Probing the activation of the replicative origin of broad host-range plasmid R1162 with Tus, the E.coli anti-helicase protein.

AUTOR(ES)

Zhou, H S

RESUMO

The E.coli Tus protein is an anti-helicase involved in the termination of chromosome replication. The binding site for this protein, ter, was cloned into derivatives of the broad host-range plasmid R1162. The ter site caused the orientation-specific termination of plasmid replication fork movement in cell extracts containing Tus. Plasmids were constructed so that two sites for initiation of R1162 replication flanked the iteron-containing domain of the origin. In these plasmids, the site next to the AT-rich region within the iteron-containing domain was more active. In addition, when ter was placed between the more active site and the iterons, initiation of replication from this site was specifically inhibited. The data support a model for entry of the essential, plasmid-encoded helicase at one side of the direct repeats, and for its movement primarily in one direction away from these repeats to activate the initiation sites for DNA replication.

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