Nonspecific Double-Stranded DNA Binding Activity of Simian Virus 40 Large T Antigen Is Involved in Melting and Unwinding of the Origin
AUTOR(ES)
Jiao, Junfang
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Helicase activity is required for T antigen to unwind the simian virus 40 origin. We previously mapped this activity to residues 131 and 616. In this study, we generated a series of mutants with single-point substitutions in the helicase domain to discover other potential activities required for helicase function. A number of DNA unwinding-defective mutants were generated. Four of these mutants (456RA, 460ED, 462GA, and 499DA) were normal in their ability to hydrolyze ATP and were capable of associating into double hexamers in the presence of origin DNA. Furthermore, they possessed normal ability to bind to single-stranded DNA. However, they were severely impaired in unwinding origin-containing DNA fragments and in carrying out a helicase reaction with an M13 partial duplex DNA substrate. Interestingly, these mutants retained some ability to perform a helicase reaction with artificial replication forks, indicating that their intrinsic helicase activity was functional. Intriguingly, these mutants had almost completely lost their ability to bind to double-stranded DNA nonspecifically. The mutants also failed to melt the early palindrome region of the origin. Taken together, these results indicate that the mutations have destroyed a novel activity required for unwinding of the origin. This activity depends on the ability to bind to DNA nonspecifically, and in its absence, T antigen is unable to structurally distort and subsequently unwind the origin.
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