RecA protein-dependent R-loop formation in vitro

AUTOR(ES)

Kasahara, Megumi

FONTE

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

RESUMO

The RecA protein of Escherichia coli, which has crucial roles in homologous recombination, DNA damage repair, induction of the SOS response, and SOS mutagenesis, was found to catalyze assimilation of complementary RNA into a homologous region of a DNA duplex (R-loop). The reaction strictly requires a region of mismatch in the duplex, which may serve as a nucleation site for RecA protein polymerization. The optimum conditions for the assimilation reaction resemble those for the previously studied RecA protein-catalyzed homologous pairing and strand exchange reaction between two DNA molecules. Our finding lends strong support to the proposal that RecA protein-catalyzed assimilation of a transcript into duplex DNA results in formation of an R-loop at certain regions of the chromosome and that, when stabilized, the R-loop can serve as an origin of chromosome replication.

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