PMID:11551962
| Citation |
Carr, KM and Kaguni, JM (2001) Stoichiometry of DnaA and DnaB protein in initiation at the Escherichia coli chromosomal origin. J. Biol. Chem. 276:44919-25 |
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| Abstract |
Initiation of DNA replication at the Escherichia coli chromosomal origin, oriC, occurs through an ordered series of events that depend first on the binding of DnaA protein, the replication initiator, to DnaA box sequences within oriC followed by unwinding of an AT-rich region near the left border. The prepriming complex then forms, involving the binding of DnaB helicase at oriC so that it is properly positioned at each replication fork. We assembled and isolated the prepriming complexes on an oriC plasmid, then determined the stoichiometries of proteins in these complexes by quantitative immunoblot analysis. DnaA protein alone binds to oriC with a stoichiometry of 4-5 monomers per oriC DNA. In the prepriming complex, the stoichiometries are 10 DnaA monomers and 2 DnaB hexamers per oriC plasmid. That only two DnaB hexamers are bound, one for each replication fork, suggests that the binding of additional molecules of DnaA in forming the prepriming complex restricts the loading of additional DnaB hexamers that can bind at oriC. |
| Links |
PubMed Online version:10.1074/jbc.M107463200 |
| Keywords |
Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry; Binding Sites; Blotting, Western; DNA/metabolism; DNA Helicases/chemistry; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry; DnaB Helicases; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Magnesium/pharmacology; Models, Genetic; Plasmids/metabolism; Protein Binding; Protein Structure, Tertiary; Replication Origin/genetics |
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