Recombinational rescue of the stalled DNA replication fork: a model based on analysis of an Escherichia coli strain with a chromosome region difficult to replicate.
AUTOR(ES)
Horiuchi, T
RESUMO
To examine the physiological effects of DNA replication arrest at the terminus (Ter), we constructed a replication-blocked Escherichia coli strain so that both bidirectional replication forks would be impeded at two flanking Ter sites, one artificial and the other natural. While the blocked strain grew slightly more slowly than a control strain, it had abnormal phenotypes similar to those of E. coli dam mutants, i.e., hyper-Rec phenotype, recA(+)- and recB+ (C+)-dependent growth, and constitutive SOS induction. The observation that these two apparently unrelated mutants cause similar phenotypes led us to design a model. We propose that the following sequential events may occur in both strains. A double-strand (ds) break occurs at the blocked replication fork in the blocked strain and at the ongoing fork in the dam mutant, through which RecBCD enzyme enters and degrades the ds DNA molecule, and the degradation product serves as the signal molecule for SOS induction. When RecBCD enzyme meets an appropriately oriented Chi sequence, its DNase activity is converted to recombinase enzyme, which is able to repair the ds end, recombinationally. this model (i) explains the puzzling phenotype of recA and recB (C) mutants and the SOS-inducing phenotype of polA, lig, and dna mutants under restrictive conditions, (ii) provides an interpretation for the role of the Chi sequence, and (iii) suggests a possible key role for homologous recombination with regard to cell survival following the arrest of DNA replication.
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