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Query: EC:2.7.7.7 (DNA polymerase)
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Storage of the dimeric (alphabeta) form of avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) DNA polymerase in glycerol resulted in the release of the smaller alpha subunit, as detected by glycerol gradient sedimentation. Analysis by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of enzyme stored in glycerol showed the concomitant appearance of several polypeptides and a lowering in the level of both beta and alpha components. This reduction appears to be the result of cleavages introduced by traces of hydrolytic activity present in glycerol samples. An enhancement of alpha subunit released, as detected by activity profile, was also achieved upon direct but limited exposure of purified avian myeloblastosis virus DNA polymerase to carboxymethyl-cellulose-bound trypsin matrix. Electrophoretic analysis of digested enzyme revealed a progressive fragmentation, with simultaneous increase in the alpha subunit and decrease in the beta subunit.
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PMID:Mechanism of release of active alpha subunit from dimeric alpha beta avian myeloblastosis virus DNA polymerase. 5 80

Three forms of the RNA-dependent DNA polymerase were isolated from highly purified avian sarcoma virus B77 grown in duck embryo fibroblasts, using sequential chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, phosphocellulose, and poly(U)-cellulose. One form, which sedimented with about 5.2 S, contained only one species of polypeptide, with a molecular weight of 63,000; a second sedimented with about 7.8 S and contained only one species of polypeptide with a molecular weight of 81,000; and a third form, which sedimented with about 7.3 S, contained two species of polypeptides with molecular weights of 63,000 and 81,000. The molecular constitution of the three enzyme forms were therefore alpha, beta2, and alphabeta. All three possessed almost the same specific activity with poly(rA)-oligo(dT) as the primer-template. Forms alpha and alphabeta of avian sarcoma virus DNA polymerase have already been described in the literature; form beta2 is a new form. All three forms possessed ribonuclease H activity, the relative specific activities of the alpha, beta2, and alphabeta forms being about 1:4:5. All three enzyme forms were inhibited by antiserum to the alphabeta form, but whereas the alpha and alphabeta forms could be inhibited about 95%, the maximum degree of inhibition of the beta2 form was about 80%. The three enzyme forms also differed with respect to heat stability at 46 degrees, the monomeric alpha form of the enzyme being only about one-half as stable as the two dimeric forms.
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PMID:RNA-dependent DNA polymerase of avian sarcoma virus B77. I. Isolation and partial characterization of the alpha, beta2, and alphabeta forms of the enzyme. 6 34

Sakakibara and Tomizawa (1974a) have described a soluble in vitro system that can carry the semi-conservative replication of the Co1 E1 plasmid. However, the usefulness of this system is restricted by its rapid inactivation during storage. This paper describes a stable soluble system prepared by freeze-thaw lysis of chloramphenicol-treated E. coli cells which replicates added Co1 E1 and C1o DF13 DNA. It differs from the system employed by Sakakibara and Tomizawa in two important points: (1) Its replicative capacity for Co1 E1 DNA is by an order of magnitude higher and (2) it can be stored in liquid nitrogen for several months without loss of activity Plasmid replication in vitro is dependent of DNA polymerase I and requires de novo RNA synthesis. It is completely inhibited by rifampicin, oxolinic acid, and novobiocin. The DNA synthesized during a 60 min incubation at 30 degrees C consists mostly of monomeric supercoils. If Co1 E1 DNA is used as template, a minor portion of the label is also found in closed dimeric catenanes. Density labelling experiments indicate that plasmid DNA synthesis occurs by a semi-conservative replication process.
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PMID:Replication of small plasmids in extracts of Escherichia coli. 78 16

Individually purified subunits have been used to reconstitute the action of the Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme (Pol III HE) at a replication fork formed in the presence of the primosome, the single-stranded DNA binding protein, and a tailed form II DNA template. Complete activity, indistinguishable from that of the intact DNA Pol III HE, could be reproduced with a combination of the DNA polymerase III core (Pol III core), the gamma.delta complex, and the beta subunit. Experiments where the Pol III core in reaction mixtures containing active replication forks was diluted suggested that the lagging-strand Pol III core remained associated continuously with the replication fork through multiple cycles of Okazaki fragment synthesis. Since the lagging-strand Pol III core must dissociate from the 3' end of the completed Okazaki fragment, this suggests that its association with the fork is via protein-protein interactions, lending credence to the idea that it forms a dimeric complex with the leading-strand Pol III core. An asymmetry in the action of the subunits was revealed under conditions (high ionic strength) that were presumably destabilizing to the integrity of the replication fork. Under these conditions, tau acted to stimulate DNA synthesis only when the primase was present (i.e. when lagging-strand DNA synthesis was ongoing). This stimulation was reflected by an inhibition of the formation of small Okazaki fragments, suggesting that, within the context of the model developed to account for the temporal order of steps during a cycle of Okazaki fragment synthesis, the presence of tau accelerated the transit of the lagging-strand Pol III core from the 3' end of the completed Okazaki fragment to the 3' end of the new primer.
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PMID:Coordinated leading- and lagging-strand synthesis at the Escherichia coli DNA replication fork. IV. Reconstitution of an asymmetric, dimeric DNA polymerase III holoenzyme. 134 85

Initiation of adenovirus DNA synthesis is preceded by the assembly of a nucleoprotein complex at the origin of DNA replication containing three viral proteins, preterminal protein, DNA polymerase and DNA binding protein, and two cellular proteins, nuclear factors I and III. While sequence specific interactions of the cellular proteins with their cognate sites in the origin of DNA replication are well characterized, the question of how the viral replication proteins recognize the origin has remained unanswered. Preterminal protein and DNA polymerase were therefore purified to homogeneity from recombinant baculovirus infected insect cells. Gel filtration demonstrated that while DNA polymerase existed in monomeric and dimeric forms, preterminal protein was predominantly monomeric and when combined the proteins formed a stable heterodimer. In a gel electrophoresis DNA binding assay each of the protein species recognized DNA within the origin of DNA replication with unique specificity. Competition analysis and DNase I protection experiments revealed that although each protein could recognize the origin, the heterodimer did so with enhanced specificity, protecting bases 8-17 from cleavage with the nuclease. Thus the highly conserved 'core' of the origin of DNA replication, present in all human adenoviruses, is recognized by the preterminal protein--DNA polymerase heterodimer.
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PMID:Recognition of the adenovirus type 2 origin of DNA replication by the virally encoded DNA polymerase and preterminal proteins. 153 47

When present in single-stranded DNA, palindromic or quasi-palindromic sequences have the potential to form complex secondary structures, including hairpins, which may facilitate interstrand misalignment of direct repeats and be responsible for diverse types of replication-based mutations, including deletions, additions, frameshifts and duplications. In regions of palindromic symmetry, specific deletion events may involve the formation of a hairpin or other DNA secondary structures which can stabilize the misalignment of direct repeats. One model suggests that these deletions occur during DNA replication by slippage of the template strand and misalignment with the progeny strand. The concurrent DNA replication model, involving an asymmetric dimeric DNA polymerase III complex which replicates the leading and lagging strands, has significant implications for mutagenesis. The intermittent looping of the lagging strand template, and the fact that the lagging strand template may contain a region of single-stranded DNA the length of an Okazaki fragment, provides an opportunity for DNA secondary-structure formation and misalignment. Here we report our design of a palindromic fragment to create an 'asymmetric palindromic insert' in the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene of plasmid pBR325. The frequency with which the insert was deleted in Escherichia coli depends on the orientation of the gene in the plasmid. Our results suggest that replication-dependent deletion between direct repeats may occur preferentially in the lagging strand.
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PMID:Preferential DNA secondary structure mutagenesis in the lagging strand of replication in E. coli. 186 10

It is speculated that DNA polymerases which duplicate chromosomes are dimeric to provide concurrent replication of both leading and lagging strands. DNA polymerase III holoenzyme (holoenzyme), is the 10-subunit replicase of the Escherichia coli chromosome. A complex of the alpha (DNA polymerase) and epsilon (3'-5' exonuclease) subunits of the holoenzyme contains only one of each protein. Presumably, one of the eight other subunit(s) functions to dimerize the alpha epsilon polymerase within the holoenzyme. Based on dimeric subassemblies of the holoenzyme, two subunits have been elected as possible agents of polymerase dimerization, one of which is the tau subunit (McHenry, C. S. (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 2657-2663). Here, we have used pure alpha, epsilon, and tau subunits in binding studies to determine whether tau can dimerize the polymerase. We find tau binds directly to alpha. Whereas alpha is monomeric, tau is a dimer in its native state and thereby serves as an efficient scaffold to dimerize the polymerase. The epsilon subunit does not associate directly with tau but becomes dimerized in the alpha epsilon tau complex by virtue of its interaction with alpha. We have analyzed the dimeric alpha epsilon tau complex by different physical methods to increase the confidence that this complex truly contains a dimeric polymerase. The tau subunit is comprised of the NH2-terminal two-thirds of tau but does not bind to alpha epsilon, identifying the COOH-terminal region of tau as essential to its polymerase dimerization function. The significance of these results with respect to the organization of subunits within the holoenzyme is discussed.
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PMID:Constitution of the twin polymerase of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme. 191 87

The beta subunit of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme is in a dimer-monomer equilibrium at physiological beta concentrations. Dissociation is accompanied by the fluorescence enhancement of a fluorophore attached to a unique sulfhydryl group of beta (Griep, M. A., and McHenry, C. S. (1988) Biochemistry 27, 5210-5215). Sequencing of the isolated tryptic peptides of beta revealed that the fluorescent maleimide group was attached to cysteine 333. The 2 residues, lysine 332 and glutamate 334, that flank this residue are hydrophilic and may place cysteine 333 on the surface of beta, explaining its high reactivity. Fluorescence energy transfer permitted us to locate the uniquely labeled cysteines 333 of beta at the distal ends of the beta dimer. When the beta dimer was dissociated to monomers, the accompanying alteration of the conformational state was reported by the fluorescein-5-maleimide (fluorescein)-labeled cysteines which were located far from the dimer interface. The carboxyl of fluorescein had a fluorescence pKa of 6.9 when beta was in its dimeric state. The pKa decreased by 0.3 pH unit upon dissociation to monomers and resulted in the fluorescence enhancement that was observed when the signal was monitored at constant pH. The adjacent glutamate 334 apparently increased the pKa of the attached fluorescein when beta was in its dimeric state. Movement of either the adjacent lysine 332 amino side chain to a closer position or glutamate 334 to a position further away could lower the pKa upon beta monomerization. Thus, beta undergoes a conformational change concomitant with dimer dissociation that was transmitted to the opposite ends of the beta dimer. The pKa of fluorescein attached to the distal cysteines was shifted, leading to greater ionization and enhanced fluorescence.
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PMID:Dissociation of the DNA polymerase III holoenzyme beta 2 subunits is accompanied by conformational change at distal cysteines 333. 224 96

DNA polymerase III holoenzyme (holoenzyme) is the 10-subunit replicase of the Escherichia coli chromosome. In this report, pure preparations of delta, delta', and a gamma chi psi complex are resolved from the five protein gamma complex subassembly. Using these subunits and other holoenzyme subunits isolated from overproducing plasmid strains of E. coli, the rapid and highly processive holoenzyme has been reconstituted from only five pure single subunits: alpha, epsilon, gamma, delta, and beta. The preceding report showed that of the three subunits in the core polymerase, only a complex of alpha (DNA polymerase) and epsilon (3'-5' exonuclease) are required to assemble a processive holoenzyme on a template containing a preinitiation complex (Studwell, P.S., and O'Donnell, M. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 1171-1178). This report shows that of the five proteins in the gamma complex only a heterodimer of gamma and delta is required with the beta subunit to form the ATP-activated preinitiation complex with a primed template. Surprisingly, the delta' subunit does not form an active complex with gamma but forms a fully active heterodimer complex with the tau subunit (as does delta). Hence, the tau delta' and gamma delta heterodimers are fully active in the preinitiation complex reaction with beta and primed DNA. Holoenzymes reconstituted using the alpha epsilon complex, beta subunit, and either gamma delta or tau delta' are fully processive in DNA synthesis, and upon completing the template they rapidly cycle to a new primed template endowed with a preinitiation complex clamp. Since the holoenzyme molecule contains all of these accessory subunits (gamma, delta, tau, delta', and beta) in all likelihood it has the capacity to form two preinitiation complex clamps simultaneously at two primer termini. Two primer binding components within one holoenzyme may mediate its rapid cycling to multiple primers on the lagging strand and also provides functional evidence for the hypothesis of holoenzyme as a dimeric polymerase capable of simultaneous replication of both leading and lagging strands of a replication fork.
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PMID:Total reconstitution of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme reveals dual accessory protein clamps. 240 6

A region upstream from the origin of replication in ColE1-type plasmids has been shown to be necessary for replication. Two RNA transcripts are produced from this area, RNA II, which yields the primer for DNA polymerase initiation at the origin and RNA I, which is complementary to the 5' end of RNA II and acts to inhibit primer formation. We have constructed plasmids which do not possess the nucleotide sequence for RNA I, or the normal 5' terminus and promoter of RNA II. The RNA II analog, in these plasmids, is believed to be synthesized by the readthrough transcription of the upstream trimethoprim-resistant dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) gene at a level comparable to that produced by the tryptophan promoter. These plasmids have a copy number of about tenfold higher than that of pBR322 during logarithmic growth and are compatible with other ColE1-type plasmids. These plasmids are stably maintained in several strains when selective pressure is present and the plasmids are stably maintained during exponential growth in W3110 strains without selective pressure. In all strains examined, the dimeric form of the plasmid was lost from cells much more rapidly than those containing the monomeric form.
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PMID:Construction and characterization of pBR322-derived plasmids with deletions of the RNA I region. 242 15


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