Abstract:
:Replication forks must respond to changes in nutrient conditions, especially in bacterial cells. By investigating the single-molecule dynamics of replicative helicase DnaC, DNA primase DnaG, and lagging-strand polymerase DnaE in the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis, we show that proteins react differently to stress conditions in response to transient replication blocks due to DNA damage, to inhibition of the replicative polymerase, or to downshift of serine availability. DnaG appears to be recruited to the forks by a diffusion and capture mechanism, becomes more statically associated after the arrest of polymerase, but binds less frequently after fork blocks due to DNA damage or to nutritional downshift. These results indicate that binding of the alarmone (p)ppGpp due to stringent response prevents DnaG from binding to forks rather than blocking bound primase. Dissimilar behavior of DnaG and DnaE suggests that both proteins are recruited independently to the forks rather than jointly. Turnover of all three proteins was increased during replication block after nutritional downshift, different from the situation due to DNA damage or polymerase inhibition, showing high plasticity of forks in response to different stress conditions. Forks persisted during all stress conditions, apparently ensuring rapid return to replication extension.IMPORTANCE All cells need to adjust DNA replication, which is achieved by a well-orchestrated multiprotein complex, in response to changes in physiological and environmental conditions. For replication forks, it is extremely challenging to meet with conditions where amino acids are rapidly depleted from cells, called the stringent response, to deal with the inhibition of one of the centrally involved proteins or with DNA modifications that arrest the progression of forks. By tracking helicase (DnaC), primase (DnaG), and polymerase (DnaE), central proteins of Bacillus subtilis replication forks, at a single molecule level in real time, we found that interactions of the three proteins with replication forks change in different manners under different stress conditions, revealing an intriguing plasticity of replication forks in dealing with replication obstacles. We have devised a new tool to determine rates of exchange between static movement (binding to a much larger complex) and free diffusion, showing that during stringent response, all proteins have highly increased exchange rates, slowing down overall replication, while inactivation of polymerase or replication roadblocks leaves forks largely intact, allowing rapid restart once obstacles are removed.
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Hernández-Tamayo R,Schmitz H,Graumann PLdoi
10.1128/mSphere.00948-20subject
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2021-01-27 00:00:00issue
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2379-5042pii
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