Abstract:
:Termination of DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis involves the polar arrest of replication forks by a specific complex formed between the replication terminator protein (RTP) and DNA terminator sites. While determination of the crystal structure of RTP has facilitated our understanding of how a single RTP dimer interacts with terminator DNA, additional information is required in order to understand the assembly of a functional fork arrest complex, which requires an interaction between two RTP dimers and the terminator site. In this study, we show that the conformation of the major B.subtilis DNA terminator,TerI, becomes considerably distorted upon binding RTP. Binding of the first dimer of RTP to the B site of TerI causes the DNA to become slightly unwound and bent by approximately 40 degrees. Binding of a second dimer of RTP to the A site causes the bend angle to increase to approximately 60 degrees . We have used this new data to construct two plausible models that might explain how the ternary terminator complex can block DNA replication in a polar manner. In the first model, polarity of action is a consequence of the two RTP-DNA half-sites having different conformations. These different conformations result from different RTP-DNA contacts at each half-site (due to the intrinsic asymmetry of the terminator DNA), as well as interactions (direct or indirect) between the RTP dimers on the DNA. In the second model, polar fork arrest activity is a consequence of the different affinities of RTP for the A and B sites of the terminator DNA, modulated significantly by direct or indirect interactions between the RTP dimers.
journal_name
Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Kralicek AV,Wilson PK,Ralston GB,Wake RG,King GFdoi
10.1093/nar/25.3.590subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-02-01 00:00:00pages
590-6issue
3eissn
0305-1048issn
1362-4962pii
gka099journal_volume
25pub_type
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