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Wegrzyn K, Oliwa M, Nowacka M, Zabrocka E, Bury K, Purzycki P, Czaplewska P, Pipka J, Giraldo R, Konieczny I. Rep protein accommodates together dsDNA and ssDNA which enables a loop-back mechanism to plasmid DNA replication initiation. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:10551-10567. [PMID: 37713613 PMCID: PMC10602881 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Revised: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 09/17/2023] Open
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For DNA replication initiation in Bacteria, replication initiation proteins bind to double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) and interact with single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) at the replication origin. The structural-functional relationship of the nucleoprotein complex involving initiator proteins is still elusive and different models are proposed. In this work, based on crosslinking combined with mass spectrometry (MS), the analysis of mutant proteins and crystal structures, we defined amino acid residues essential for the interaction between plasmid Rep proteins, TrfA and RepE, and ssDNA. This interaction and Rep binding to dsDNA could not be provided in trans, and both are important for dsDNA melting at DNA unwinding element (DUE). We solved two crystal structures of RepE: one in a complex with ssDNA DUE, and another with both ssDNA DUE and dsDNA containing RepE-specific binding sites (iterons). The amino acid residues involved in interaction with ssDNA are located in the WH1 domain in stand β1, helices α1 and α2 and in the WH2 domain in loops preceding strands β1' and β2' and in these strands. It is on the opposite side compared to RepE dsDNA-recognition interface. Our data provide evidence for a loop-back mechanism through which the plasmid replication initiator molecule accommodates together dsDNA and ssDNA.
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- Katarzyna Wegrzyn
- Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, University of Gdansk, Abrahama 58, 80-307 Gdansk, Poland
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- Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, University of Gdansk, Abrahama 58, 80-307 Gdansk, Poland
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- Laboratory of Protein Structure, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Księcia Trojdena 4, 02-109 Warsaw, Poland
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- Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, University of Gdansk, Abrahama 58, 80-307 Gdansk, Poland
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- Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, University of Gdansk, Abrahama 58, 80-307 Gdansk, Poland
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- Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, University of Gdansk, Abrahama 58, 80-307 Gdansk, Poland
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- Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, University of Gdansk, Abrahama 58, 80-307 Gdansk, Poland
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- Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, University of Gdansk, Abrahama 58, 80-307 Gdansk, Poland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas – CSIC, E28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, University of Gdansk, Abrahama 58, 80-307 Gdansk, Poland
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Richardson TT, Stevens D, Pelliciari S, Harran O, Sperlea T, Murray H. Identification of a basal system for unwinding a bacterial chromosome origin. EMBO J 2019; 38:e101649. [PMID: 31267560 PMCID: PMC6669920 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2019101649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Revised: 06/06/2019] [Accepted: 06/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Genome duplication is essential for cell proliferation, and DNA synthesis is generally initiated by dedicated replication proteins at specific loci termed origins. In bacteria, the master initiator DnaA binds the chromosome origin (oriC) and unwinds the DNA duplex to permit helicase loading. However, despite decades of research it remained unclear how the information encoded within oriC guides DnaA-dependent strand separation. To address this fundamental question, we took a systematic genetic approach in vivo and identified the core set of essential sequence elements within the Bacillus subtilis chromosome origin unwinding region. Using this information, we then show in vitro that the minimal replication origin sequence elements are necessary and sufficient to promote the mechanical functions of DNA duplex unwinding by DnaA. Because the basal DNA unwinding system characterized here appears to be conserved throughout the bacterial domain, this discovery provides a framework for understanding oriC architecture, activity, regulation and diversity.
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- Tomas T Richardson
- Centre for Bacterial Cell BiologyInstitute for Cell and Molecular BiosciencesNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell BiologyInstitute for Cell and Molecular BiosciencesNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell BiologyInstitute for Cell and Molecular BiosciencesNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell BiologyInstitute for Cell and Molecular BiosciencesNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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- Chromosome Biology GroupLOEWE Center for Synthetic MicrobiologySYNMIKROPhilipps‐Universität MarburgMarburgGermany
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell BiologyInstitute for Cell and Molecular BiosciencesNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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Makowski Ł, Donczew R, Weigel C, Zawilak-Pawlik A, Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J. Initiation of Chromosomal Replication in Predatory Bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1898. [PMID: 27965633 PMCID: PMC5124646 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 11/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a small Gram-negative predatory bacterium that attacks other Gram-negative bacteria, including many animal, human, and plant pathogens. This bacterium exhibits a peculiar biphasic life cycle during which two different types of cells are produced: non-replicating highly motile cells (the free-living phase) and replicating cells (the intracellular-growth phase). The process of chromosomal replication in B. bacteriovorus must therefore be temporally and spatially regulated to ensure that it is coordinated with cell differentiation and cell cycle progression. Recently, B. bacteriovorus has received considerable research interest due to its intriguing life cycle and great potential as a prospective antimicrobial agent. Although, we know that chromosomal replication in bacteria is mainly regulated at the initiation step, no data exists about this process in B. bacteriovorus. We report the first characterization of key elements of initiation of chromosomal replication - DnaA protein and oriC region from the predatory bacterium, B. bacteriovorus. In vitro studies using different approaches demonstrate that the B. bacteriovorus oriC (BdoriC) is specifically bound and unwound by the DnaA protein. Sequence comparison of the DnaA-binding sites enabled us to propose a consensus sequence for the B. bacteriovorus DnaA box [5'-NN(A/T)TCCACA-3']. Surprisingly, in vitro analysis revealed that BdoriC is also bound and unwound by the host DnaA proteins (relatively distantly related from B. bacteriovorus). We compared the architecture of the DnaA-oriC complexes (orisomes) in homologous (oriC and DnaA from B. bacteriovorus) and heterologous (BdoriC and DnaA from prey, Escherichia coli or Pseudomonas aeruginosa) systems. This work provides important new entry points toward improving our understanding of the initiation of chromosomal replication in this predatory bacterium.
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- Łukasz Makowski
- Department of Microbiology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy – Polish Academy of SciencesWrocław, Poland
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- Department of Microbiology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy – Polish Academy of SciencesWrocław, Poland
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- Department of Microbiology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy – Polish Academy of SciencesWrocław, Poland
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- Department of Microbiology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy – Polish Academy of SciencesWrocław, Poland
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of WrocławWrocław, Poland
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Jha JK, Ramachandran R, Chattoraj DK. Opening the Strands of Replication Origins-Still an Open Question. Front Mol Biosci 2016; 3:62. [PMID: 27747216 PMCID: PMC5043065 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2016.00062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2016] [Accepted: 09/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The local separation of duplex DNA strands (strand opening) is necessary for initiating basic transactions on DNA such as transcription, replication, and homologous recombination. Strand opening is commonly a stage at which these processes are regulated. Many different mechanisms are used to open the DNA duplex, the details of which are of great current interest. In this review, we focus on a few well-studied cases of DNA replication origin opening in bacteria. In particular, we discuss the opening of origins that support the theta (θ) mode of replication, which is used by all chromosomal origins and many extra-chromosomal elements such as plasmids and phages. Although the details of opening can vary among different origins, a common theme is binding of the initiator to multiple sites at the origin, causing stress that opens an adjacent and intrinsically unstable A+T rich region. The initiator stabilizes the opening by capturing one of the open strands. How the initiator binding energy is harnessed for strand opening remains to be understood.
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- Jyoti K Jha
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA
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The initiation of chromosomal DNA replication starts at a replication origin, which in bacteria is a discrete locus that contains DNA sequence motifs recognized by an initiator protein whose role is to assemble the replication fork machinery at this site. In bacteria with a single chromosome, DnaA is the initiator and is highly conserved in all bacteria. As an adenine nucleotide binding protein, DnaA bound to ATP is active in the assembly of a DnaA oligomer onto these sites. Other proteins modulate DnaA oligomerization via their interaction with the N-terminal region of DnaA. Following the DnaA-dependent unwinding of an AT-rich region within the replication origin, DnaA then mediates the binding of DnaB, the replicative DNA helicase, in a complex with DnaC to form an intermediate named the prepriming complex. In the formation of this intermediate, the helicase is loaded onto the unwound region within the replication origin. As DnaC bound to DnaB inhibits its activity as a DNA helicase, DnaC must dissociate to activate DnaB. Apparently, the interaction of DnaB with primase (DnaG) and primer formation leads to the release of DnaC from DnaB, which is coordinated with or followed by translocation of DnaB to the junction of the replication fork. There, DnaB is able to coordinate its activity as a DNA helicase with the cellular replicase, DNA polymerase III holoenzyme, which uses the primers made by primase for leading strand DNA synthesis.
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- S Chodavarapu
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States.
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In recent years it has become clear that complex regulatory circuits control the initiation step of DNA replication by directing the assembly of a multicomponent molecular machine (the orisome) that separates DNA strands and loads replicative helicase at oriC, the unique chromosomal origin of replication. This chapter discusses recent efforts to understand the regulated protein-DNA interactions that are responsible for properly timed initiation of chromosome replication. It reviews information about newly identified nucleotide sequence features within Escherichia coli oriC and the new structural and biochemical attributes of the bacterial initiator protein DnaA. It also discusses the coordinated mechanisms that prevent improperly timed DNA replication. Identification of the genes that encoded the initiators came from studies on temperature-sensitive, conditional-lethal mutants of E. coli, in which two DNA replication-defective phenotypes, "immediate stop" mutants and "delayed stop" mutants, were identified. The kinetics of the delayed stop mutants suggested that the defective gene products were required specifically for the initiation step of DNA synthesis, and subsequently, two genes, dnaA and dnaC, were identified. The DnaA protein is the bacterial initiator, and in E. coli, the DnaC protein is required to load replicative helicase. Regulation of DnaA accessibility to oriC, the ordered assembly and disassembly of a multi-DnaA complex at oriC, and the means by which DnaA unwinds oriC remain important questions to be answered and the chapter discusses the current state of knowledge on these topics.
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Molecular Dissection of the Essential Features of the Origin of Replication of the Second Vibrio cholerae Chromosome. mBio 2015. [PMID: 26220967 PMCID: PMC4551981 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00973-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Vibrionaceae family members are interesting models for studying DNA replication initiation, as they contain two circular chromosomes. Chromosome II (chrII) replication is governed by two evolutionarily unique yet highly conserved elements, the origin DNA sequence oriCII and the initiator protein RctB. The minimum functional region of oriCII, oriCII-min, contains multiple elements that are bound by RctB in vitro, but little is known about the specific requirements for individual elements during oriCII initiation. We utilized undirected and site-specific mutagenesis to investigate the functionality of mutant forms of oriCII-min and assessed binding to various mutant forms by RctB. Our analyses showed that deletions, point mutations, and changes in RctB target site spacing or methylation all impaired oriCII-min-based replication. RctB displayed a reduced affinity for most of the low-efficacy origins tested, although its characteristic cooperative binding was generally maintained. Mutations that removed or altered the relative positions of origin components other than RctB binding sites (e.g., AT-rich sequence, DnaA target site) also abolished replicative capacity. Comprehensive mutagenesis and deep-sequencing-based screening (OriSeq) allowed the identification of a previously uncharacterized methylated domain in oriCII that is required for origin function. Together, our results reveal the remarkable evolutionary honing of oriCII and provide new insight into the complex interplay between RctB and oriCII. The genome of the enteric pathogen Vibrio cholerae consists of two chromosomes. While the chromosome I replication origin and its cognate replication initiator protein resemble those of Escherichia coli, the factors responsible for chromosome II replication initiation display no similarity to any other known initiation systems. Here, to enhance our understanding of how this DNA sequence, oriCII, and its initiator protein, RctB, function, we used both targeted mutagenesis and a new random-mutagenesis approach (OriSeq) to finely map the oriCII structural features and sequences required for RctB-mediated DNA replication. Collectively, our findings reveal the extraordinary evolutionary honing of the architecture and motifs that constitute oriCII and reveal a new role for methylation in oriCII-based replication. Finally, our findings suggest that the OriSeq approach is likely to be widely applicable for defining critical bases in cis-acting sequences.
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Wolański M, Donczew R, Zawilak-Pawlik A, Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J. oriC-encoded instructions for the initiation of bacterial chromosome replication. Front Microbiol 2015; 5:735. [PMID: 25610430 PMCID: PMC4285127 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2014] [Accepted: 12/05/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Replication of the bacterial chromosome initiates at a single origin of replication that is called oriC. This occurs via the concerted action of numerous proteins, including DnaA, which acts as an initiator. The origin sequences vary across species, but all bacterial oriCs contain the information necessary to guide assembly of the DnaA protein complex at oriC, triggering the unwinding of DNA and the beginning of replication. The requisite information is encoded in the unique arrangement of specific sequences called DnaA boxes, which form a framework for DnaA binding and assembly. Other crucial sequences of bacterial origin include DNA unwinding element (DUE, which designates the site at which oriC melts under the influence of DnaA) and binding sites for additional proteins that positively or negatively regulate the initiation process. In this review, we summarize our current knowledge and understanding of the information encoded in bacterial origins of chromosomal replication, particularly in the context of replication initiation and its regulation. We show that oriC encoded instructions allow not only for initiation but also for precise regulation of replication initiation and coordination of chromosomal replication with the cell cycle (also in response to environmental signals). We focus on Escherichia coli, and then expand our discussion to include several other microorganisms in which additional regulatory proteins have been recently shown to be involved in coordinating replication initiation to other cellular processes (e.g., Bacillus, Caulobacter, Helicobacter, Mycobacterium, and Streptomyces). We discuss diversity of bacterial oriC regions with the main focus on roles of individual DNA recognition sequences at oriC in binding the initiator and regulatory proteins as well as the overall impact of these proteins on the formation of initiation complex.
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- Marcin Wolański
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Microbiology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Microbiology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław Wrocław, Poland ; Department of Microbiology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences Wrocław, Poland
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Rozgaja TA, Grimwade JE, Iqbal M, Czerwonka C, Vora M, Leonard AC. Two oppositely oriented arrays of low-affinity recognition sites in oriC guide progressive binding of DnaA during Escherichia coli pre-RC assembly. Mol Microbiol 2011; 82:475-88. [PMID: 21895796 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07827.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The onset of chromosomal DNA replication requires highly precise and reproducible interactions between initiator proteins and replication origins to assemble a pre-replicative complex (pre-RC) that unwinds the DNA duplex. In bacteria, initiator protein DnaA, bound to specific high- and low-affinity recognition sites within the unique oriC locus, comprises the pre-RC, but how complex assembly is choreographed to ensure precise initiation timing during the cell cycle is not well understood. In this study, we present evidence that higher-order DnaA structures are formed at oriC when DnaA monomers are closely positioned on the same face of the DNA helix by interaction with two oppositely oriented essential arrays of closely spaced low-affinity DnaA binding sites. As DnaA levels increase, peripheral high-affinity anchor sites begin cooperative loading of the arrays, which is extended by sequential binding of additional DnaA monomers resulting in growth of the complexes towards the centre of oriC. We suggest that this polarized assembly of unique DnaA oligomers within oriC plays an important role in mediating pre-RC activity and may be a feature found in all bacterial replication origins.
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- Tania A Rozgaja
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 W. University Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901, USA
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Rajewska M, Wegrzyn K, Konieczny I. AT-rich region and repeated sequences - the essential elements of replication origins of bacterial replicons. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2011; 36:408-34. [PMID: 22092310 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00300.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2011] [Accepted: 07/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Repeated sequences are commonly present in the sites for DNA replication initiation in bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic replicons. Those motifs are usually the binding places for replication initiation proteins or replication regulatory factors. In prokaryotic replication origins, the most abundant repeated sequences are DnaA boxes which are the binding sites for chromosomal replication initiation protein DnaA, iterons which bind plasmid or phage DNA replication initiators, defined motifs for site-specific DNA methylation, and 13-nucleotide-long motifs of a not too well-characterized function, which are present within a specific region of replication origin containing higher than average content of adenine and thymine residues. In this review, we specify methods allowing identification of a replication origin, basing on the localization of an AT-rich region and the arrangement of the origin's structural elements. We describe the regularity of the position and structure of the AT-rich regions in bacterial chromosomes and plasmids. The importance of 13-nucleotide-long repeats present at the AT-rich region, as well as other motifs overlapping them, was pointed out to be essential for DNA replication initiation including origin opening, helicase loading and replication complex assembly. We also summarize the role of AT-rich region repeated sequences for DNA replication regulation.
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- Magdalena Rajewska
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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Replication initiation at the Escherichia coli chromosomal origin. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2011; 15:606-13. [PMID: 21856207 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2011] [Revised: 07/20/2011] [Accepted: 07/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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To initiate DNA replication, DnaA recognizes and binds to specific sequences within the Escherichia coli chromosomal origin (oriC), and then unwinds a region within oriC. Next, DnaA interacts with DnaB helicase in loading the DnaB-DnaC complex on each separated strand. Primer formation by primase (DnaG) induces the dissociation of DnaC from DnaB, which involves the hydrolysis of ATP bound to DnaC. Recent evidence indicates that DnaC acts as a checkpoint in the transition from initiation to the elongation stage of DNA replication. Freed from DnaC, DnaB helicase unwinds the parental duplex DNA while interacting the cellular replicase, DNA polymerase III holoenzyme, and primase as it intermittently forms primers that are extended by the replicase in duplicating the chromosome.
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Bacterial origin recognition complexes direct assembly of higher-order DnaA oligomeric structures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:18479-84. [PMID: 19833870 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909472106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic initiator proteins form origin recognition complexes (ORCs) that bind to replication origins during most of the cell cycle and direct assembly of prereplication complexes (pre-RCs) before the onset of S phase. In the eubacterium Escherichia coli, there is a temporally similar nucleoprotein complex comprising the initiator protein DnaA bound to three high-affinity recognition sites in the unique origin of replication, oriC. At the time of initiation, this high-affinity DnaA-oriC complex (the bacterial ORC) accumulates additional DnaA that interacts with lower-affinity sites in oriC, forming a pre-RC. In this paper, we investigate the functional role of the bacterial ORC and examine whether it mediates low-affinity DnaA-oriC interactions during pre-RC assembly. We report that E. coli ORC is essential for DnaA occupation of low-affinity sites. The assistance given by ORC is directed primarily to proximal weak sites and requires oligomerization-proficient DnaA. We propose that in bacteria, DnaA oligomers of limited length and stability emerge from single high-affinity sites and extend toward weak sites to facilitate their loading as a key stage of prokaryotic pre-RC assembly.
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Fekete RA, Venkova-Canova T, Park K, Chattoraj DK. IHF-dependent activation of P1 plasmid origin by dnaA. Mol Microbiol 2007; 62:1739-51. [PMID: 17087773 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05479.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In bacteria, many DNA-protein interactions that initiate transcription, replication and recombination require the mediation of DNA architectural proteins such as IHF and HU. For replication initiation, plasmid P1 requires three origin binding proteins: the architectural protein HU, a plasmid-specific initiator, RepA, and the Escherichia coli chromosomal initiator, DnaA. The two initiators bind in the origin of replication to multiple sites, called iterons and DnaA boxes respectively. We show here that all five known DnaA boxes can be deleted from the plasmid origin provided the origin is extended by about 120 bp. The additional DNA provides an IHF site and most likely a weak DnaA binding site, because replacing the putative site with an authentic DnaA box enhanced plasmid replication in an IHF-dependent manner. IHF most likely brings about interactions between distally bound DnaA and RepA by bending the intervening DNA. The role of IHF in activating P1 origin by allowing DnaA binding to a weak site is reminiscent of the role the protein plays in initiating the host chromosomal replication.
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- Richard A Fekete
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255, USA
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Zawilak-PAWLIK A, Kois A, Majka J, Jakimowicz D, Smulczyk-Krawczyszyn A, Messer W, Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J. Architecture of bacterial replication initiation complexes: orisomes from four unrelated bacteria. Biochem J 2005; 389:471-81. [PMID: 15790315 PMCID: PMC1175125 DOI: 10.1042/bj20050143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Bacterial chromosome replication is mediated by single initiator protein, DnaA, that interacts specifically with multiple DnaA boxes located within the origin (oriC). We compared the architecture of the DnaA-origin complexes of evolutionarily distantly related eubacteria: two Gram-negative organisms, Escherichia coli and Helicobacter pylori, and two Gram-positive organisms, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Streptomyces coelicolor. Their origins vary in size (from approx. 200 to 1000 bp) and number of DnaA boxes (from 5 to 19). The results indicate that: (i) different DnaA proteins exhibit various affinities toward single DnaA boxes, (ii) spatial arrangement of two DnaA boxes is crucial for the H. pylori and S. coelicolor DnaA proteins, but not for E. coli and M. tuberculosis proteins, and (iii) the oriC regions are optimally adjusted to their cognate DnaA proteins. The primary functions of multiple DnaA boxes are to determine the positioning and order of assembly of the DnaA molecules. Gradual transition from the sequence-specific binding of the DnaA protein to binding through co-operative protein-protein interactions seems to be a common conserved strategy to generate oligomeric initiator complexes bound to multiple sites within the chromosomal, plasmid and virial origins.
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- Anna Zawilak-PAWLIK
- *Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Weigla 12, 53-114 Wrocław, Poland
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- *Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Weigla 12, 53-114 Wrocław, Poland
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- †Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, U.S.A
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- *Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Weigla 12, 53-114 Wrocław, Poland
- ‡John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, U.K
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- *Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Weigla 12, 53-114 Wrocław, Poland
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- §Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin-Dahlem, Ihnenstrasse 73, D-14195 Germany
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- *Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Weigla 12, 53-114 Wrocław, Poland
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Leonard AC, Grimwade JE. Building a bacterial orisome: emergence of new regulatory features for replication origin unwinding. Mol Microbiol 2005; 55:978-85. [PMID: 15686547 PMCID: PMC1400601 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04467.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Triggering new rounds of chromosomal DNA replication during the bacterial cell cycle is exquisitely regulated, ensuring both proper timing and one round per cycle stringency. A critical first step is stable unwinding of oriC, the chromosomal replication origin, by multiprotein orisome complexes comprising the AAA+ initiator DnaA and modulator proteins that bend DNA. Recently identified oriC-DnaA interactions in Escherichia coli raise important questions regarding the molecular mechanisms that regulate origin unwinding in bacteria. We describe staged binding of E. coli origin recognition proteins and suggest an unwinding switch based on interactions between DnaA-ATP and specialized oriC sites that must be filled during orisome assembly. By focusing multiple regulatory pathways on only a few key oriC DNA-protein interactions, this model includes an efficient way to control unwinding followed by orisome inactivation during the cell cycle. Future studies will determine whether this regulatory scheme is correct and whether it is generally applicable to other bacterial types.
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- Alan C Leonard
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 W. University Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901, USA.
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Dasgupta S, Løbner-Olesen A. Host controlled plasmid replication: Escherichia coli minichromosomes. Plasmid 2005; 52:151-68. [PMID: 15518873 DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2004.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2004] [Revised: 08/06/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Escherichia coli minichromosomes are plasmids replicating exclusively from a cloned copy of oriC, the chromosomal origin of replication. They are therefore subject to the same types of replication control as imposed on the chromosome. Unlike natural plasmid replicons, minichromosomes do not adjust their replication rate to the cellular copy number and they do not contain information for active partitioning at cell division. Analysis of mutant strains where minichromosomes cannot be established suggest that their mere existence is dependent on the factors that ensure timely once per cell cycle initiation of replication. These observations indicate that replication initiation in E. coli is normally controlled in such a way that all copies of oriC contained within the cell, chromosomal and minichromosomal, are initiated within a fairly short time interval of the cell cycle. Furthermore, both replication and segregation of the bacterial chromosome seem to be controlled by sequences outside the origin itself.
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- Santanu Dasgupta
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Centre, Box 596, SE-751 24, Sweden
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Felczak MM, Kaguni JM. The box VII motif of Escherichia coli DnaA protein is required for DnaA oligomerization at the E. coli replication origin. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:51156-62. [PMID: 15371441 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m409695200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli DnaA protein initiates DNA replication from the chromosomal origin, oriC, and regulates the frequency of this process. Structure-function studies indicate that the replication initiator comprises four domains. Based on the structural similarity of Aquifex aeolicus DnaA to other AAA+ proteins that are oligomeric, it was proposed that Domain III functions in oligomerization at oriC (Erzberger, J. P., Pirruccello, M. M., and Berger, J. M. (2002) EMBO J. 21, 4763-4773). Because the Box VII motif within Domain III is conserved among DnaA homologues and may function in oligomerization, we substituted conserved Box VII amino acids of E. coli DnaA with alanine by site-directed mutagenesis to examine the role of this motif. All mutant proteins are inactive in initiation from oriC in vivo and in vitro, but they support RK2 plasmid DNA replication in vivo. Thus, RK2 requires only a subset of DnaA functions for plasmid DNA replication. Biochemical studies on a mutant DnaA carrying an alanine substitution at arginine 281 (R281A) in Box VII show that it is inactive in in vitro replication of an oriC plasmid, but this defect is not from the failure to bind to ATP, DnaB in the DnaB-DnaC complex, or oriC. Because the mutant DnaA is also active in the strand opening of oriC, whereas DnaB fails to bind to this unwound region, the open structure is insufficient by itself to load DnaB helicase. Our results show that the mutant fails to form a stable oligomeric DnaA-oriC complex, which is required for the loading of DnaB.
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- Magdalena M Felczak
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1319, USA
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Hengen PN, Lyakhov IG, Stewart LE, Schneider TD. Molecular flip-flops formed by overlapping Fis sites. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 31:6663-73. [PMID: 14602927 PMCID: PMC275571 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The DNA-binding protein Fis frequently uses pairs of sites 7 or 11 base pairs (bp) apart. Two overlapping Fis sites separated by 11 bp are found in the Escherichia coli origin of chromosomal replication. Only one of these sites is bound by Fis at a time, so the structure is a molecular flip-flop that could direct alternative firing of replication complexes in opposite directions. Alternatively, the flip-flop could represent part of an on-off switch for replication. Because they can be used to create precise switched states, molecular flip-flops could be used as the basis of a novel molecular computer.
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- Paul N Hengen
- Intramural Research Support Program, SAIC, NCI Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
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Simmons LA, Felczak M, Kaguni JM. DnaA Protein of Escherichia coli: oligomerization at the E. coli chromosomal origin is required for initiation and involves specific N-terminal amino acids. Mol Microbiol 2003; 49:849-58. [PMID: 12864864 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03603.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Iterated DnaA box sequences within the replication origins of bacteria and prokaryotic plasmids are recognized by the replication initiator, DnaA protein. At the E. coli chromosomal origin, oriC, DnaA is speculated to oligomerize to initiate DNA replication. We developed an assay of oligomer formation at oriC that relies on complementation between two dnaA alleles that are inactive by themselves. One allele is dnaA46; its inactivity at the non-permissive temperature is due to a specific defect in ATP binding. The second allele, T435K, does not support DNA replication because of its inability to bind to DnaA box sequences within oriC. We show that the T435K allele can complement the dnaA46(Ts) allele. The results support a model of oligomer formation in which DnaA box sequences of oriC are bound by DnaA46 to which T435K then binds to form an active complex. Relying on this assay, leucine 5, tryptophan 6 and cysteine 9 in a predicted alpha helix were identified that, when altered, interfere with oligomer formation. Glutamine 8 is additionally needed for oligomer formation on an oriC-containing plasmid, suggesting that the structure of the DnaA-oriC complex at the chromosomal oriC locus is similar but not identical to that assembled on a plasmid. Other evidence suggests that proline 28 of DnaA is involved in the recruitment of DnaB to oriC. These results provide direct evidence that DnaA oligomerization at oriC is required for initiation to occur.
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- Lyle A Simmons
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-131, USA
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Davey MJ, Jeruzalmi D, Kuriyan J, O'Donnell M. Motors and switches: AAA+ machines within the replisome. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2002; 3:826-35. [PMID: 12415300 DOI: 10.1038/nrm949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Clamp loaders are required to load the ring-shaped clamps that tether replicative DNA polymerases onto DNA. Recently solved crystal structures, along with a series of biochemical studies, have provided a detailed understanding of the clamp loading reaction. In particular, studies of the Escherichia coli clamp loader--an AAA+ machine--have provided insights into the architecture of clamp loaders from eukaryotes, bacteriophage T4 and archaea. Other AAA+ proteins are also involved in the initiation of DNA replication, and studies of the E. coli clamp loader indicate mechanisms by which these proteins might function.
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- Megan J Davey
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, New York 10021, USA
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P4 is a natural phasmid (phage-plasmid) that exploits different modes of propagation in its host Escherichia coli. Extracellularly, P4 is a virion, with a tailed icosahedral head, which encapsidates the 11.6-kb-long double-stranded DNA genome. After infection of the E. coli host, P4 DNA can integrate into the bacterial chromosome and be maintained in a repressed state (lysogeny). Alternatively, P4 can replicate as a free DNA molecule; this leads to either the lytic cycle or the plasmid state, depending on the presence or absence of the genome of a helper phage P2 in the E. coli host. As a phage, P4 is thus a satellite of P2 phage, depending on the helper genes for all the morphogenetic functions, whereas for all its episomal functions (integration and immunity, multicopy plasmid replication) P4 is completely autonomous from the helper. Replication of P4 DNA depends on its alpha protein, a multifunctional polypeptide that exhibits primase and helicase activity and binds specifically the P4 origin. Replication starts from a unique point, ori1, and proceeds bidirectionally in a straight theta-type mode. P4 negatively regulates the plasmid copy number at several levels. An unusual mechanism of copy number control is based on protein-protein interaction: the P4-encoded Cnr protein interacts with the alpha gene product, inhibiting its replication potential. Furthermore, expression of the replication genes cnr and alpha is regulated in a complex way that involves modulation of promoter activity by positive and negative factors and multiple mechanisms of transcription elongation-termination control. Thus, the relatively small P4 genome encodes mostly regulatory functions, required for its propagation both as an episomal element and as a temperate satellite phage. Plasmids that, like P4, propagate horizontally via a specific transduction mechanism have also been found in the Archaea. The presence of P4-like prophages or cryptic prophages often associated with accessory bacterial functions attests to the contribution of satellite phages to bacterial evolution.
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- F Briani
- Dipartimento di Genetica e di Biologia dei Microrganismi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, 20133, Italy
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Grimwade JE, Ryan VT, Leonard AC. IHF redistributes bound initiator protein, DnaA, on supercoiled oriC of Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 2000; 35:835-44. [PMID: 10692160 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01755.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In Escherichia coli, initiation of chromosome replication requires that DnaA binds to R boxes (9-mer repeats) in oriC, the unique chromosomal replication origin. At the time of initiation, integration host factor (IHF) also binds to a specific site in oriC. IHF stimulates open complex formation by DnaA on supercoiled oriC in cell-free replication systems, but it is unclear whether this stimulation involves specific changes in the oriC nucleoprotein complex. Using dimethylsulphate (DMS) footprinting on supercoiled oriC plasmids, we observed that IHF redistributed prebound DnaA, stimulating binding to sites R2, R3 and R5(M), as well as to three previously unidentified non-R sites with consensus sequence (A/T)G(G/C) (A/T)N(G/C)G(A/T)(A/T)(T/C)A. Redistribution was dependent on IHF binding to its cognate site and also required a functional R4 box. By reducing the DnaA level required to separate DNA strands and trigger initiation of DNA replication at each origin, IHF eliminates competition between strong and weak sites for free DnaA and enhances the precision of initiation synchrony during the cell cycle.
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- J E Grimwade
- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901-6975, USA
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Tocchetti A, Galimberti G, Dehò G, Ghisotti D. Characterization of the oriI and oriII origins of replication in phage-plasmid P4. J Virol 1999; 73:7308-16. [PMID: 10438819 PMCID: PMC104256 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.9.7308-7316.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In the Escherichia coli phage-plasmid P4, two partially overlapping replicons with bipartite ori sites coexist. The essential components of the oriI replicon are the alpha and cnr genes and the ori1 and crr sites; the oriII replicon is composed of the alpha gene, with the internal ori2 site, and the crr region. The P4 alpha protein has primase and helicase activities and specifically binds type I iterons, present in ori1 and crr. Using a complementation test for plasmid replication, we demonstrated that the two replicons depend on both the primase and helicase activities of the alpha protein. Moreover, neither replicon requires the host DnaA, DnaG, and Rep functions. The bipartite origins of the two replicons share the crr site and differ for ori1 and ori2, respectively. By deletion mapping, we defined the minimal ori1 and ori2 regions sufficient for replication. The ori1 site was limited to a 123-bp region, which contains six type I iterons spaced regularly close to the helical periodicity, and a 35-bp AT-rich region. Deletion of one or more type I iterons inactivated oriI. Moreover, insertion of 6 or 10 bp within the ori1 region also abolished replication ability, suggesting that the relative arrangement of the iterons is relevant. The ori2 site was limited to a 36-bp P4 region that does not contain type I iterons. In vitro, the alpha protein did not bind ori2. Thus, the alpha protein appears to act differently at the two origins of replication.
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- A Tocchetti
- Dipartimento di Genetica e di Biologia dei Microrganismi, Università di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
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Molina F, Jiménez-Sánchez A, Zyskind JW, Guzmán EC. Chromosomal insertions localized around oriC affect the cell cycle in Escherichia coli. Biochimie 1999; 81:811-8. [PMID: 10572293 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9084(99)00216-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The present work reports the effects of localized insertions around the origin of Escherichia coli chromosome, oriC, on cell cycle parameters. These insertions cause an increase of the C period with an inverse correlation to the distance from oriC. In addition, Omega insertion near oriC causes an increase in the number of replication forks per chromosome, n, and Tn10 insertion causes a decrease in growth rate. We found that the same insertion positioned in another region of the chromosome, outside of oriC, has a negligible effect on the C period. Marker frequency analysis suggests a slower replication velocity along the whole chromosome. We propose that the insertions positioned at less than 2 kbp from oriC could create a structural alteration in the origin of replication that would result in a longer C period. Flow cytometry reveals that asynchrony is not associated with these alterations.
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- F Molina
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Genética, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz 06080, Spain
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Asai T, Bates DB, Boye E, Kogoma T. Are minichromosomes valid model systems for DNA replication control? Lessons learned from Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 1998; 29:671-5. [PMID: 9723907 PMCID: PMC2978670 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00901.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Initiation of chromosome replication is a key event in the life cycle of any organism. Little is known, however, about the regulatory mechanisms of this vital process. Conventionally, the initiation mechanism of chromosome replication in microorganisms has been studied using plasmids in which an origin of chromosome replication has been cloned, rather than using the chromosome itself. The reason for this is that even bacterial chromosomes are so large that biochemical and genetic manipulations become difficult and cumbersome. Recently, the combination of flow cytometry and genetic methods, in which modifications of the replication origin are systematically introduced onto the chromosome, has made possible detailed studies of the molecular events involved in the control of replication initiation in Escherichia coli. The results indicate that requirements for initiation at the chromosomal origin, oriC, are drastically different from those for initiation at cloned oriC.
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- Tsuneaki Asai
- Department of Cell Biology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131
- Cancer Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131
- Cancer Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Montebello, 0310 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131
- Cancer Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131
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del Solar G, Giraldo R, Ruiz-Echevarría MJ, Espinosa M, Díaz-Orejas R. Replication and control of circular bacterial plasmids. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1998; 62:434-64. [PMID: 9618448 PMCID: PMC98921 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.62.2.434-464.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 681] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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An essential feature of bacterial plasmids is their ability to replicate as autonomous genetic elements in a controlled way within the host. Therefore, they can be used to explore the mechanisms involved in DNA replication and to analyze the different strategies that couple DNA replication to other critical events in the cell cycle. In this review, we focus on replication and its control in circular plasmids. Plasmid replication can be conveniently divided into three stages: initiation, elongation, and termination. The inability of DNA polymerases to initiate de novo replication makes necessary the independent generation of a primer. This is solved, in circular plasmids, by two main strategies: (i) opening of the strands followed by RNA priming (theta and strand displacement replication) or (ii) cleavage of one of the DNA strands to generate a 3'-OH end (rolling-circle replication). Initiation is catalyzed most frequently by one or a few plasmid-encoded initiation proteins that recognize plasmid-specific DNA sequences and determine the point from which replication starts (the origin of replication). In some cases, these proteins also participate directly in the generation of the primer. These initiators can also play the role of pilot proteins that guide the assembly of the host replisome at the plasmid origin. Elongation of plasmid replication is carried out basically by DNA polymerase III holoenzyme (and, in some cases, by DNA polymerase I at an early stage), with the participation of other host proteins that form the replisome. Termination of replication has specific requirements and implications for reinitiation, studies of which have started. The initiation stage plays an additional role: it is the stage at which mechanisms controlling replication operate. The objective of this control is to maintain a fixed concentration of plasmid molecules in a growing bacterial population (duplication of the plasmid pool paced with duplication of the bacterial population). The molecules involved directly in this control can be (i) RNA (antisense RNA), (ii) DNA sequences (iterons), or (iii) antisense RNA and proteins acting in concert. The control elements maintain an average frequency of one plasmid replication per plasmid copy per cell cycle and can "sense" and correct deviations from this average. Most of the current knowledge on plasmid replication and its control is based on the results of analyses performed with pure cultures under steady-state growth conditions. This knowledge sets important parameters needed to understand the maintenance of these genetic elements in mixed populations and under environmental conditions.
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- G del Solar
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
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Jakimowicz D, Majka J, Messer W, Speck C, Fernandez M, Cruz Martin M, Sanchez J, Schauwecker F, Keller U, Schrempf H, Zakrzewska-Czerwinńska J. Structural elements of the Streptomyces oriC region and their interactions with the DnaA protein. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1998; 144 ( Pt 5):1281-1290. [PMID: 9611803 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-5-1281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Streptomycetes differ from other prokaryotic organisms in their mycelial life cycle and in possessing a large, linear, GC-rich chromosome. To deduce structural features of the Streptomyces origin of chromosomal replication, the oriC sequences of three Streptomyces species (S. antibioticus, S. chrysomallus and S. lividans) were compared. In Streptomyces, the oriC region contains 19 DnaA boxes whose location, orientation and spacing are conserved. The consensus sequence of the DnaA box identified within Streptomyces oriC is (T/C)(T/C)(G/A/C)TCCACA (preferred bases underlined). The interactions of DnaA with DNA fragments containing single, two or three DnaA boxes were studied using surface plasmon resonance. The dissociation constant (KD) for specific binding of individual DnaA boxes varied between 12 and 78 nM. Streptomyces oriC does not contain the three AT-rich 13-mer direct repeats present in the 5' part of the Escherichia coli oriC region. However, short AT-rich sequences are distributed among the DnaA boxes of Streptomyces oriC. Repeated attempts to unwind Streptomyces oriC have been unsuccessful. It remains to be elucidated whether DnaA interacts with putative accessory proteins which help in unwinding Streptomyces oriC.
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- Dagmara Jakimowicz
- Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Ihnestraße 73, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
- Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Ihnestraße 73, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Ihnestraße 73, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
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- Departamento de Biologia Funcional e Instituto Universitario de Biotecnologia de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, J. Claveria 6, Oviedo 33006, Spain
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- Departamento de Biologia Funcional e Instituto Universitario de Biotecnologia de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, J. Claveria 6, Oviedo 33006, Spain
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- Departamento de Biologia Funcional e Instituto Universitario de Biotecnologia de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, J. Claveria 6, Oviedo 33006, Spain
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- Max-Volmer-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie und Biochemie, Fachgebiet Biochemie und Molekulare Biologie, Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstrasse 29, D-10587 Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Volmer-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie und Biochemie, Fachgebiet Biochemie und Molekulare Biologie, Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstrasse 29, D-10587 Berlin, Germany
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- Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie, Universität Osnabrück, Barbarastraße 11, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany
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- Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland
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Doran KS, Konieczny I, Helinski DR. Replication origin of the broad host range plasmid RK2. Positioning of various motifs is critical for initiation of replication. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:8447-53. [PMID: 9525957 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.14.8447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The 393-base pair minimal origin, oriV, of plasmid RK2 contains three iterated motifs essential for initiation of replication: consensus sequences for binding the bacterial DnaA protein, DnaA boxes, which have recently been shown to bind the DnaA protein; 17-base pair direct repeats, iterons, which bind the plasmid encoded replication protein, TrfA; and A + T-rich repeated sequences, 13-mers, which serve as the initial site of helix destabilization. To investigate how the organization of the RK2 origin contributes to the mechanism of replication initiation, mutations were introduced into the minimal origin which altered the sequence and/or spacing of each particular region relative to the rest of the origin. These altered origins were analyzed for replication activity in vivo and in vitro, for localized strand opening and for DnaB helicase mediated unwinding. Mutations in the region between the iterons and the 13-mers which altered the helical phase or the intrinsic DNA curvature prevented strand opening of the origin and consequently abolished replication activity. Insertions of more or less than one helical turn between the DnaA boxes and the iterons also inactivated the replication origin. In these mutants, however, strand opening appeared normal but the levels of DnaB helicase activity were substantially reduced. These results demonstrate that correct helical phasing and intrinsic DNA curvature are critical for the formation of an open complex and that the DnaA boxes must be on the correct side of the helix to load DnaB helicase.
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- K S Doran
- Department of Biology, Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0634, USA
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Konieczny I, Helinski DR. Helicase delivery and activation by DnaA and TrfA proteins during the initiation of replication of the broad host range plasmid RK2. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:33312-8. [PMID: 9407123 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.52.33312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Specific binding of the plasmid-encoded protein, TrfA, and the Escherichia coli DnaA protein to the origin region (oriV) is required for the initiation of replication of the broad host range plasmid RK2. It has been shown that the DnaA protein which binds to DnaA boxes upstream of the TrfA-binding sites (iterons) cannot by itself form an open complex, but it enhances the formation of the open complex by TrfA (Konieczny, I., Doran, K. S., Helinski, D. R., Blasina, A. (1997) J. Biol. Chem. 272, 20173). In this study an in vitro replication system is reconstituted from purified TrfA protein and E. coli proteins. With this system, a specific interaction between the DnaA and DnaB proteins is required for delivery of the helicase to the RK2 origin region. Although the DnaA protein directs the DnaB-DnaC complex to the plasmid replication origin, it cannot by itself activate the helicase. Both DnaA and TrfA proteins are required for DnaB-induced template unwinding. We propose that specific changes in the nucleoprotein structure mediated by TrfA result in a repositioning of the DnaB helicase within the open origin region and an activation of the DnaB protein for template unwinding.
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- I Konieczny
- Department of Biology, Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0634, USA
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Krause M, Rückert B, Lurz R, Messer W. Complexes at the replication origin of Bacillus subtilis with homologous and heterologous DnaA protein. J Mol Biol 1997; 274:365-80. [PMID: 9405146 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The initial steps in the formation of the initiation complex at oriC of Bacillus subtilis were analyzed with special emphasis on the exchangeability of B. subtilis DnaA protein by DnaA of Escherichia coli. The DNA binding domain of B. subtilis DnaA protein was localized in the 93 C-terminal amino acids. Formation of the "initial complex", as analyzed by electron microscopy, was indistinguishable with B. subtilis DnaA protein or with E. coli DnaA. Similarly, both proteins were able to form loops by interaction of DnaA proteins bound to the DnaA box regions upstream and downstream of the dnaA gene in B. subtilis oriC. The region of local unwinding in the "open complex" was precisely defined. It is located at one side of a region of helical instability, a DNA unwinding element (DUE). Unwinding in oriC could only be catalyzed by the homologous DnaA protein.
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- M Krause
- Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
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Weigel C, Schmidt A, Rückert B, Lurz R, Messer W. DnaA protein binding to individual DnaA boxes in the Escherichia coli replication origin, oriC. EMBO J 1997; 16:6574-83. [PMID: 9351837 PMCID: PMC1170261 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.21.6574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The formation of nucleoprotein complexes between the Escherichia coli initiator protein DnaA and the replication origin oriC was analysed in vitro by band-shift assays and electron microscopy. DnaA protein binds equally well to linear and supercoiled oriC substrates as revealed by analysis of the binding preference to individual DnaA boxes (9-mer repeats) in oriC, and by a competition band-shift assay. DnaA box R4 (oriC positions 260-268) binds DnaA preferentially and in the oriC context with higher affinity than expected from its binding constant. This effect depends on oriC positions 249 to 274, is enhanced by the wild-type sequence in the DnaA box R3 region, but is not dependent on Dam methylation or the curved DNA segment to the right of oriC. DnaA binds randomly to the DnaA boxes R1, M, R2 and R3 in oriC with no apparent cooperativity: the binding preference of DnaA to these sites was not altered for templates with mutated DnaA box R4. In the oriC context, DnaA box R1 binds DnaA with lower affinity than expected from its binding constant, i.e. the affinity is reduced to approximately that of DnaA box R2. Higher protein concentrations were required to observe binding to DnaA box M, making this low-affinity site a novel candidate for a regulatory dnaA box.
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- C Weigel
- Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
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Miyata M, Fukumura T. Asymmetrical progression of replication forks just after initiation on Mycoplasma capricolum chromosome revealed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Gene X 1997; 193:39-47. [PMID: 9249065 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00075-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Previously, we mapped the replication initiation site of the Mycoplasma capricolum chromosome into a region containing the dnaA gene [M. Miyata et al., 1993a. Nucleic Acids Res. 21, 4816-4823]. In this study, various regions including this functional domain were analyzed by two complementary two-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoretic methods. Sizes of nascent strands in a 10.7-kb and a 5.6-kb region were examined by a neutral/alkaline (N/A) method. The shortest nascent strand was detected in an 875-bp region composed of the 3' end of the dnaA gene and its downstream non-coding sequence. The shortest nascent strand detected became longer in an asymmetrical manner as position of the probe became further from the putative initiation site in both directions. The intermediate forms of eight regions restricted at different sites were examined by a neutral/neutral (N/N) method. Bubble arcs were observed in four regions including the 875-bp region. The region containing the 875-bp region at about its center showed an asymmetrical arc, although that containing the 875-bp region at its end showed a symmetrical arc. These results show that the replication forks develop in the 875-bp region and proceed bidirectionally in an asymmetrical manner around the initiation site. The results of N/A analysis of the 5.6-kb region showed a shift of intensity in the nascent strand signal, which suggests an upshift of fork progression velocity.
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- M Miyata
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi-ku, Japan.
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Learn BA, Um SJ, Huang L, McMacken R. Cryptic single-stranded-DNA binding activities of the phage lambda P and Escherichia coli DnaC replication initiation proteins facilitate the transfer of E. coli DnaB helicase onto DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:1154-9. [PMID: 9037022 PMCID: PMC19760 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.4.1154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The bacteriophage lambda P and Escherichia coli DnaC proteins are known to recruit the bacterial DnaB replicative helicase to initiator complexes assembled at the phage and bacterial origins, respectively. These specialized nucleoprotein assemblies facilitate the transfer of one or more molecules of DnaB helicase onto the chromosome; the transferred DnaB, in turn, promotes establishment of a processive replication fork apparatus. To learn more about the mechanism of the DnaB transfer reaction, we investigated the interaction of replication initiation proteins with single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). These studies indicate that both P and DnaC contain a cryptic ssDNA-binding activity that is mobilized when each forms a complex with the DnaB helicase. Concomitantly, the capacity of DnaB to bind to ssDNA, as judged by UV-crosslinking analysis, is suppressed upon formation of a P x DnaB or a DnaB x DnaC complex. This novel switch in ssDNA-binding activity evoked by complex formation suggests that interactions of P or DnaC with ssDNA may precede the transfer of DnaB onto DNA during initiation of DNA replication. Further, we find that the lambda O replication initiator enhances interaction of the P x DnaB complex with ssDNA. Partial disassembly of a ssDNA:O x P x DnaB complex by the DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE molecular chaperone system results in the transfer in cis of DnaB to the ssDNA template. On the basis of these findings, we present a general model for the transfer of DnaB onto ssDNA or onto chromosomal origins by replication initiation proteins.
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- B A Learn
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Chattoraj DK, Schneider TD. Replication control of plasmid P1 and its host chromosome: the common ground. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1997; 57:145-86. [PMID: 9175433 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60280-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- D K Chattoraj
- Laboratory of Biochemistry NCI, NIH Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Lee YS, Hwang DS. Occlusion of RNA Polymerase by Oligomerization of DnaA Protein over the dnaA Promoter of Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1997. [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.1.83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Using hemimethylated, fully methylated, and unmethylated oligonucleotide probes corresponding to part of the origin of Escherichia coli DNA replication, oriC (+81-136), we have characterized a novel hemimethylated DNA-specific protein binding activity. This activity appears to be located in the cytoplasm rather than in membrane fractions. It has been partially purified and, in DNase footprinting analysis, found to preferentially protect only a subset of the hemimethylated GATC sites present in the minimal oriC. These sites are found adjacent to the DnaA binding box, R1, and overlap the integration host factor binding site. The activity does not correspond to known hemimethylated binding proteins, although in the seqA deletion mutant, there is a 3-fold reduction of the activity. The stage of the cell cycle in synchronized PC2 cultures does not seem to significantly affect thte relative levels of this binding activity. A possible role in sequestration of the newly replicated hemimethylated origin is discussed.
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- J Garwood
- Biochemical Genetics Group, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris, France
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Bates DB, Asai T, Cao Y, Chambers MW, Cadwell GW, Boye E, Kogoma T. The DnaA box R4 in the minimal oriC is dispensable for initiation of Escherichia coli chromosome replication. Nucleic Acids Res 1995; 23:3119-25. [PMID: 7667087 PMCID: PMC366880 DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.16.3119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We have developed a genetic system with which to replace oriC+ on the Escherichia coli chromosome with modified oriC sequences constructed on plasmids. Using this system we have demonstrated that chromosomal oriC can tolerate the insertion of a 2 kb fragment at the HindIII site between DnaA boxes R3 and R4, whereas the same insertion completely inactivates cloned oriC. We have further found that although R4 is essential for the origin activity of cloned oriC, cells carrying a deletion of R4 in chromosomal oriC are viable. These results indicate that the oriC sequence necessary for initiation of chromosome replication is different from the so-called minimal oriC that was determined with cloned oriC. Flow cytometric analyses have revealed that these oriC mutations confer the initiation asynchrony phenotype. Introduction of the R4 deletion into a fis::kan mutant, which lacks the DNA bending protein FIS, renders the mutant cells inviable.
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- D B Bates
- Department of Cell Biology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque 87131, USA
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Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J, Majka J, Schrempf H. Minimal requirements of the Streptomyces lividans 66 oriC region and its transcriptional and translational activities. J Bacteriol 1995; 177:4765-71. [PMID: 7642504 PMCID: PMC177243 DOI: 10.1128/jb.177.16.4765-4771.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Deletion analysis of a previously constructed minichromosome revealed that a stretch of DNA which is longer than 623 bp but shorter than 837 bp is required for autonomous replication of the Streptomyces lividans chromosome. Each of the dnaA and dnaN genes flanking the oriC region is individually transcribed from two promoters. Within the intergenic, nontranslatable region between the dnaA and dnaN genes, five main transcripts and several less abundant transcripts of various lengths as well as one of the promoters were identified. The introduction of additional DnaA boxes in S. lividans led to a significant increase in dnaA gene transcripts and to an enhanced level of the DnaA (73-kDa) protein. In summary, the data suggest that dnaA gene transcription is autoregulated and that initiation of the S. lividans chromosome is tightly controlled.
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- J Zakrzewska-Czerwińska
- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Wrocław, Poland
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Schaper S, Messer W. Interaction of the initiator protein DnaA of Escherichia coli with its DNA target. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:17622-6. [PMID: 7615570 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.29.17622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Equilibrium and kinetic rate constants were determined for the binding of the initiator protein DnaA of Escherichia coli to its binding site, the non-palindromic 9-bp DnaA box, using gel retardation techniques. The dissociation constant for specific binding was between 1 and 50 nM for individual DnaA boxes on 21-bp double-stranded oligonucleotides. Only DnaA boxes of the sequence TT(A/T)TNCACA resulted in specific fragment retention. Both the 9-bp consensus sequence and flanking sequences determined the binding efficiency. One DnaA monomer was found to bind to a DnaA box and to induce a bend of about 40 degrees.
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- S Schaper
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
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Gray BN, Owen EA, Keniry MA. The solution conformation of a trisdecanucleotide containing the consensus binding site of the dnaA initiation protein. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 226:115-24. [PMID: 7957238 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb20032.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The solution structure of a trisdecanucleotide, d(CCTGTGGATAACA).d(TGTTATCCACAGG) containing the consensus binding site of the dnaA initiation protein has been determined by two-dimensional NMR techniques and restrained molecular dynamics calculations. Interproton distances were obtained by an iterative complete relaxation matrix algorithm, MARDIGRAS. During molecular dynamics runs, the backbone was restricted with the assistance of experimentally derived distance constraints. A family of refined structures with small pairwise root-mean-square deviation values (approximately 0.08 nm) was obtained. All but one of the pyrimidines were found to adopt the C1'-exo conformation while the purines were found to adopt the C2'-endo or C1'-exo conformation. The six-membered rings of the purines were found to stack over the six-membered rings of the pyrimidines while there is virtually no overlap of the pyrimidines over the purines. 5'-purine-purine-3' and 5'-pyrimidine-pyrimidine-3' stacking resembles the observed stacking of these bases in other NMR and X-ray structures of oligonucleotides. The final refined structure exhibited a small curvature and was slightly longer than canonical B-DNA. The variation of twist angle, proposed as a recognition element for proteins, exhibited symmetry about the centre of the consensus binding site.
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- B N Gray
- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra
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Asai T, Kogoma T. D-loops and R-loops: alternative mechanisms for the initiation of chromosome replication in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:1807-12. [PMID: 8144445 PMCID: PMC205281 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.7.1807-1812.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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- T Asai
- Department of Cell Biology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque 87131
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Roth A, Urmoneit B, Messer W. Functions of histone-like proteins in the initiation of DNA replication at oriC of Escherichia coli. Biochimie 1994; 76:917-23. [PMID: 7748935 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(94)90016-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Using methidiumpropyl-EDTA (MPE) footprinting we found one specific binding site for FIS protein in the E coli replication origin, oriC. We mutagenized the binding sites for FIS and IHF in oriC and analyzed the effect of the mutations on protein binding and oriC function. The replication efficiency of oriC plasmids paralleled the ability of the mutated DNA fragments to bind IHF or FIS. We conclude that these histone-like proteins function in cis in the initiation of DNA replication at oriC.
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- A Roth
- Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
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