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Query: EC:2.7.7.7 (DNA polymerase)
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The single-stranded DNA binding protein RP-A is required in SV40 DNA in vitro replication. The RP-A purified from calf thymus contains 4 polypeptides with molecular weights 70kDa, 53kDa, 32kDa, and 14kDa. The p70 subunit and its proteolysed form p53 are recognized by the monoclonal antibody 70C (Kenny et al. (1990)) and bind to ssDNA. The p70 and p32 subunits of bovine RP-A are phosphorylated by CDC2-cyclin B kinase. Bovine RP-A supports the origin dependent unwinding of SV40 DNA by T antigen. Furthermore, bovine RP-A can efficiently substitute for human RP-A in SV40 DNA replication in vitro. A modified blotting technique revealed that RP-A interacts specifically and directly with the p48 subunit of DNA polymerase alpha-primase complex.
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PMID:Purification and functional characterization of bovine RP-A in an in vitro SV40 DNA replication system. 133 80

Replication factors A and C (RF-A and RF-C) and the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) differentially augment the activities of DNA polymerases alpha and delta. The mechanism of stimulation by these replication factors was investigated using a limiting concentration of primed, single-stranded template DNA. RF-A stimulated polymerase alpha activity in a concentration-dependent manner, but also suppressed nonspecific initiation of DNA synthesis by both polymerases alpha and delta. The primer recognition complex, RF-C.PCNA.ATP, stimulated pol delta activity in cooperation with RF-A, but also functioned to prevent abnormal initiation of DNA synthesis by polymerase alpha. Reconstitution of DNA replication with purified factors and a plasmid containing the SV40 origin sequences directly demonstrated DNA polymerase alpha dependent synthesis of lagging strands and DNA polymerase delta/PCNA/RF-C dependent synthesis of leading strands. RF-A and the primer recognition complex both affected the relative levels of leading and lagging strands. These results, in addition to results in an accompanying paper (Tsurimoto, T., and Stillman, B. (1991) J. Biol. Chem. 266, 1950-1960), suggest that an exchange of DNA polymerase complexes occurs during initiation of bidirectional DNA replication at the SV40 origin.
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PMID:Replication factors required for SV40 DNA replication in vitro. II. Switching of DNA polymerase alpha and delta during initiation of leading and lagging strand synthesis. 167 Oct 46

The proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and the replication factors A and C (RF-A and RF-C) are cellular proteins essential for complete elongation of DNA during synthesis from the simian virus 40 origin of DNA replication in vitro. All three cooperate to stimulate processive DNA synthesis by DNA polymerase delta on a primed single-stranded M13 template DNA and as such can be categorized as DNA polymerase accessory proteins. Biochemical analyses with highly purified RF-C and PCNA have demonstrated functions that are completely analogous to the functions of bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase accessory proteins. A primer-template-specific DNA binding activity and a DNA-dependent ATPase activity copurified with the multisubunit protein RF-C and are similar to the functions of the phage T4 gene 44/62 protein complex. Furthermore, PCNA stimulated the RF-C ATPase activity and is, therefore, analogous to the phage T4 gene 45 protein, which stimulates the ATPase function of the gene 44/62 protein complex. Indeed, some primary sequence similarities between human PCNA and the phage T4 gene 45 protein could be detected. These results demonstrate a striking conservation of the DNA replication apparatus in human cells and bacteriophage T4.
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PMID:Functions of replication factor C and proliferating-cell nuclear antigen: functional similarity of DNA polymerase accessory proteins from human cells and bacteriophage T4. 196 33

Cell-free replication systems for simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA are taken to be a model for the replication of eukaryotic chromosomes, because only one viral protein is required to supplement the replication proteins provided by a human cell extract. To prove that these cellular proteins function in chromosomal DNA replication we have begun to identify homologous proteins in an organism that can be genetically manipulated. Here we report the identification of yeast replication factor-A (yRF-A) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and show that it is functionally and structurally related to a human protein that is required for the initiation and elongation of SV40 DNA replication. Yeast RF-A, a multi-subunit phosphoprotein, is similar to the human protein in its chromatographic behaviour, subunit structure and DNA-binding activity. The yeast protein will fully substitute for the human protein in an early stage of the initiation of SV40 DNA replication. Substitution of yRF-A in the complete SV40 replication system, however, results in reduced DNA replication, presumably due to a requirement for species-specific interactions between yeast RF-A and the DNA polymerase complex.
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PMID:Yeast replication factor-A functions in the unwinding of the SV40 origin of DNA replication. 255 44

DNA synthesis by two eukaryotic DNA polymerases, alpha and delta, was studied using a single-strand M13 DNA template primed at a unique site. In the presence of low amounts of either DNA polymerase alpha or delta, DNA synthesis was limited and short DNA strands of approximately 100 bases were produced. Addition of replication factors RF-A, PCNA and RF-C, which were previously shown to be required for SV40 DNA replication in vitro, differentially stimulated the activity of both DNA polymerases. RF-A and RF-C independently stimulated DNA polymerase alpha activity 4- to 6-fold, yielding relatively short DNA strands (less than 1 kb) and PCNA had no effect. In contrast, polymerase delta activity was stimulated co-operatively by PCNA, RF-A and RF-C approximately 25- to 30-fold, yielding relatively long DNA strands (up to 4 kb). Neither RF-C nor RF-A appear to correspond to known polymerase stimulatory factors. RF-A was previously shown to be required for initiation of DNA replication at the SV40 origin. Results presented here suggest that it also functions during elongation. The differential effects of these three replication factors on DNA polymerases alpha and delta is consistent with the model that the polymerases function at the replication fork on the lagging and leading strand templates respectively. We further suggest that co-ordinated synthesis of these strands requires dynamic protein-protein interactions between these replication factors and the two DNA polymerases.
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PMID:Multiple replication factors augment DNA synthesis by the two eukaryotic DNA polymerases, alpha and delta. 257 21

DNA polymerase epsilon (pol epsilon) from HeLa cells was purified to near homogeneity, utilizing Mono S fast protein liquid chromatography for complete separation from pol alpha. The purified pol epsilon preparation showed two polypeptides of > 200 and 55 kDa and a small amount of active 122-kDa proteolysis product on denaturing polyacrylamide gels. Pol epsilon (as well as pols alpha and delta) is optimally active in 100-150 mM potassium glutamate and 15 mM MgCl2. Replication factors RF-A and RF-C, proliferating cell nuclear antigen, and Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA binding protein showed no significant effect on this preparation's pol epsilon activity, processivity, or substrate specificity. The size of the pol epsilon transcript for the catalytic subunit (> 200 kDa) was investigated in both normal human fibroblasts and HeLa cells. A 7.7-kilobase transcript was detected which was 5-16-fold more prevalent in proliferating than in quiescent HeLa cells. No significant difference in the level of pol epsilon transcript in HeLa cells or fibroblasts was seen after ultraviolet irradiation. Mouse polyclonal antiserum was produced to a 144-amino acid fragment of pol epsilon fused to staphylococcal protein A. This non-neutralizing polyclonal antiserum specifically recognized the catalytic subunit of pol epsilon by immunoblotting, but not that of pol alpha, beta, or delta. In addition, mouse polyclonal antiserum raised against column-purified pol epsilon was able to recognize and to neutralize pol epsilon, and a mouse monoclonal antibody was raised which was able to recognize specifically the catalytic subunit of pol epsilon.
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PMID:Further characterization of HeLa DNA polymerase epsilon. 753 91

A number of DNA helicases have been isolated from mammalian cells, but their abilities to stimulate DNA replication accompanied with DNA unwinding have not been addressed so far. We constructed a model DNA replication system using the yeast autonomously replicating sequence (ARS) as the replication origin. In this system, SV40 T antigen as a DNA helicase assembles to the replication origin where the DNA duplex is unwound by torsional stress due to the negative supercoiling of template DNA, which leads to bidirectional DNA replication from the origin. We report here that DNA helicase B isolated from mouse FM3A cells can greatly stimulate DNA synthesis in this replication system in place of SV40 T antigen. DNA synthesis was dependent on the presence of single-stranded DNA binding protein (RP-A), DNA polymerase alpha/primase from mouse cells, and Escherichia coli DNA gyrase. DNA gyrase was required not only at elongation as a DNA swivelase but also at initiation to increase negative superhelical density of template DNA with the assistance of RP-A. A mammalian DNA fragment containing a replication initiation zone upstream of the c-myc gene as well as the yeast ARS fragment acted as a cis-element in this system using DNA helicase B. Both DNA helicase B and SV40 T antigen have the ability to extensively unwind the template DNA in the presence of RP-A and DNA gyrase, which may be crucial for stimulation of DNA synthesis in this system.
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PMID:Stimulation of DNA synthesis by mouse DNA helicase B in a DNA replication system containing eukaryotic replication origins. 779 3

The in vitro replication of DNA containing the bovine papillomavirus (BPV-1) origin has been carried out with cell-free extracts from mouse FM3A and human HeLa cells. DNA synthesis required the E1 protein, the minimal origin of replication (nucleotides 7911-22 of the BPV-1 genome), and, at low levels of FM3A extract, the addition of the human single-stranded DNA-binding protein (also called RP-A or RF-A). The E2 protein was not absolutely required, but could stimulate DNA synthesis at low levels of E1. DNA synthesis was also reconstituted using purified proteins from HeLa cells. These protein factors included human single-stranded DNA-binding protein, topoisomerase I, and DNA polymerase (pol) alpha-primase complex. At low concentrations of pol alpha-primase complex, the formation of high molecular weight products was dependent on the addition of DNA polymerase delta holoenzyme containing proliferating cell nuclear antigen and activator 1, also called RF-C. We have overexpressed and isolated the E1 protein from bacteria. This protein also supported BPV DNA synthesis, both in crude extracts and with purified proteins suggesting that E1 phosphorylation is not required for BPV DNA replication in vitro.
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PMID:Replication of bovine papillomavirus type 1 origin-containing DNA in crude extracts and with purified proteins. 800 13

Physical and functional interactions of simian virus 40 (SV40) and polyomavirus large-T antigens with DNA polymerase alpha-primase were analyzed to elucidate the molecular basis for the species specificity of polymerase alpha-primase in viral DNA replication. SV40 T antigen associated more efficiently with polymerase alpha-primase in crude human extracts than in mouse extracts, while polyomavirus T antigen interacted preferentially with polymerase alpha-primase in mouse extracts. The apparent species specificity of complex formation was not observed when purified polymerase alpha-primases were substituted for the crude extracts. Several functional interactions between T antigen and purified polymerase alpha-primase, including stimulation of primer synthesis and primer elongation on M13 DNA in the presence or absence of the single-stranded DNA binding protein RP-A, also proved to be independent of the species from which polymerase alpha-primase had been purified. However, the human DNA polymerase alpha-primase was specifically required for primosome assembly and primer synthesis on SV40 origin DNA in the presence of T antigen and RP-A.
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PMID:Species-specific functional interactions of DNA polymerase alpha-primase with simian virus 40 (SV40) T antigen require SV40 origin DNA. 816 73

We describe the purification to near homogeneity of a single-stranded DNA binding protein from 0-18-h embryos of Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila SSB (D-SSB) is a heterotrimer with subunits of molecular weight of 70,000, 30,000, and 8000. It has a Stokes radius of 48.6 +/- 2 A and s20,w = 5.0 +/- 0.2 S. The interaction of D-SSB with ssDNA was examined by the quenching of intrinsic protein fluorescence. The binding site size was determined to be n = 22 +/- 4 nucleotides with a maximum quenching Qm = 35 +/- 3%. Equilibrium titrations indicate that D-SSB binds with low cooperativity, omega = 10-300, and high apparent affinity, K omega = (0.7-5) x 10(7) M-1, at 225 mM NaCl. Sedimentation of D-SSB bound to small oligonucleotides demonstrates that D-SSB does not require protein association for binding. D-SSB stimulates the extent and processivity of DNA synthesis of its cognate DNA polymerase alpha. On the basis of these properties, we conclude that D-SSB is the Drosophila cognate of the human and yeast SSB/RP-A proteins.
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PMID:A single-stranded DNA binding protein from Drosophila melanogaster: characterization of the heterotrimeric protein and its interaction with single-stranded DNA. 849 3


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