine the initiation sites/zones, they are predominantly located upstream of actively transcribed genes. This review compares the mechanism of replication initiation in yeast and mammalian cells, summarizes the sequencing-based technologies used for the identification of initiation sites/zones, and proposes a possible mechanism of initiation-site/zone selection in mammalian cells. Future directions and challenges in this field are also discussed.
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- Xiaoxuan Zhu
- Department of Chromosome Science, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Yata 1111, Shizuoka, Mishima 411-8540, Japan.
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- Department of Chromosome Science, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Yata 1111, Shizuoka, Mishima 411-8540, Japan; Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Yata 1111, Shizuoka, Mishima 411-8540, Japan; Department of Biological Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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Kwan EX, Alvino GM, Lynch KL, Levan PF, Amemiya HM, Wang XS, Johnson SA, Sanchez JC, Miller MA, Croy M, Lee SB, Naushab M, Bedalov A, Cuperus JT, Brewer BJ, Queitsch C, Raghuraman MK. Ribosomal DNA replication time coordinates completion of genome replication and anaphase in yeast. Cell Rep 2023; 42:112161. [PMID: 36842087 PMCID: PMC10142053 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112161] [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: 05/31/2022] [Revised: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/27/2023] Open
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Timely completion of genome replication is a prerequisite for mitosis, genome integrity, and cell survival. A challenge to this timely completion comes from the need to replicate the hundreds of untranscribed copies of rDNA that organisms maintain in addition to the copies required for ribosome biogenesis. Replication of these rDNA arrays is relegated to late S phase despite their large size, repetitive nature, and essentiality. Here, we show that, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, reducing the number of rDNA repeats leads to early rDNA replication, which results in delaying replication elsewhere in the genome. Moreover, cells with early-replicating rDNA arrays and delayed genome-wide replication aberrantly release the mitotic phosphatase Cdc14 from the nucleolus and enter anaphase prematurely. We propose that rDNA copy number determines the replication time of the rDNA locus and that the release of Cdc14 upon completion of rDNA replication is a signal for cell cycle progression.
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- Elizabeth X Kwan
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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Organization of DNA Replication Origin Firing in Xenopus Egg Extracts: The Role of Intra-S Checkpoint. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12081224. [PMID: 34440398 PMCID: PMC8394201 DOI: 10.3390/genes12081224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Revised: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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During cell division, the duplication of the genome starts at multiple positions called replication origins. Origin firing requires the interaction of rate-limiting factors with potential origins during the S(ynthesis)-phase of the cell cycle. Origins fire as synchronous clusters which is proposed to be regulated by the intra-S checkpoint. By modelling the unchallenged, the checkpoint-inhibited and the checkpoint protein Chk1 over-expressed replication pattern of single DNA molecules from Xenopus sperm chromatin replicated in egg extracts, we demonstrate that the quantitative modelling of data requires: (1) a segmentation of the genome into regions of low and high probability of origin firing; (2) that regions with high probability of origin firing escape intra-S checkpoint regulation and (3) the variability of the rate of DNA synthesis close to replication forks is a necessary ingredient that should be taken in to account in order to describe the dynamic of replication origin firing. This model implies that the observed origin clustering emerges from the apparent synchrony of origin firing in regions with high probability of origin firing and challenge the assumption that the intra-S checkpoint is the main regulator of origin clustering.
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Electrophoretic mobility shift assays are widely used in gel electrophoresis to study binding interactions between different molecular species loaded into the same well. However, shift assays can access only a subset of reaction possibilities that could be otherwise seen if separate bands of reagent species might instead be collisionally reacted. Here, we adapt gel electrophoresis by fabricating two or more wells in the same lane, loading these wells with different reagent species, and applying an electric field, thereby producing collisional reactions between propagating pulse-like bands of these species, which we image optically. For certain pairs of anionic and cationic dyes, propagating bands pass through each other unperturbed; yet, for other pairs, we observe complexing and precipitation reactions, indicating strong attractive interactions. We generalize this band-collision gel electrophoresis (BCGE) approach to other reaction types, including acid-base, ligand exchange, and redox, as well as to colloidal species in passivated large-pore gels. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays are widely used in gel electrophoresis to study binding interactions between different molecular species, but these assays access only a subset of reaction possibilities. Here, the authors develop a band-collision gel electrophoresis (BCGE) approach that demonstrates a much wider variety of reaction types.
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Mullican JC, Chapman NM, Tracy S. Mapping the Single Origin of Replication in the Naegleria gruberi Extrachromosomal DNA Element. Protist 2019; 170:141-152. [DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2019.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Revised: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 02/06/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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DNA replication origins strikingly differ between eukaryotic species and cell types. Origins are localized and can be highly efficient in budding yeast, are randomly located in early fly and frog embryos, which do not transcribe their genomes, and are clustered in broad (10-100 kb) non-transcribed zones, frequently abutting transcribed genes, in mammalian cells. Nonetheless, in all cases, origins are established during the G1-phase of the cell cycle by the loading of double hexamers of the Mcm 2-7 proteins (MCM DHs), the core of the replicative helicase. MCM DH activation in S-phase leads to origin unwinding, polymerase recruitment, and initiation of bidirectional DNA synthesis. Although MCM DHs are initially loaded at sites defined by the binding of the origin recognition complex (ORC), they ultimately bind chromatin in much greater numbers than ORC and only a fraction are activated in any one S-phase. Data suggest that the multiplicity and functional redundancy of MCM DHs provide robustness to the replication process and affect replication time and that MCM DHs can slide along the DNA and spread over large distances around the ORC. Recent studies further show that MCM DHs are displaced along the DNA by collision with transcription complexes but remain functional for initiation after displacement. Therefore, eukaryotic DNA replication relies on intrinsically mobile and flexible origins, a strategy fundamentally different from bacteria but conserved from yeast to human. These properties of MCM DHs likely contribute to the establishment of broad, intergenic replication initiation zones in higher eukaryotes.
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- Olivier Hyrien
- Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure (IBENS), Ecole Normale Superieure, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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Rizwani W, Chellappan SP. In vitro replication assay with mammalian cell extracts. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1288:349-62. [PMID: 25827890 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2474-5_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Regulatory mechanisms are crucial to control DNA replication during cell cycle in eukaryotic cells. Cell-free in vitro replication assay (IVRA) is one of the widely used assays to understand the complex mammalian replication system. IVRA can provide a snapshot of the regulatory mechanisms controlling replication in higher eukaryotes by using a single plasmid, pEPI-1. This chapter outlines the general strategies and protocols used to perform IVRA to study the differential recruitment of replication factors either independently or in combination, based on the experience in studying the role of prohibitin in replication as well as other published protocols. This method can be employed to identify not only proteins that assist replication but also proteins that inhibit replication of mammalian genome.
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- Wasia Rizwani
- Department of Biochemistry, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500 007, India,
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Hagedorn C, Lipps HJ, Rupprecht S. The epigenetic regulation of autonomous replicons. Biomol Concepts 2015; 1:17-30. [PMID: 25961982 DOI: 10.1515/bmc.2010.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The discovery of autonomous replicating sequences (ARSs) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in 1979 was considered a milestone in unraveling the regulation of replication in eukaryotic cells. However, shortly afterwards it became obvious that in Saccharomyces pombe and all other higher organisms ARSs were not sufficient to initiate independent replication. Understanding the mechanisms of replication is a major challenge in modern cell biology and is also a prerequisite to developing application-oriented autonomous replicons for gene therapeutic treatments. This review will focus on the development of non-viral episomal vectors, their use in gene therapeutic applications and our current knowledge about their epigenetic regulation.
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Hyrien O. Peaks cloaked in the mist: the landscape of mammalian replication origins. J Cell Biol 2015; 208:147-60. [PMID: 25601401 PMCID: PMC4298691 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201407004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2014] [Accepted: 12/16/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Replication of mammalian genomes starts at sites termed replication origins, which historically have been difficult to locate as a result of large genome sizes, limited power of genetic identification schemes, and rareness and fragility of initiation intermediates. However, origins are now mapped by the thousands using microarrays and sequencing techniques. Independent studies show modest concordance, suggesting that mammalian origins can form at any DNA sequence but are suppressed by read-through transcription or that they can overlap the 5' end or even the entire gene. These results require a critical reevaluation of whether origins form at specific DNA elements and/or epigenetic signals or require no such determinants.
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- Olivier Hyrien
- Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8197 and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1024, 75005 Paris, France
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Robinson NP. Analysis of branched DNA replication and recombination intermediates from prokaryotic cells by two-dimensional (2D) native-native agarose gel electrophoresis. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1054:45-61. [PMID: 23913284 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-565-1_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Branched DNA molecules are generated by the essential processes of replication and recombination. Owing to their distinctive extended shapes, these intermediates migrate differently from linear double-stranded DNA under certain electrophoretic conditions. However, these branched species exist in the cell at much low abundance than the bulk linear DNA. Consequently, branched molecules cannot be visualized by conventional electrophoresis and ethidium bromide staining. Two-dimensional native-native agarose electrophoresis has therefore been developed as a method to facilitate the separation and visualization of branched replication and recombination intermediates. A wide variety of studies have employed this technique to examine branched molecules in eukaryotic, archaeal, and bacterial cells, providing valuable insights into how DNA is duplicated and repaired in all three domains of life.
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Hyrien O, Rappailles A, Guilbaud G, Baker A, Chen CL, Goldar A, Petryk N, Kahli M, Ma E, d'Aubenton-Carafa Y, Audit B, Thermes C, Arneodo A. From simple bacterial and archaeal replicons to replication N/U-domains. J Mol Biol 2013; 425:4673-89. [PMID: 24095859 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2013] [Revised: 09/15/2013] [Accepted: 09/19/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The Replicon Theory proposed 50 years ago has proven to apply for replicons of the three domains of life. Here, we review our knowledge of genome organization into single and multiple replicons in bacteria, archaea and eukarya. Bacterial and archaeal replicator/initiator systems are quite specific and efficient, whereas eukaryotic replicons show degenerate specificity and efficiency, allowing for complex regulation of origin firing time. We expand on recent evidence that ~50% of the human genome is organized as ~1,500 megabase-sized replication domains with a characteristic parabolic (U-shaped) replication timing profile and linear (N-shaped) gradient of replication fork polarity. These N/U-domains correspond to self-interacting segments of the chromatin fiber bordered by open chromatin zones and replicate by cascades of origin firing initiating at their borders and propagating to their center, possibly by fork-stimulated initiation. The conserved occurrence of this replication pattern in the germline of mammals has resulted over evolutionary times in the formation of megabase-sized domains with an N-shaped nucleotide compositional skew profile due to replication-associated mutational asymmetries. Overall, these results reveal an evolutionarily conserved but developmentally plastic organization of replication that is driving mammalian genome evolution.
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- Olivier Hyrien
- Ecole Normale Supérieure, IBENS UMR8197 U1024, Paris 75005, France.
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Gaggioli V, Le Viet B, Germe T, Hyrien O. DNA topoisomerase IIα controls replication origin cluster licensing and firing time in Xenopus egg extracts. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:7313-31. [PMID: 23757188 PMCID: PMC3753627 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Sperm chromatin incubated in Xenopus egg extracts undergoes origin licensing and nuclear assembly before DNA replication. We found that depletion of DNA topoisomerase IIα (topo IIα), the sole topo II isozyme of eggs and its inhibition by ICRF-193, which clamps topo IIα around DNA have opposite effects on these processes. ICRF-193 slowed down replication origin cluster activation and fork progression in a checkpoint-independent manner, without altering replicon size. In contrast, topo IIα depletion accelerated origin cluster activation, and topo IIα add-back negated overinitiation. Therefore, topo IIα is not required for DNA replication, but topo IIα clamps slow replication, probably by forming roadblocks. ICRF-193 had no effect on DNA synthesis when added after nuclear assembly, confirming that topo IIα activity is dispensable for replication and revealing that topo IIα clamps formed on replicating DNA do not block replication, presumably because topo IIα acts behind and not in front of forks. Topo IIα depletion increased, and topo IIα addition reduced, chromatin loading of MCM2-7 replicative helicase, whereas ICRF-193 did not affect MCM2-7 loading. Therefore, topo IIα restrains MCM2-7 loading in an ICRF-193-resistant manner during origin licensing, suggesting a model for establishing the sequential firing of origin clusters.
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- Vincent Gaggioli
- Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), S2-Génomique Fonctionnelle, CNRS UMR8197, Inserm U1024, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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Chandok GS, Kapoor KK, Brick RM, Sidorova JM, Krasilnikova MM. A distinct first replication cycle of DNA introduced in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:2103-15. [PMID: 21062817 PMCID: PMC3064806 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2010] [Revised: 08/30/2010] [Accepted: 09/23/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Many mutation events in microsatellite DNA sequences were traced to the first embryonic divisions. It was not known what makes the first replication cycles of embryonic DNA different from subsequent replication cycles. Here we demonstrate that an unusual replication mode is involved in the first cycle of replication of DNA introduced in mammalian cells. This alternative replication starts at random positions, and occurs before the chromatin is fully assembled. It is detected in various cell lines and primary cells. The presence of single-stranded regions increases the efficiency of this alternative replication mode. The alternative replication cannot progress through the A/T-rich FRA16B fragile site, while the regular replication mode is not affected by it. A/T-rich microsatellites are associated with the majority of chromosomal breakpoints in cancer. We suggest that the alternative replication mode may be initiated at the regions with immature chromatin structure in embryonic and cancer cells resulting in increased genomic instability. This work demonstrates, for the first time, differences in the replication progression during the first and subsequent replication cycles in mammalian cells.
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- Gurangad S. Chandok
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16801 and Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7705 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16801 and Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7705 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16801 and Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7705 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16801 and Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7705 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16801 and Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7705 USA
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Eukaryotic DNA replication is a complex process. Replication starts at thousand origins that are activated at different times in S phase and terminates when converging replication forks meet. Potential origins are much more abundant than actually fire within a given S phase. The choice of replication origins and their time of activation is never exactly the same in any two cells. Individual origins show different efficiencies and different firing time probability distributions, conferring stochasticity to the DNA replication process. High-throughput microarray and sequencing techniques are providing increasingly huge datasets on the population-averaged spatiotemporal patterns of DNA replication in several organisms. On the other hand, single-molecule replication mapping techniques such as DNA combing provide unique information about cell-to-cell variability in DNA replication patterns. Mathematical modelling is required to fully comprehend the complexity of the chromosome replication process and to correctly interpret these data. Mathematical analysis and computer simulations have been recently used to model and interpret genome-wide replication data in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, in Xenopus egg extracts and in mammalian cells. These works reveal how stochasticity in origin usage confers robustness and reliability to the DNA replication process.
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- Olivier Hyrien
- Ecole Normale Supérieure, UMR CNRS 8541, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France.
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Schvartzman JB, Martínez-Robles ML, Hernández P, Krimer DB. Plasmid DNA replication and topology as visualized by two-dimensional agarose gel electrophoresis. Plasmid 2009; 63:1-10. [PMID: 19925824 DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2009.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2009] [Revised: 11/10/2009] [Accepted: 11/12/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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During the last 20 years, two-dimensional agarose gel electrophoresis combined with other techniques such as Polymerase Chain Reaction, helicase assay and electron microscopy, helped to characterize plasmid DNA replication and topology. Here we describe some of the most important findings that were made using this method including the characterization of uni-directional replication, replication origin interference, DNA breakage at the forks, replication fork blockage, replication knotting, replication fork reversal, the interplay of supercoiling and catenation and other changes in DNA topology that take place as replication progresses.
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- J B Schvartzman
- Departamento de Biología Celular y del Desarrollo, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Hyrien O. Topological analysis of plasmid DNA replication intermediates using two-dimensional agarose gels. Methods Mol Biol 2009; 521:139-67. [PMID: 19563105 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-815-7_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/26/2023]
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A fundamental process in DNA replication is the disentangling of the two parental strands by DNA topoisomerases. In this chapter, I detail the topological analysis of plasmid replication intermediates using two-dimensional (2D) agarose gels. The method can resolve replication intermediates according to mass and topology, and can resolve unlinked monomeric circles from catenated dimers of varying topology. The method has been used, alone or in combination with a procedure for purifying covalent protein-DNA complexes, to analyse the effect oftopoisomerase inhibitors on the topology of replication intermediates, to map the location of drug-stabilized topoisomerase cleavage complexes with respect to replication forks and to detect the breakage and repair of replication forks following collision with cleavage complexes. Other applications include the detection of knots that form independently of, or concomitantly with, DNA replication.
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- Olivier Hyrien
- Genetique Moleculaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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Universal temporal profile of replication origin activation in eukaryotes. PLoS One 2009; 4:e5899. [PMID: 19521533 PMCID: PMC2690853 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2009] [Accepted: 05/20/2009] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Although replication proteins are conserved among eukaryotes, the sequence requirements for replication initiation differ between species. In all species, however, replication origins fire asynchronously throughout S phase. The temporal program of origin firing is reproducible in cell populations but largely probabilistic at the single-cell level. The mechanisms and the significance of this program are unclear. Replication timing has been correlated with gene activity in metazoans but not in yeast. One potential role for a temporal regulation of origin firing is to minimize fluctuations in replication end time and avoid persistence of unreplicated DNA in mitosis. Here, we have extracted the population-averaged temporal profiles of replication initiation rates for S. cerevisiae, S. pombe, D. melanogaster, X. laevis and H. sapiens from genome-wide replication timing and DNA combing data. All the profiles have a strikingly similar shape, increasing during the first half of S phase then decreasing before its end. A previously proposed minimal model of stochastic initiation modulated by accumulation of a recyclable, limiting replication-fork factor and fork-promoted initiation of new origins, quantitatively described the observed profiles without requiring new implementations. The selective pressure for timely completion of genome replication and optimal usage of replication proteins that must be imported into the cell nucleus can explain the generic shape of the profiles. We have identified a universal behavior of eukaryotic replication initiation that transcends the mechanisms of origin specification. The population-averaged efficiency of replication origin usage changes during S phase in a strikingly similar manner in a highly diverse set of eukaryotes. The quantitative model previously proposed for origin activation in X. laevis can be generalized to explain this evolutionary conservation.
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Wu PYJ, Nurse P. Establishing the program of origin firing during S phase in fission Yeast. Cell 2009; 136:852-64. [PMID: 19269364 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2007] [Revised: 07/17/2008] [Accepted: 01/05/2009] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Initiation of eukaryotic DNA synthesis occurs at origins of replication that are utilized with characteristic times and frequencies during S phase. We have investigated origin usage by evaluating the kinetics of replication factor binding in fission yeast and show that similar to metazoa, ORC binding is periodic during the cell cycle, increasing during mitosis and peaking at M/G1. At an origin, the timing of ORC binding in M and pre-RC assembly in G1 correlates with the timing of firing during S, and the level of pre-IC formation reflects origin efficiency. Extending mitosis allows ORC to become more equally associated with origins and leads to genome-wide changes in origin usage, while overproduction of pre-IC factors increases replication of both efficient and inefficient origins. We propose that differential recruitment of ORC to origins during mitosis followed by competition among origins for limiting replication factors establishes the timing and efficiency of origin firing.
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Dalgaard JZ, Eydmann T, Koulintchenko M, Sayrac S, Vengrova S, Yamada-Inagawa T. Random and site-specific replication termination. Methods Mol Biol 2009; 521:35-53. [PMID: 19563100 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-815-7_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Bi-directionality is a common feature observed for genomic replication for all three phylogenetic kingdoms: Eubacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryotes. A consequence of bi-directional replication, where the two replication forks initiated at an origin move away from each other, is that the replication termination will occur at positions away from the origin sequence(s). The replication termination processes are therefore physically and mechanistically dissociated from the replication initiation. The replication machinery is a highly processive complex that in short time copies huge numbers of bases while competing for the DNA substrate with histones, transcription factors, and other DNA-binding proteins. Importantly, the replication machinery generally wins out; meanwhile, when converging forks meet termination occurs, thus preventing over-replication and genetic instability. Very different scenarios for the replication termination processes have been described for the three phylogenetic kingdoms. In eubacterial genomes replication termination is site specific, while in archaea and eukaryotes termination is thought to occur randomly within zones where converging replication forks meet. However, a few site-specific replication barrier elements that mediate replication termination have been described in eukaryotes. This review gives an overview about what is known about replication termination, with a focus on these natural site-specific replication termination sites.
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Marheineke K, Goldar A, Krude T, Hyrien O. Use of DNA combing to study DNA replication in Xenopus and human cell-free systems. Methods Mol Biol 2009; 521:575-603. [PMID: 19563130 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-815-7_33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The Xenopus egg extract has become the gold standard for in vitro studies of metazoan DNA replication. We have used this system to study the mechanisms that ensure rapid and complete DNA replication despite random initiation during Xenopus early development. To this end we adapted the DNA combing technique to investigate the distribution of replication bubbles along single DNA molecules. DNA replicating in egg extracts is labelled by addition of digoxigenin-11-dUTP and/or biotin-16-dUTP at precise times. These two dTTP analogues are efficiently incorporated into DNA during replication in the extract. After DNA purification and combing the DNA is visualized with appropriate fluorescent antibody/streptavidin molecules. Replicated DNA appears as green or red tracts whose pattern reveals how each molecule was replicated, allowing to follow the dynamics of DNA replication through S phase. We describe (a) the preparation and use of egg extracts and demembranated sperm chromatin templates; (b) a simple method for preparing silanized glass coverslips suitable for DNA combing and fluorescence detection; (c) two alternative replicative DNA labelling schemes and their respective advantages; and (d) a protocol for combining replicative labelling with detection of specific DNA sequences by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). Although most observations made in Xenopus egg extracts are applicable to other eukaryotes, there are differences in cell-cycle regulation between mammalian somatic cells and embryonic amphibian cells, which led to the development of human cell-free systems that can initiate semi-conservative chromosomal DNA replication under cell-cycle control. We have employed the knowledge gained with Xenopus extracts to characterize DNA replication intermediates generated in human cell-free systems using DNA combing. We describe here (a) the preparation and use of human cell-free extracts and initiation-competent template nuclei for DNA combing studies; (b) an optimized labelling scheme for DNA replication intermediates by molecular combing and fluorescence microscopy.
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Regulatory mechanisms for DNA replication are crucial to the control of the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells. One of the widely used assays to understand the complex mammalian replication system is the cell-free in vitro replication assay (IVRA). IVRA can provide a snapshot of the regulatory mechanisms controlling replication in higher eukaryotes by using a single plasmid, pEPI-1. This chapter outlines the general strategies and protocols used to perform IVRA to study the differential recruitment of replication factors either independently or in combination, based on the experience in studying the role of prohibitin in replication as well as other published protocols. This method can be employed to identify not only proteins that assist replication but also proteins that inhibit replication of mammalian genome.
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- Wasia Rizwani
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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Checkpoint-dependent regulation of origin firing and replication fork movement in response to DNA damage in fission yeast. Mol Cell Biol 2008; 29:602-11. [PMID: 19001087 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01319-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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To elucidate the checkpoint mechanism responsible for slowing passage through S phase when fission yeast cells are treated with the DNA-damaging agent methyl methanesulfonate (MMS), we carried out two-dimensional gel analyses of replication intermediates in cells synchronized by cdc10 block (in G(1)) followed by release into synchronous S phase. The results indicated that under these conditions early-firing centromeric origins were partially delayed but late-firing telomeric origins were not delayed. Replication intermediates persisted in MMS-treated cells, suggesting that replication fork movement was inhibited. These effects were dependent on the Cds1 checkpoint kinase and were abolished in cells overexpressing the Cdc25 phosphatase, suggesting a role for the Cdc2 cyclin-dependent kinase. We conclude that both partial inhibition of the firing of a subset of origins and inhibition of replication fork movement contribute to the slowing of S phase in MMS-treated fission yeast cells.
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Labit H, Perewoska I, Germe T, Hyrien O, Marheineke K. DNA replication timing is deterministic at the level of chromosomal domains but stochastic at the level of replicons in Xenopus egg extracts. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:5623-34. [PMID: 18765475 PMCID: PMC2553594 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Replication origins in Xenopus egg extracts are located at apparently random sequences but are activated in clusters that fire at different times during S phase under the control of ATR/ATM kinases. We investigated whether chromosomal domains and single sequences replicate at distinct times during S phase in egg extracts. Replication foci were found to progressively appear during early S phase and foci labelled early in one S phase colocalized with those labelled early in the next S phase. However, the distribution of these two early labels did not coincide between single origins or origin clusters on single DNA fibres. The 4 Mb Xenopus rDNA repeat domain was found to replicate later than the rest of the genome and to have a more nuclease-resistant chromatin structure. Replication initiated more frequently in the transcription unit than in the intergenic spacer. These results suggest for the first time that in this embryonic system, where transcription does not occur, replication timing is deterministic at the scale of large chromatin domains (1–5 Mb) but stochastic at the scale of replicons (10 kb) and replicon clusters (50–100 kb).
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- Hélène Labit
- Ecole Normale Supérieure, Biology Department, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, CNRS UMR 8541, 46, rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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Goldar A, Labit H, Marheineke K, Hyrien O. A dynamic stochastic model for DNA replication initiation in early embryos. PLoS One 2008; 3:e2919. [PMID: 18682801 PMCID: PMC2488399 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2008] [Accepted: 07/16/2008] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Background Eukaryotic cells seem unable to monitor replication completion during normal S phase, yet must ensure a reliable replication completion time. This is an acute problem in early Xenopus embryos since DNA replication origins are located and activated stochastically, leading to the random completion problem. DNA combing, kinetic modelling and other studies using Xenopus egg extracts have suggested that potential origins are much more abundant than actual initiation events and that the time-dependent rate of initiation, I(t), markedly increases through S phase to ensure the rapid completion of unreplicated gaps and a narrow distribution of completion times. However, the molecular mechanism that underlies this increase has remained obscure. Methodology/Principal Findings Using both previous and novel DNA combing data we have confirmed that I(t) increases through S phase but have also established that it progressively decreases before the end of S phase. To explore plausible biochemical scenarios that might explain these features, we have performed comparisons between numerical simulations and DNA combing data. Several simple models were tested: i) recycling of a limiting replication fork component from completed replicons; ii) time-dependent increase in origin efficiency; iii) time-dependent increase in availability of an initially limiting factor, e.g. by nuclear import. None of these potential mechanisms could on its own account for the data. We propose a model that combines time-dependent changes in availability of a replication factor and a fork-density dependent affinity of this factor for potential origins. This novel model quantitatively and robustly accounted for the observed changes in initiation rate and fork density. Conclusions/Significance This work provides a refined temporal profile of replication initiation rates and a robust, dynamic model that quantitatively explains replication origin usage during early embryonic S phase. These results have significant implications for the organisation of replication origins in higher eukaryotes.
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- Arach Goldar
- Service de Biologie Intégrative et de Génétique Moléculaire, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- * E-mail: (AG); (OH)
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS UMR 8541, Paris, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS UMR 8541, Paris, France
- * E-mail: (AG); (OH)
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In Xenopus egg extracts, DNA replication initiates preferentially at or near asymmetric AT sequences. Mol Cell Biol 2008; 28:5265-74. [PMID: 18573882 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00181-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Previous observations led to the conclusion that in Xenopus eggs and during early development, DNA replication initiates at regular intervals but with no apparent sequence specificity. Conversely, here, we present evidence for site-specific DNA replication origins in Xenopus egg extracts. Using lambda DNA, we show that DNA replication origins are activated in clusters in regions that contain closely spaced adenine or thymine asymmetric tracks used as preferential initiation sites. In agreement with these data, AT-rich asymmetric sequences added as competitors preferentially recruit origin recognition complexes and inhibit sperm chromatin replication by increasing interorigin spacing. We also show that the assembly of a transcription complex favors origin activity at the corresponding site without necessarily eliminating the other origins. Thus, although Xenopus eggs have the ability to replicate any kind of DNA, AT-rich domains or transcription factors favor the selection of DNA replication origins without increasing the overall efficiency of DNA synthesis. These results suggest that asymmetric AT-rich regions might be default elements that favor the selection of a DNA replication origin in a transcriptionally silent complex, whereas other epigenetic elements linked to the organization of domains for transcription may have further evolved over this basal layer of regulation.
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Tolentino JH, Burke TJ, Mukhopadhyay S, McGregor WG, Basu AK. Inhibition of DNA replication fork progression and mutagenic potential of 1, N6-ethenoadenine and 8-oxoguanine in human cell extracts. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:1300-8. [PMID: 18184697 PMCID: PMC2275085 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm1157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2007] [Revised: 11/11/2007] [Accepted: 12/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Comparative mutagenesis of 1,N(6)-ethenoadenine (epsilonA) and 8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG), two endogenous DNA lesions that are also formed by exogenous DNA damaging agents, have been evaluated in HeLa and xeroderma pigmentosum variant (XPV) cell extracts. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of the duplex M13mp2SV vector containing these lesions established that there was significant inhibition of replication fork movement past epsilonA, whereas 8-oxoG caused only minor stalling of fork progression. In extracts of HeLa cells, epsilonA was weakly mutagenic inducing all three base substitutions in approximately equal frequency, whereas 8-oxoG was 10-fold more mutagenic inducing primarily G-->T transversions. These data suggest that 8-oxoG is a miscoding lesion that presents a minimal, if any, block to DNA replication in human cells. We hypothesized that bypass of epsilonA proceeded principally by an error-free mechanism in which the undamaged strand was used as a template, since this lesion strongly blocked fork progression. To examine this, we determined the sequence of replication products derived from templates in which a G was placed across from the epsilonA. Consistent with our hypothesis, 93% of the progeny were derived from replication of the undamaged strand. When translesion synthesis occurred, epsilonA-->T mutations increased 3-fold in products derived from the mismatched epsilonA: G construct compared with those derived from the epsilonA: T construct. More efficient repair of epsilonA in the epsilonA: T construct may have been responsible for lower mutation frequency. Primer extension studies with purified pol eta have shown that this polymerase is highly error-prone when bypassing epsilonA. To examine if pol eta is the primary mutagenic translesion polymerase in human cells, we determined the lesion bypass characteristics of extracts derived from XPV cells, which lack this polymerase. The epsilonA: T construct induced epsilonA-->G and epsilonA-->C mutant frequencies that were approximately the same as those observed using the HeLa extracts. However, epsilonA-->T events were increased 5-fold relative to HeLa extracts. These data support a model in which pol eta-mediated translesion synthesis past this adduct is error-free in the context of semiconservative replication in the presence of fidelity factors such as PCNA.
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- Joel H. Tolentino
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269, CT and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville KY 40202, KY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269, CT and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville KY 40202, KY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269, CT and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville KY 40202, KY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269, CT and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville KY 40202, KY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269, CT and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville KY 40202, KY, USA
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Fierro-Fernández M, Hernández P, Krimer DB, Schvartzman JB. Replication fork reversal occurs spontaneously after digestion but is constrained in supercoiled domains. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:18190-18196. [PMID: 17456472 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m701559200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Replication fork reversal was investigated in undigested and linearized replication intermediates of bacterial DNA plasmids containing a stalled fork. Two-dimensional agarose gel electrophoresis, a branch migration and extrusion assay, electron microscopy, and DNA-psoralen cross-linking were used to show that extensive replication fork reversal and extrusion of the nascent-nascent duplex occurs spontaneously after DNA nicking and restriction enzyme digestion but that fork retreat is severely limited in covalently closed supercoiled domains.
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- Marta Fierro-Fernández
- Departamento de Biología Celular y del Desarrollo, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Celular y del Desarrollo, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Celular y del Desarrollo, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Celular y del Desarrollo, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Kiewiet R, Bron S, de Jonge K, Venema G, Seegers JFML. Theta replication of the lactococcal plasmid pWVO2. Mol Microbiol 2006; 10:319-327. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb01958.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Regulation of DNA replication is critical for accurate and timely dissemination of genomic material to daughter cells. The cell uses a variety of mechanisms to control this aspect of the cell cycle. There are various determinants of origin identification, as well as a large number of proteins required to load replication complexes at these defined genomic regions. A pre-Replication Complex (pre-RC) associates with origins in the G1 phase. This complex includes the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC), which serves to recognize origins, the putative helicase MCM2-7, and other factors important for complex assembly. Following pre-RC loading, a pre-Initiation Complex (pre-IC) builds upon the helicase with factors required for eventual loading of replicative polymerases. The chromatin association of these two complexes is temporally distinct, with pre-RC being inhibited, and pre-IC being activated by cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks). This regulation is the basis for replication licensing, which allows replication to occur at a specific time once, and only once, per cell cycle. By preventing extra rounds of replication within a cell cycle, or by ensuring the cell cycle cannot progress until the environmental and intracellular conditions are most optimal, cells are able to carry out a successful replication cycle with minimal mutations.
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- Jamie K Teer
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Baltin J, Leist S, Odronitz F, Wollscheid HP, Baack M, Kapitza T, Schaarschmidt D, Knippers R. DNA replication in protein extracts from human cells requires ORC and Mcm proteins. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:12428-35. [PMID: 16537544 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m510758200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We used protein extracts from proliferating human HeLa cells to support plasmid DNA replication in vitro. An extract with soluble nuclear proteins contains the major replicative chain elongation functions, whereas a high salt extract from isolated nuclei contains the proteins for initiation. Among the initiator proteins active in vitro are the origin recognition complex (ORC) and Mcm proteins. Recombinant Orc1 protein stimulates in vitro replication presumably in place of endogenous Orc1 that is known to be present in suboptimal amounts in HeLa cell nuclei. Partially purified endogenous ORC, but not recombinant ORC, is able to rescue immunodepleted nuclear extracts. Plasmid replication in the in vitro replication system is slow and of limited efficiency but robust enough to serve as a basis to investigate the formation of functional pre-replication complexes under biochemically defined conditions.
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- Jens Baltin
- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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Meister P, Taddei A, Vernis L, Poidevin M, Gasser SM, Baldacci G. Temporal separation of replication and recombination requires the intra-S checkpoint. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 168:537-44. [PMID: 15716375 PMCID: PMC2171758 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200410006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In response to DNA damage and replication pausing, eukaryotes activate checkpoint pathways that prevent genomic instability by coordinating cell cycle progression with DNA repair. The intra-S-phase checkpoint has been proposed to protect stalled replication forks from pathological rearrangements that could result from unscheduled recombination. On the other hand, recombination may be needed to cope with either stalled forks or double-strand breaks resulting from hydroxyurea treatment. We have exploited fission yeast to elucidate the relationship between replication fork stalling, loading of replication and recombination proteins onto DNA, and the intra-S checkpoint. Here, we show that a functional recombination machinery is not essential for recovery from replication fork arrest and instead can lead to nonfunctional fork structures. We find that Rad22-containing foci are rare in S-phase cells, but peak in G2 phase cells after a perturbed S phase. Importantly, we find that the intra-S checkpoint is necessary to avoid aberrant strand-exchange events during a hydroxyurea block.
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- Peter Meister
- CNRS UMR2027, Institut Curie, Centre Universitaire, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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After 40 years of searching for the eukaryotic replicator sequence, it is time to abandon the concept of 'the' replicator as a single genetic entity. Here I propose a 'relaxed replicon model' in which a positive initiator-replicator interaction is facilitated by a combination of several complex features of chromatin. An important question for the future is whether the positions of replication origins are simply a passive result of local chromatin structure or are actively localized to coordinate replication with other chromosomal activities.
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- David M Gilbert
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NewYork 13210, USA.
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- Isabelle A Lucas
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Vashee S, Cvetic C, Lu W, Simancek P, Kelly TJ, Walter JC. Sequence-independent DNA binding and replication initiation by the human origin recognition complex. Genes Dev 2003; 17:1894-908. [PMID: 12897055 PMCID: PMC196240 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1084203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 237] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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We report that a highly purified human origin recognition complex (HsORC) has intrinsic DNA-binding activity, and that this activity is modestly stimulated by ATP. HsORC binds preferentially to synthetic AT-rich polydeoxynucleotides, but does not effectively discriminate between natural DNA fragments that contain known human origins and control fragments. The complex fully restores DNA replication to ORC-depleted Xenopus egg extracts, providing strong evidence for its initiator function. Strikingly, HsORC stimulates initiation from any DNA sequence, and it does not preferentially replicate DNA containing human origin sequences. These data provide a biochemical explanation for the observation that in metazoans, initiation of DNA replication often occurs in a seemingly random pattern, and they have important implications for the nature of human origins of DNA replication.
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- Sanjay Vashee
- Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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Keller C, Hyrien O, Knippers R, Krude T. Site-specific and temporally controlled initiation of DNA replication in a human cell-free system. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:2114-23. [PMID: 12000831 PMCID: PMC115293 DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.10.2114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2002] [Revised: 03/26/2002] [Accepted: 03/26/2002] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We have recently established a cell-free system from human cells that initiates semi-conservative DNA replication in nuclei isolated from cells which are synchronised in late G1 phase of the cell division cycle. We now investigate origin specificity of initiation using this system. New DNA replication foci are established upon incubation of late G1 phase nuclei in a cytosolic extract from proliferating human cells. The intranuclear sites of replication foci initiated in vitro coincide with the sites of earliest replicating DNA sequences, where DNA replication had been initiated in these nuclei in vivo upon entry into S phase of the previous cell cycle. In contrast, intranuclear sites that replicate later in S phase in vivo do not initiate in vitro. DNA replication initiates in this cell-free system site-specifically at the lamin B2 DNA replication origin, which is also activated in vivo upon release of mimosine-arrested late G1 phase cells into early S phase. In contrast, in the later replicating ribosomal DNA locus (rDNA) we neither detected replicating rDNA in the human in vitro initiation system nor upon entry of intact mimosine-arrested cells into S phase in vivo. As a control, replicating rDNA was detected in vivo after progression into mid S phase. These data indicate that early origin activity is faithfully recapitulated in the in vitro system and that late origins are not activated under these conditions, suggesting that early and late origins may be subject to different mechanisms of control.
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- Christian Keller
- Department of Biology, Universität Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany
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Lucas I, Germe T, Chevrier-Miller M, Hyrien O. Topoisomerase II can unlink replicating DNA by precatenane removal. EMBO J 2001; 20:6509-19. [PMID: 11707421 PMCID: PMC125741 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.22.6509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We have analysed the role of topoisomerase II (topo II) in plasmid DNA replication in Xenopus egg extracts, using specific inhibitors and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of replication products. Topo II is dispensable for nuclear assembly and complete replication of plasmid DNA but is required for plasmid unlinking. Extensive unlinking can occur in the absence of mitosis. Replication intermediates generated in the absence of topo II activity have an increased positive superhelical stress (+DeltaLk), suggesting a deficiency in precatenane removal. The geometry of replication intermediates cut by poisoning topo II with etoposide and purified by virtue of their covalent attachment to topo II subunits demonstrates that topo II acts behind the forks at all stages of elongation. These results provide direct evidence for unlinking replicating DNA by precatenane removal and reveal a division of labour between topo I and topo II in this eukaryotic system. We discuss the role of chromatin structure in driving DNA unlinking during S phase.
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- Isabelle Lucas
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d’Ulm, F-75230 Paris Cedex 05, France
Present address: University of Washington, Department of Genetics, Seattle, WA 98165, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d’Ulm, F-75230 Paris Cedex 05, France
Present address: University of Washington, Department of Genetics, Seattle, WA 98165, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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Weier HU. DNA fiber mapping techniques for the assembly of high-resolution physical maps. J Histochem Cytochem 2001; 49:939-48. [PMID: 11457922 DOI: 10.1177/002215540104900802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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High-resolution physical maps are indispensable for directed sequencing projects or the finishing stages of shotgun sequencing projects. These maps are also critical for the positional cloning of disease genes and genetic elements that regulate gene expression. Typically, physical maps are based on ordered sets of large insert DNA clones from cosmid, P1/PAC/BAC, or yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) libraries. Recent technical developments provide detailed information about overlaps or gaps between clones and precisely locate the position of sequence tagged sites or expressed sequences, and thus support efforts to determine the complete sequence of the human genome and model organisms. Assembly of physical maps is greatly facilitated by hybridization of non-isotopically labeled DNA probes onto DNA molecules that were released from interphase cell nuclei or recombinant DNA clones, stretched to some extent and then immobilized on a solid support. The bound DNA, collectively called "DNA fibers," may consist of single DNA molecules in some experiments or bundles of chromatin fibers in others. Once released from the interphase nuclei, the DNA fibers become more accessible to probes and detection reagents. Hybridization efficiency is therefore increased, allowing the detection of DNA targets as small as a few hundred base pairs. This review summarizes different approaches to DNA fiber mapping and discusses the detection sensitivity and mapping accuracy as well as recent achievements in mapping expressed sequence tags and DNA replication sites.
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- H U Weier
- Department of Subcellular Structure, Life Sciences Division, University of California, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
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- J J Blow
- CRC Chromosome Replication Research Group, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK.
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Marheineke K, Hyrien O. Aphidicolin triggers a block to replication origin firing in Xenopus egg extracts. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:17092-100. [PMID: 11279043 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m100271200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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DNA replication origins are located at random with respect to DNA sequence in Xenopus early embryos and on DNA replicated in Xenopus egg extracts. We have recently shown that origins fire throughout the S phase in Xenopus egg extracts. To study the temporal regulation of origin firing, we have analyzed origin activation in sperm nuclei treated with the DNA polymerase inhibitor aphidicolin. Sperm chromatin was incubated in Xenopus egg extracts in the presence of aphidicolin and transferred to a fresh extract, and digoxigenin-dUTP and biotin-dUTP were added at various times after aphidicolin release to selectively label early and late replicating DNA. Molecular combing analysis of single DNA fibers showed that only a fraction of potential origins were able to initiate in the presence of aphidicolin. After release from aphidicolin, the remaining origins fired asynchronously throughout the S phase. Therefore, initiation during the S phase depends on the normal progression of replication forks assembled at earlier activated origins. Caffeine, an inhibitor of the checkpoint kinases ATR and ATM, did not relieve the aphidicolin-induced block to origin firing. We conclude that a caffeine-insensitive intra-S phase checkpoint regulates origin activation when DNA synthesis is inhibited in Xenopus egg extracts.
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- K Marheineke
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Blow JJ, Gillespie PJ, Francis D, Jackson DA. Replication origins in Xenopus egg extract Are 5-15 kilobases apart and are activated in clusters that fire at different times. J Cell Biol 2001; 152:15-25. [PMID: 11149917 PMCID: PMC2193667 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.152.1.15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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When Xenopus eggs and egg extracts replicate DNA, replication origins are positioned randomly with respect to DNA sequence. However, a completely random distribution of origins would generate some unacceptably large interorigin distances. We have investigated the distribution of replication origins in Xenopus sperm nuclei replicating in Xenopus egg extract. Replicating DNA was labeled with [(3)H]thymidine or bromodeoxyuridine and the geometry of labeled sites on spread DNA was examined. Most origins were spaced 5-15 kb apart. This regular distribution provides an explanation for how complete chromosome replication can be ensured although origins are positioned randomly with respect to DNA sequence. Origins were grouped into small clusters (typically containing 5-10 replicons) that fired at approximately the same time, with different clusters being activated at different times in S phase. This suggests that a temporal program of origin firing similar to that seen in somatic cells also exists in the Xenopus embryo. When the quantity of origin recognition complexes (ORCs) on the chromatin was restricted, the average interorigin distance increased, and the number of origins in each cluster decreased. This suggests that the binding of ORCs to chromatin determines the regular spacing of origins in this system.
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- J J Blow
- Cancer Research Campaign, Chromosome Replication Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, United Kingdom.
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Xenopus egg extracts initiate replication at specific origin sites within mammalian G1-phase nuclei. Similarly, S-phase extracts from Saccharomyces cerevisiae initiate DNA replication within yeast nuclei at specific yeast origin sequences. Here we show that Xenopus egg extracts can initiate DNA replication within G1-phase yeast nuclei but do not recognize yeast origin sequences. When G1-phase yeast nuclei were introduced into Xenopus egg extract, semiconservative, aphidicolin-sensitive DNA synthesis was induced after a brief lag period and was restricted to a single round of replication. The specificity of initiation within the yeast 2 microm plasmid as well as in the vicinity of the chromosomal origin ARS1 was evaluated by neutral two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of replication intermediates. At both locations, replication was found to initiate outside of the ARS element. Manipulation of both cis- and trans-acting elements in the yeast genome before introduction of nuclei into Xenopus egg extract may provide a system with which to elucidate the requirements for vertebrate origin recognition.
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- J R Wu
- Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Shanghai Research Center of Life Science, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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Herrick J, Stanislawski P, Hyrien O, Bensimon A. Replication fork density increases during DNA synthesis in X. laevis egg extracts. J Mol Biol 2000; 300:1133-42. [PMID: 10903859 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Duplication of the eukaryotic genome depends on the temporal and spatial organization of DNA replication during the cell cycle. To investigate the genomic organization of DNA replication in a higher eukaryote, multiple origins of replication must be simultaneously analyzed over large regions of the genome as DNA synthesis progresses through S phase of the cell cycle. We have employed a novel technique that allows for the quantitative analysis of DNA replication on a genome wide basis. The technique involves stretching and aligning individual DNA molecules on a glass surface. As a model system, Xenopus laevis egg extract was used to differentially label sperm chromatin at successive time points after the start of DNA synthesis. The differentially labeled DNA allows earlier and later replicating sequences to be distinguished, and hence the sites of DNA synthesis at any given time can be directly visualized. Genomic DNA was extracted, and measurements made on the linearized molecules provided a comprehensive analysis of the spatial and temporal organization of DNA replication in the X. laevis in vitro replication system. It was found that: (i) DNA synthesis initiates asynchronously at irregular intervals but continuously as DNA replication advances; and (ii) that the frequency of initiation (the number of activated origins per kilobase) increases as DNA synthesis nears completion. The implications of these findings for the regulation of DNA replication in early embryos is discussed.
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- J Herrick
- Institut Pasteur, Laboratoire de Biophysique de l'ADN, 25-28 rue du Dr. Roux, Paris Cedex 15, 75425, France
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Plasmid DNA incubated in interphase Xenopus egg extracts is normally assembled into chromatin and then into synthetic nuclei which undergo one round of regulated replication. During a study of restriction endonuclease cut plasmid replication intermediates (RIs) by the Brewer-Fangman 2D gel electrophoresis technique, we have observed the formation of a strong spike of X-shaped DNA molecules in extracts that otherwise yield very little or no RIs. Formation of these joint molecules is also efficiently induced in replication-competent extracts upon inhibition of replication fork progression by aphidicolin. Although their electrophoretic properties are quite similar to those of Holliday junctions, 2D gels of doubly cut plasmids show that these junctions can link two plasmid molecules at any pair of DNA sequences, with no regard for sequence homology at the branch points. Neutral-neutral-alkaline 3D gels show that the junctions only contain single strands of parental size and no recombinant strands. A hemicatenane, in which one strand of a duplex is wound around one strand of another duplex, is the most likely structure to account for these observations. The mechanism of formation of these novel joint DNA molecules and their biological implications are discussed.
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- I Lucas
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Santamaría D, Viguera E, Martínez-Robles ML, Hyrien O, Hernández P, Krimer DB, Schvartzman JB. Bi-directional replication and random termination. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:2099-107. [PMID: 10773078 PMCID: PMC105368 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.10.2099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Two-dimensional (2D) agarose gel electrophoresis was used to study termination of DNA replication in a shuttle vector, YRp7', when it replicated in Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Xenopus egg extracts. In E. coli, the 2D gel patterns obtained were consistent with uni-directional replication initiated at a specific site, the ColE1 origin. In consequence, termination also occurred precisely at the ColE1 origin. In Xenopus egg extracts, the particular shape of the bubble arc as well as the triangular smear detected to the left of the simple-Y pattern indicated random initiation and termination. In S.cerevisiae, initiation occurred at the ARS1 origin and replication proceeded in a bi-directional manner. However, termination did not always occur at a specific site 180 degrees across from the origin, but almost all along the south hemisphere of the plasmid. Inversion, deletion or replacement of DNA sequences located throughout this hemisphere did not eliminate random termination. Analysis of the replication intermediates of another yeast plasmid bearing a different origin, ARS305, also exhibited random termination. We propose that the random termination events observed in S.cerevisiae could be due to an asynchronous departure of both forks from the bi-directional origin in addition to differences in the rate of fork progression. These observations could be extended to all bi-directional origins.
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- D Santamaría
- Departamento de Biología Celular y del Desarrollo, CIB (CSIC), Velázquez 144, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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Walter J, Newport J. Initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication: origin unwinding and sequential chromatin association of Cdc45, RPA, and DNA polymerase alpha. Mol Cell 2000; 5:617-27. [PMID: 10882098 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(00)80241-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 304] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We report that a plasmid replicating in Xenopus egg extracts becomes negatively supercoiled during replication initiation. Supercoiling requires the initiation factor Cdc45, as well as the single-stranded DNA-binding protein RPA, and therefore likely represents origin unwinding. When unwinding is prevented, Cdc45 binds to chromatin whereas DNA polymerase alpha does not, indicating that Cdc45, RPA, and DNA polymerase alpha bind chromatin sequentially at the G1/S transition. Whereas the extent of origin unwinding is normally limited, it increases dramatically when DNA polymerase alpha is inhibited, indicating that the helicase that unwinds DNA during initiation can become uncoupled from the replication fork. We discuss the implications of these results for the location of replication start sites relative to the prereplication complex.
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- J Walter
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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Lucas I, Chevrier-Miller M, Sogo JM, Hyrien O. Mechanisms ensuring rapid and complete DNA replication despite random initiation in Xenopus early embryos. J Mol Biol 2000; 296:769-86. [PMID: 10677280 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Chromosome replication initiates without sequence specificity at average intervals of approximately 10 kb during the rapid cell cycles of early Xenopus embryos. If the distribution of origins were random, some inter-origin intervals would be too long to be fully replicated before the end of S phase. To investigate what ensures rapid completion of DNA replication, we have examined the replication intermediates of plasmids of various sizes (5.3-42.2 kbp) in Xenopus egg extracts by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and electron microscopy. We confirm that replication initiates without sequence specificity on all plasmids. We demonstrate for the first time that multiple initiation events occur on large plasmids, but not on small (<10 kb) plasmids, at average intervals of approximately 10 kb. Origin interference may prevent multiple initiation events on small plasmids. Multiple initiation events are neither synchronous nor regularly spaced. Bubble density is higher on later than on earlier replication intermediates, showing that initiation frequency increases throughout S phase, speeding up replication of late intermediates. We suggest that potential origins are abundant and randomly distributed, but that the increase of initiation frequency during S phase, and possibly origin interference, regulate origin activation to ensure rapid completion of replication.
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- I Lucas
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, Paris Cedex 05, 75230, France
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Gillespie PJ, Blow JJ. Nucleoplasmin-mediated chromatin remodelling is required for Xenopus sperm nuclei to become licensed for DNA replication. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:472-80. [PMID: 10606645 PMCID: PMC102529 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.2.472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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During late mitosis and early G(1), a series of proteins are assembled onto replication origins, resulting in them becoming 'licensed' for replication in the subsequent S phase. Four factors have so far been identified that are required for chromatin to become functionally licensed: ORC (the origin recognition complex) and Cdc6, plus the two components of the replication licensing system RLF-M and RLF-B. Here we describe the first steps of a systematic fractionation of Xenopus egg extracts to identify all the components necessary for the assembly of licensed replication origins on Xenopus sperm nuclei (the physiological DNA substrate in this system). We have purified a new activity essential for this reaction, and have shown that it is nucleoplasmin, a previously known chromatin remodelling protein. Nucleoplasmin decondenses the sperm chromatin by removing protamines, and is required at the earliest known step in origin assembly to allow ORC to bind to the DNA. Sperm nuclei can be licensed by a combination of nucleoplasmin, RLF-M and a partially purified fraction that contains ORC, Cdc6 and RLF-B. This suggests that we are likely to have identified most of the proteins required for this assembly reaction.
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- P J Gillespie
- CRC Chromosome Replication Research Group, Division of Gene Regulation,Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK
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Liu L, Wang S. Direct competition Between mimosine and deoxythymidine triphosphate at the site of DNA replication. CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN-CHINESE 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03183486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Maric C, Levacher B, Hyrien O. Developmental regulation of replication fork pausing in Xenopus laevis ribosomal RNA genes. J Mol Biol 1999; 291:775-88. [PMID: 10452888 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In early Xenopus embryos, replication forks move along the rRNA genes (rDNA) at a uniform rate and terminate at multiple, apparently random sites. In contrast, a polar replication fork barrier (RFB) is found at the 3' end of the rRNA genes in Xenopus cultured cells. We have now analysed the replication intermediates of Xenopus rDNA from a wide range of developmental stages by 2D gel electrophoresis. Surprisingly, up to 15 different replication fork pausing sites (RFPs) simultaneously appear in the rDNA at the midgastrula stage, when rRNA transcription abruptly increases. They disappear during the neurula stage, except for a polar RFP at the 3' end of Xthe transcription unit, which persists to the tadpole stage. The latter RFP is found at the same location as the RFB in cultured cells; however the arrest of replication forks at this RFP is not absolute, since termination occurs at multiple positions throughout the rDNA repeat. The efficiency of fork arrest at this RFP remains constant from midgastrula to early tadpole, and decreases around hatching. The transient appearance of multiple RFPs at midgastrula may reflect some chromatin remodeling associated with developmental activation of rRNA transcription.
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- C Maric
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, Paris Cedex 05, 75230, France
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Okuhara K, Ohta K, Seo H, Shioda M, Yamada T, Tanaka Y, Dohmae N, Seyama Y, Shibata T, Murofushi H. A DNA unwinding factor involved in DNA replication in cell-free extracts of Xenopus eggs. Curr Biol 1999; 9:341-50. [PMID: 10209116 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(99)80160-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Alteration of chromatin structure is a key step in various aspects of DNA metabolism. DNA unwinding factors such as the high mobility group (HMG) proteins are thought to play a general role in controlling chromatin structure and a specific role in controlling DNA replication. For instance, in the in vitro simian virus 40 replication system, minichromosomes containing HMG-17 replicate more efficiently than those without it, suggesting that HMG-17 enhances the rate of replication of a chromatin template by unfolding the higher-order chromatin structure. At present, however, only limited data suggest an involvement of DNA unwinding factors in DNA replication. RESULTS We purified from Xenopus eggs a novel heterodimeric factor, termed DNA unwinding factor (DUF), that consists of 87 kDa and 140 kDa polypeptides. DUF unwinds closed-circular duplex DNA in the presence of topoisomerase I, but it does not possess a DNA gyrase activity: it does not introduce negative supercoils into DNA at the expense of ATP hydrolysis. Cloning and sequencing of the cDNAs encoding the two polypeptides revealed that the 87 kDa polypeptide is homologous to a mammalian HMG protein, T160/structure-specific recognition protein. The 140 kDa polypeptide is homologous to yeast Cdc68, a protein that controls the expression of several genes during the G1 phase of the cell cycle by modulating chromatin structure. Immunodepletion of DUF from Xenopus egg extracts drastically reduced the ability of the extract to replicate exogenously added sperm chromatin or plasmid DNA. CONCLUSIONS We propose that DUF plays a role in DNA replication in Xenopus egg extracts.
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- K Okuhara
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The Institute of Physicaland Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako, Saitama, Japan.
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