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Fu Q, Zheng H, Wang X, Tang F, Yu H, Wang H, Wan Z, Zheng Z, Yang Z, Liu T, Peng J. GINS1 promotes the initiation and progression of bladder cancer by activating the AKT/mTOR/c-Myc signaling pathway. Exp Cell Res 2024; 440:114125. [PMID: 38880324 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2024.114125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2024] [Revised: 05/21/2024] [Accepted: 06/07/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024]
Abstract
Bladder cancer(BC) is one of the most prevalent cancers in the urinary tract, with high recurrence and fatality rates. Research indicates that go-ichi-ni-san complex subunit 1 (GINS1) crucially influences cancer progression by regulating DNA replication through cell cycle modulation. Thus, suppressing the active proliferation of cells in tumor tissues may require silencing GINS1. However, the consequences of GINS1 in bladder cancer aren't to be determined. In this paper, we examine the role and mechanism of GINS1 in the development of bladder cancer. GINS1 expression levels and prognostic relevance in bladder cancer were validated using Western blotting, immunohistochemistry, and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. The influence of GINS1 on bladder cancer was investigated using a variety of approaches, including cell transfection, cell counts, transwell migrations, colony formation, and flow cytometry. Immunohistochemistry studies demonstrate that GINS1 expression is increased in bladder cancer tissues. GINS1 silencing resulted in an arrest of the cell cycle at the phase of G0/G1, which inhibited BC cell growth both in vitro and in vivo. GINS1 knockdown also hindered the AKT/mTOR pathway. Furthermore, increased GINS1 expression affects the cell cycle and stimulates the AKT/mTOR pathway, allowing BC to develop more quickly. Consequently, GINS1 occurs as a latent therapeutic target, particularly for individuals with BC.
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- Qiqi Fu
- Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Public Health, Wuhan University Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Urology, Jingzhou Central Hospital, Jingzhou, China.
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- Department of Plastic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
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- Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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Piguet B, Houseley J. Transcription as source of genetic heterogeneity in budding yeast. Yeast 2024; 41:171-185. [PMID: 38196235 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Revised: 12/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024] Open
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Transcription presents challenges to genome stability both directly, by altering genome topology and exposing single-stranded DNA to chemical insults and nucleases, and indirectly by introducing obstacles to the DNA replication machinery. Such obstacles include the RNA polymerase holoenzyme itself, DNA-bound regulatory factors, G-quadruplexes and RNA-DNA hybrid structures known as R-loops. Here, we review the detrimental impacts of transcription on genome stability in budding yeast, as well as the mitigating effects of transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair and of systems that maintain DNA replication fork processivity and integrity. Interactions between DNA replication and transcription have particular potential to induce mutation and structural variation, but we conclude that such interactions must have only minor effects on DNA replication by the replisome with little if any direct mutagenic outcome. However, transcription can significantly impair the fidelity of replication fork rescue mechanisms, particularly Break Induced Replication, which is used to restart collapsed replication forks when other means fail. This leads to de novo mutations, structural variation and extrachromosomal circular DNA formation that contribute to genetic heterogeneity, but only under particular conditions and in particular genetic contexts, ensuring that the bulk of the genome remains extremely stable despite the seemingly frequent interactions between transcription and DNA replication.
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Kumar C, Remus D. Looping out of control: R-loops in transcription-replication conflict. Chromosoma 2024; 133:37-56. [PMID: 37419963 PMCID: PMC10771546 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-023-00804-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2023] [Revised: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/09/2023]
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Transcription-replication conflict is a major cause of replication stress that arises when replication forks collide with the transcription machinery. Replication fork stalling at sites of transcription compromises chromosome replication fidelity and can induce DNA damage with potentially deleterious consequences for genome stability and organismal health. The block to DNA replication by the transcription machinery is complex and can involve stalled or elongating RNA polymerases, promoter-bound transcription factor complexes, or DNA topology constraints. In addition, studies over the past two decades have identified co-transcriptional R-loops as a major source for impairment of DNA replication forks at active genes. However, how R-loops impede DNA replication at the molecular level is incompletely understood. Current evidence suggests that RNA:DNA hybrids, DNA secondary structures, stalled RNA polymerases, and condensed chromatin states associated with R-loops contribute to the of fork progression. Moreover, since both R-loops and replication forks are intrinsically asymmetric structures, the outcome of R-loop-replisome collisions is influenced by collision orientation. Collectively, the data suggest that the impact of R-loops on DNA replication is highly dependent on their specific structural composition. Here, we will summarize our current understanding of the molecular basis for R-loop-induced replication fork progression defects.
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- Charanya Kumar
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, 10065, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, 10065, USA.
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Gao X, Zhou P, Li F. The multiple activations in budding yeast S-phase checkpoint are Poisson processes. PNAS NEXUS 2023; 2:pgad342. [PMID: 37941810 PMCID: PMC10629469 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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Eukaryotic cells activate the S-phase checkpoint signal transduction pathway in response to DNA replication stress. Affected by the noise in biochemical reactions, such activation process demonstrates cell-to-cell variability. Here, through the analysis of microfluidics-integrated time-lapse imaging, we found multiple S-phase checkpoint activations in a certain budding yeast cell cycle. Yeast cells not only varied in their activation moments but also differed in the number of activations within the cell cycle, resulting in a stochastic multiple activation process. By investigating dynamics at the single-cell level, we showed that stochastic waiting times between consecutive activations are exponentially distributed and independent from each other. Finite DNA replication time provides a robust upper time limit to the duration of multiple activations. The mathematical model, together with further experimental evidence from the mutant strain, revealed that the number of activations under different levels of replication stress agreed well with Poisson distribution. Therefore, the activation events of S-phase checkpoint meet the criterion of Poisson process during DNA replication. In sum, the observed Poisson activation process may provide new insights into the complex stochastic dynamics of signal transduction pathways.
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- Xin Gao
- School of Physics, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- School of Physics, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Lee J, Wu M, Inman JT, Singh G, Park SH, Lee JH, Fulbright RM, Hong Y, Jeong J, Berger JM, Wang MD. Chromatinization modulates topoisomerase II processivity. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6844. [PMID: 37891161 PMCID: PMC10611788 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42600-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Type IIA topoisomerases are essential DNA processing enzymes that must robustly and reliably relax DNA torsional stress. While cellular processes constantly create varying torsional stress, how this variation impacts type IIA topoisomerase function remains obscure. Using multiple single-molecule approaches, we examined the torsional dependence of eukaryotic topoisomerase II (topo II) activity on naked DNA and chromatin. We observed that topo II is ~50-fold more processive on buckled DNA than previously estimated. We further discovered that topo II relaxes supercoiled DNA prior to plectoneme formation, but with processivity reduced by ~100-fold. This relaxation decreases with diminishing torsion, consistent with topo II capturing transient DNA loops. Topo II retains high processivity on buckled chromatin (~10,000 turns) and becomes highly processive even on chromatin under low torsional stress (~1000 turns), consistent with chromatin's predisposition to readily form DNA crossings. This work establishes that chromatin is a major stimulant of topo II function.
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- Jaeyoon Lee
- Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Biophysics Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Biophysics Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
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Lee J, Wu M, Inman JT, Singh G, Park SH, Lee JH, Fulbright RM, Hong Y, Jeong J, Berger JM, Wang MD. Chromatinization Modulates Topoisomerase II Processivity. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.10.03.560726. [PMID: 37873421 PMCID: PMC10592930 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.03.560726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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Type IIA topoisomerases are essential DNA processing enzymes that must robustly and reliably relax DNA torsional stress in vivo. While cellular processes constantly create different degrees of torsional stress, how this stress feeds back to control type IIA topoisomerase function remains obscure. Using a suite of single-molecule approaches, we examined the torsional impact on supercoiling relaxation of both naked DNA and chromatin by eukaryotic topoisomerase II (topo II). We observed that topo II was at least ~ 50-fold more processive on plectonemic DNA than previously estimated, capable of relaxing > 6000 turns. We further discovered that topo II could relax supercoiled DNA prior to plectoneme formation, but with a ~100-fold reduction in processivity; strikingly, the relaxation rate in this regime decreased with diminishing torsion in a manner consistent with the capture of transient DNA loops by topo II. Chromatinization preserved the high processivity of the enzyme under high torsional stress. Interestingly, topo II was still highly processive (~ 1000 turns) even under low torsional stress, consistent with the predisposition of chromatin to readily form DNA crossings. This work establishes that chromatin is a major stimulant of topo II function, capable of enhancing function even under low torsional stress.
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- Jaeyoon Lee
- Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Biophysics Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Biophysics Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Birtwistle MR. Modeling the Dynamics of Eukaryotic DNA Synthesis in Remembrance of Tunde Ogunnaike. Ind Eng Chem Res 2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c02856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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- Marc R. Birtwistle
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina29631, United States
- Department of Bioengineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina29631, United States
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Zhao X, Duan B, Zhou L. Progress of Psf1 and prospects in the tumor: A review. Medicine (Baltimore) 2022; 101:e31811. [PMID: 36482653 PMCID: PMC9726354 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000031811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Partner of Sld5-1(Psf1) is a member of Gins complex, which was discovered in 2003. It consists of the predominantly α-helical A-domain and the massively β-stranded B-domain. Some researches indicate that Psf1 plays a prominent part in DNA replication through cell cycle regulation, and plays a key role in early embryo development and tissue regeneration. The overexpression of Psf1 in active proliferating cells is closely correlated with the occurrence of tumors. On the side, tumor cells with high Psf1 expression showed high heterogeneity and poor clinical prognosis. In this review, we will review the research progress of Psf1 in cell cycle regulation, immature cell proliferation and oncology.
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- Xuekai Zhao
- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Binzhou Medical University Hospital, Binzhou, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Binzhou Medical University Hospital, Binzhou, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Binzhou Medical University Hospital, Binzhou, China
- * Correspondence: Lei Zhou, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Binzhou Medical University Hospital, No. 661, Huanghe 2nd Road, Binzhou, Shandong 256603, China (e-mail: )
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Rhind N. DNA replication timing: Biochemical mechanisms and biological significance. Bioessays 2022; 44:e2200097. [PMID: 36125226 PMCID: PMC9783711 DOI: 10.1002/bies.202200097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Revised: 08/31/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The regulation of DNA replication is a fascinating biological problem both from a mechanistic angle-How is replication timing regulated?-and from an evolutionary one-Why is replication timing regulated? Recent work has provided significant insight into the first question. Detailed biochemical understanding of the mechanism and regulation of replication initiation has made possible robust hypotheses for how replication timing is regulated. Moreover, technical progress, including high-throughput, single-molecule mapping of replication initiation and single-cell assays of replication timing, has allowed for direct testing of these hypotheses in mammalian cells. This work has consolidated the conclusion that differential replication timing is a consequence of the varying probability of replication origin initiation. The second question is more difficult to directly address experimentally. Nonetheless, plausible hypotheses can be made and one-that replication timing contributes to the regulation of chromatin structure-has received new experimental support.
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- Nicholas Rhind
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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Genome-wide mapping of individual replication fork velocities using nanopore sequencing. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3295. [PMID: 35676270 PMCID: PMC9177527 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31012-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Little is known about replication fork velocity variations along eukaryotic genomes, since reference techniques to determine fork speed either provide no sequence information or suffer from low throughput. Here we present NanoForkSpeed, a nanopore sequencing-based method to map and extract the velocity of individual forks detected as tracks of the thymidine analogue bromodeoxyuridine incorporated during a brief pulse-labelling of asynchronously growing cells. NanoForkSpeed retrieves previous Saccharomyces cerevisiae mean fork speed estimates (≈2 kb/min) in the BT1 strain exhibiting highly efficient bromodeoxyuridine incorporation and wild-type growth, and precisely quantifies speed changes in cells with altered replisome progression or exposed to hydroxyurea. The positioning of >125,000 fork velocities provides a genome-wide map of fork progression based on individual fork rates, showing a uniform fork speed across yeast chromosomes except for a marked slowdown at known pausing sites. Theulot et al. introduce NanoForkSpeed, a nanopore sequencing-based method to map individual replication fork velocities on entire genomes. NFS shows that fork speed is uniform across yeast chromosomes except for a marked slowdown at pausing sites.
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Claussin C, Vazquez J, Whitehouse I. Single-molecule mapping of replisome progression. Mol Cell 2022; 82:1372-1382.e4. [PMID: 35240057 PMCID: PMC8995386 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2021] [Revised: 12/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Fundamental aspects of DNA replication, such as the anatomy of replication stall sites, how replisomes are influenced by gene transcription, and whether the progression of sister replisomes is coordinated, are poorly understood. Available techniques do not allow the precise mapping of the positions of individual replisomes on chromatin. We have developed a method called Replicon-seq that entails the excision of full-length replicons by controlled nuclease cleavage at replication forks. Replicons are sequenced using Nanopore, which provides a single-molecule readout of long DNA. Using Replicon-seq, we found that sister replisomes function autonomously and yet progress through chromatin with remarkable consistency. Replication forks that encounter obstacles pause for a short duration but rapidly resume synthesis. The helicase Rrm3 plays a critical role both in mitigating the effect of protein barriers and with facilitating efficient termination. Replicon-seq provides a high-resolution means of defining how individual replisomes move across the genome.
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- Clémence Claussin
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Tsirkas I, Dovrat D, Thangaraj M, Brouwer I, Cohen A, Paleiov Z, Meijler MM, Lenstra T, Aharoni A. Transcription-replication coordination revealed in single live cells. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 50:2143-2156. [PMID: 35137218 PMCID: PMC8887460 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2021] [Revised: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
The coexistence of DNA replication and transcription during S-phase requires their tight coordination to prevent harmful conflicts. While extensive research revealed important mechanisms for minimizing these conflicts and their consequences, little is known regarding how the replication and transcription machinery are coordinated in real-time. Here, we developed a live-cell imaging approach for the real-time monitoring of replisome progression and transcription dynamics during a transcription-replication encounter. We found a wave of partial transcriptional repression ahead of the moving replication fork, which may contribute to efficient fork progression through the transcribed gene. Real-time detection of conflicts revealed their negative impact on both processes, leading to fork stalling or slowdown as well as lower transcription levels during gene replication, with different trade-offs observed in defined subpopulations of cells. Our real-time measurements of transcription-replication encounters demonstrate how these processes can proceed simultaneously while maintaining genomic stability, and how conflicts can arise when coordination is impaired.
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- Ioannis Tsirkas
- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel
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- The Department of Chemistry and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Division of Gene Regulation, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Oncode Institute,1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel
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- The Department of Chemistry and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Division of Gene Regulation, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Oncode Institute,1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel
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Ziane R, Camasses A, Radman-Livaja M. The asymmetric distribution of RNA polymerase II and nucleosomes on replicated daughter genomes is caused by differences in replication timing between the lagging and the leading strand. Genome Res 2022; 32:337-356. [PMID: 35042724 PMCID: PMC8805712 DOI: 10.1101/gr.275387.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 12/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Chromatin features are thought to have a role in the epigenetic transmission of transcription states from one cell generation to the next. It is unclear how chromatin structure survives disruptions caused by genomic replication or whether chromatin features are instructive of the transcription state of the underlying gene. We developed a method to monitor budding yeast replication, transcription, and chromatin maturation dynamics on each daughter genome in parallel, with which we identified clusters of secondary origins surrounding known origins. We found a difference in the timing of lagging and leading strand replication on the order of minutes at most yeast genes. We propose a model in which the majority of old histones and RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) bind to the gene copy that replicated first, while newly synthesized nucleosomes are assembled on the copy that replicated second. RNAPII enrichment then shifts to the sister copy that replicated second. The order of replication is largely determined by genic orientation: If transcription and replication are codirectional, the leading strand replicates first; if they are counterdirectional, the lagging strand replicates first. A mutation in the Mcm2 subunit of the replicative helicase Mcm2-7 that impairs Mcm2 interactions with histone H3 slows down replication forks but does not qualitatively change the asymmetry in nucleosome distribution observed in the WT. We propose that active transcription states are inherited simultaneously and independently of their underlying chromatin states through the recycling of the transcription machinery and old histones, respectively. Transcription thus actively contributes to the reestablishment of the active chromatin state.
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- Rahima Ziane
- Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, UMR 5535, CNRS, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.,Université de Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, UMR 5535, CNRS, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.,Université de Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, UMR 5535, CNRS, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.,Université de Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France
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Spinks RR, Spenkelink LM, Dixon NE, van Oijen AM. Single-Molecule Insights Into the Dynamics of Replicative Helicases. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:741718. [PMID: 34513934 PMCID: PMC8426354 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.741718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Helicases are molecular motors that translocate along single-stranded DNA and unwind duplex DNA. They rely on the consumption of chemical energy from nucleotide hydrolysis to drive their translocation. Specialized helicases play a critically important role in DNA replication by unwinding DNA at the front of the replication fork. The replicative helicases of the model systems bacteriophages T4 and T7, Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been extensively studied and characterized using biochemical methods. While powerful, their averaging over ensembles of molecules and reactions makes it challenging to uncover information related to intermediate states in the unwinding process and the dynamic helicase interactions within the replisome. Here, we describe single-molecule methods that have been developed in the last few decades and discuss the new details that these methods have revealed about replicative helicases. Applying methods such as FRET and optical and magnetic tweezers to individual helicases have made it possible to access the mechanistic aspects of unwinding. It is from these methods that we understand that the replicative helicases studied so far actively translocate and then passively unwind DNA, and that these hexameric enzymes must efficiently coordinate the stepping action of their subunits to achieve unwinding, where the size of each step is prone to variation. Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy methods have made it possible to visualize replicative helicases acting at replication forks and quantify their dynamics using multi-color colocalization, FRAP and FLIP. These fluorescence methods have made it possible to visualize helicases in replication initiation and dissect this intricate protein-assembly process. In a similar manner, single-molecule visualization of fluorescent replicative helicases acting in replication identified that, in contrast to the replicative polymerases, the helicase does not exchange. Instead, the replicative helicase acts as the stable component that serves to anchor the other replication factors to the replisome.
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- Richard R Spinks
- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.,Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.,Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.,Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.,Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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McClure AW, Diffley JF. Rad53 checkpoint kinase regulation of DNA replication fork rate via Mrc1 phosphorylation. eLife 2021; 10:69726. [PMID: 34387546 PMCID: PMC8387023 DOI: 10.7554/elife.69726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2021] [Accepted: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The Rad53 DNA checkpoint protein kinase plays multiple roles in the budding yeast cell response to DNA replication stress. Key amongst these is its enigmatic role in safeguarding DNA replication forks. Using DNA replication reactions reconstituted with purified proteins, we show Rad53 phosphorylation of Sld3/7 or Dbf4-dependent kinase blocks replication initiation whilst phosphorylation of Mrc1 or Mcm10 slows elongation. Mrc1 phosphorylation is necessary and sufficient to slow replication forks in complete reactions; Mcm10 phosphorylation can also slow replication forks, but only in the absence of unphosphorylated Mrc1. Mrc1 stimulates the unwinding rate of the replicative helicase, CMG, and Rad53 phosphorylation of Mrc1 prevents this. We show that a phosphorylation-mimicking Mrc1 mutant cannot stimulate replication in vitro and partially rescues the sensitivity of a rad53 null mutant to genotoxic stress in vivo. Our results show that Rad53 protects replication forks in part by antagonising Mrc1 stimulation of CMG unwinding.
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- Allison W McClure
- Chromosome Replication Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Chromosome Replication Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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Organization of DNA Replication Origin Firing in Xenopus Egg Extracts: The Role of Intra-S Checkpoint. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12081224. [PMID: 34440398 PMCID: PMC8394201 DOI: 10.3390/genes12081224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Revised: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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During cell division, the duplication of the genome starts at multiple positions called replication origins. Origin firing requires the interaction of rate-limiting factors with potential origins during the S(ynthesis)-phase of the cell cycle. Origins fire as synchronous clusters which is proposed to be regulated by the intra-S checkpoint. By modelling the unchallenged, the checkpoint-inhibited and the checkpoint protein Chk1 over-expressed replication pattern of single DNA molecules from Xenopus sperm chromatin replicated in egg extracts, we demonstrate that the quantitative modelling of data requires: (1) a segmentation of the genome into regions of low and high probability of origin firing; (2) that regions with high probability of origin firing escape intra-S checkpoint regulation and (3) the variability of the rate of DNA synthesis close to replication forks is a necessary ingredient that should be taken in to account in order to describe the dynamic of replication origin firing. This model implies that the observed origin clustering emerges from the apparent synchrony of origin firing in regions with high probability of origin firing and challenge the assumption that the intra-S checkpoint is the main regulator of origin clustering.
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Kemiha S, Poli J, Lin YL, Lengronne A, Pasero P. Toxic R-loops: Cause or consequence of replication stress? DNA Repair (Amst) 2021; 107:103199. [PMID: 34399314 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2021.103199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Revised: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Transcription-replication conflicts (TRCs) represent a potential source of endogenous replication stress (RS) and genomic instability in eukaryotic cells but the mechanisms that underlie this instability remain poorly understood. Part of the problem could come from non-B DNA structures called R-loops, which are formed of a RNA:DNA hybrid and a displaced ssDNA loop. In this review, we discuss different scenarios in which R-loops directly or indirectly interfere with DNA replication. We also present other types of TRCs that may not depend on R-loops to impede fork progression. Finally, we discuss alternative models in which toxic RNA:DNA hybrids form at stalled forks as a consequence - but not a cause - of replication stress and interfere with replication resumption.
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- Samira Kemiha
- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS et Université de Montpellier, Equipe labélisée Ligue contre le Cancer, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS et Université de Montpellier, Equipe labélisée Ligue contre le Cancer, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS et Université de Montpellier, Equipe labélisée Ligue contre le Cancer, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS et Université de Montpellier, Equipe labélisée Ligue contre le Cancer, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS et Université de Montpellier, Equipe labélisée Ligue contre le Cancer, Montpellier, France.
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Guilliam TA. Mechanisms for Maintaining Eukaryotic Replisome Progression in the Presence of DNA Damage. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:712971. [PMID: 34295925 PMCID: PMC8290200 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.712971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The eukaryotic replisome coordinates template unwinding and nascent-strand synthesis to drive DNA replication fork progression and complete efficient genome duplication. During its advancement along the parental template, each replisome may encounter an array of obstacles including damaged and structured DNA that impede its progression and threaten genome stability. A number of mechanisms exist to permit replisomes to overcome such obstacles, maintain their progression, and prevent fork collapse. A combination of recent advances in structural, biochemical, and single-molecule approaches have illuminated the architecture of the replisome during unperturbed replication, rationalised the impact of impediments to fork progression, and enhanced our understanding of DNA damage tolerance mechanisms and their regulation. This review focusses on these studies to provide an updated overview of the mechanisms that support replisomes to maintain their progression on an imperfect template.
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- Thomas A. Guilliam
- Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Shyian M, Shore D. Approaching Protein Barriers: Emerging Mechanisms of Replication Pausing in Eukaryotes. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:672510. [PMID: 34124054 PMCID: PMC8194067 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.672510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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During nuclear DNA replication multiprotein replisome machines have to jointly traverse and duplicate the total length of each chromosome during each cell cycle. At certain genomic locations replisomes encounter tight DNA-protein complexes and slow down. This fork pausing is an active process involving recognition of a protein barrier by the approaching replisome via an evolutionarily conserved Fork Pausing/Protection Complex (FPC). Action of the FPC protects forks from collapse at both programmed and accidental protein barriers, thus promoting genome integrity. In addition, FPC stimulates the DNA replication checkpoint and regulates topological transitions near the replication fork. Eukaryotic cells have been proposed to employ physiological programmed fork pausing for various purposes, such as maintaining copy number at repetitive loci, precluding replication-transcription encounters, regulating kinetochore assembly, or controlling gene conversion events during mating-type switching. Here we review the growing number of approaches used to study replication pausing in vivo and in vitro as well as the characterization of additional factors recently reported to modulate fork pausing in different systems. Specifically, we focus on the positive role of topoisomerases in fork pausing. We describe a model where replisome progression is inherently cautious, which ensures general preservation of fork stability and genome integrity but can also carry out specialized functions at certain loci. Furthermore, we highlight classical and novel outstanding questions in the field and propose venues for addressing them. Given how little is known about replisome pausing at protein barriers in human cells more studies are required to address how conserved these mechanisms are.
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- Maksym Shyian
- Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Genetics and Genomics of Geneva (iGE3), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Genetics and Genomics of Geneva (iGE3), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Rapsomaniki MA, Maxouri S, Nathanailidou P, Garrastacho MR, Giakoumakis NN, Taraviras S, Lygeros J, Lygerou Z. In silico analysis of DNA re-replication across a complete genome reveals cell-to-cell heterogeneity and genome plasticity. NAR Genom Bioinform 2021; 3:lqaa112. [PMID: 33554116 PMCID: PMC7846089 DOI: 10.1093/nargab/lqaa112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Revised: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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DNA replication is a complex and remarkably robust process: despite its inherent uncertainty, manifested through stochastic replication timing at a single-cell level, multiple control mechanisms ensure its accurate and timely completion across a population. Disruptions in these mechanisms lead to DNA re-replication, closely connected to genomic instability and oncogenesis. Here, we present a stochastic hybrid model of DNA re-replication that accurately portrays the interplay between discrete dynamics, continuous dynamics and uncertainty. Using experimental data on the fission yeast genome, model simulations show how different regions respond to re-replication and permit insight into the key mechanisms affecting re-replication dynamics. Simulated and experimental population-level profiles exhibit a good correlation along the genome, robust to model parameters, validating our approach. At a single-cell level, copy numbers of individual loci are affected by intrinsic properties of each locus, in cis effects from adjoining loci and in trans effects from distant loci. In silico analysis and single-cell imaging reveal that cell-to-cell heterogeneity is inherent in re-replication and can lead to genome plasticity and a plethora of genotypic variations.
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- Maria Anna Rapsomaniki
- Department of Biology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26500 Rio Patras, Greece
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- Department of Biology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26500 Rio Patras, Greece
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- Department of Biology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26500 Rio Patras, Greece
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26500 Rio Patras, Greece
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- Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26500 Rio Patras, Greece
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Li H, Zheng F, O'Donnell M. Water skating: How polymerase sliding clamps move on DNA. FEBS J 2021; 288:7256-7262. [PMID: 33523561 DOI: 10.1111/febs.15740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2020] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Polymerase sliding clamps are ring-shaped proteins that encircle duplex DNA and hold polymerases to DNA for high processivity during synthesis. The crystal structure of clamp-DNA complex reveals that the DNA is highly tilted through the clamp with extensive interaction with the clamp inner surface. In contrast to the tilted clamp-DNA interaction without DNA polymerases, recent structures of replicative polymerases of bacteria, eukaryotes, and archaea that are bound to the clamp and DNA show that the polymerase positions DNA straight through the clamp without direct protein-DNA contacts. Instead, the clamp-to-DNA interaction is mediated by one or two layers of water. Hence, clamps 'water skate' on DNA during function with replicative polymerases from all domains of life, providing a nearly frictionless bearing for fast and processive DNA synthesis.
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- Huilin Li
- Department of Structural Biology, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
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- DNA Replication Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.,HHMI, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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Da Silva MS. Estimation of the Minimum Number of Replication Origins Per Chromosome in any Organism. Bio Protoc 2020; 10:e3798. [PMID: 33659452 PMCID: PMC7842629 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.3798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Eukaryote nuclear genomes predominantly replicate through multiple replication origins. The number of replication origins activated per chromosome during the S-phase duration may vary according to many factors, but the predominant one is replication stress. Several studies have applied different approaches to estimate the number and map the positions of the replication origins in various organisms. However, without a parameter to restrict the minimum of necessary origins, less sensitive techniques may suggest conflicting results. The estimation of the minimum number of replication origins (MO) per chromosome is an innovative method that allows the establishment of a threshold, which serves as a parameter for genomic approaches that map origins. For this, the MO can be easily obtained through a formula that requires as parameters: chromosome size, S-phase duration, and replication rate. The chromosome size for any organism can be acquired in genomic databanks (such as NCBI), the S-phase duration can be estimated by monitoring DNA replication, and the replication rate is obtained through the DNA combing approach. The estimation of MO is a simple, quick, and easy method that provides a new methodological framework to assist studies of mapping replication origins in any organism.
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- Marcelo S. Da Silva
- Cell Cycle Laboratory, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling (CeTICS), Butantan Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Biosciences Institute, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
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Kapadia N, El-Hajj ZW, Zheng H, Beattie TR, Yu A, Reyes-Lamothe R. Processive Activity of Replicative DNA Polymerases in the Replisome of Live Eukaryotic Cells. Mol Cell 2020; 80:114-126.e8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2019] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Le TT, Gao X, Park SH, Lee J, Inman JT, Lee JH, Killian JL, Badman RP, Berger JM, Wang MD. Synergistic Coordination of Chromatin Torsional Mechanics and Topoisomerase Activity. Cell 2020; 179:619-631.e15. [PMID: 31626768 PMCID: PMC6899335 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.09.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 06/16/2019] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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DNA replication in eukaryotes generates DNA supercoiling, which may intertwine (braid) daughter chromatin fibers to form precatenanes, posing topological challenges during chromosome segregation. The mechanisms that limit precatenane formation remain unclear. By making direct torque measurements, we demonstrate that the intrinsic mechanical properties of chromatin play a fundamental role in dictating precatenane formation and regulating chromatin topology. Whereas a single chromatin fiber is torsionally soft, a braided fiber is torsionally stiff, indicating that supercoiling on chromatin substrates is preferentially directed in front of the fork during replication. We further show that topoisomerase II relaxation displays a strong preference for a single chromatin fiber over a braided fiber. These results suggest a synergistic coordination-the mechanical properties of chromatin inherently suppress precatenane formation during replication elongation by driving DNA supercoiling ahead of the fork, where supercoiling is more efficiently removed by topoisomerase II. VIDEO ABSTRACT.
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- Tung T Le
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Biophysics Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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Comparative Analysis of the Minimum Number of Replication Origins in Trypanosomatids and Yeasts. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:genes11050523. [PMID: 32397111 PMCID: PMC7288466 DOI: 10.3390/genes11050523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Single-celled eukaryote genomes predominantly replicate through multiple origins. Although origin usage during the S-phase has been elucidated in some of these organisms, few studies have comparatively approached this dynamic. Here, we developed a user-friendly website able to calculate the length of the cell cycle phases for any organism. Next, using a formula developed by our group, we showed a comparative analysis among the minimum number of replication origins (MO) required to duplicate an entire chromosome within the S-phase duration in trypanosomatids (Trypanosoma cruzi, Leishmania major, and Trypanosoma brucei) and yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe). Using the data obtained by our analysis, it was possible to predict the MO required in a situation of replication stress. Also, our findings allow establishing a threshold for the number of origins, which serves as a parameter for genome approaches that map origins. Moreover, our data suggest that when compared to yeasts, trypanosomatids use much more origins than the minimum needed. This is the first time a comparative analysis of the minimum number of origins has been successfully applied. These data may provide new insight into the understanding of the replication mechanism and a new methodological framework for studying single-celled eukaryote genomes.
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Wasserman MR, Schauer GD, O'Donnell ME, Liu S. Replication Fork Activation Is Enabled by a Single-Stranded DNA Gate in CMG Helicase. Cell 2020; 178:600-611.e16. [PMID: 31348887 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.06.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2018] [Revised: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The eukaryotic replicative helicase CMG is a closed ring around double-stranded (ds)DNA at origins yet must transition to single-stranded (ss)DNA for helicase action. CMG must also handle repair intermediates, such as reversed forks that lack ssDNA. Here, using correlative single-molecule fluorescence and force microscopy, we show that CMG harbors a ssDNA gate that enables transitions between ss and dsDNA. When coupled to DNA polymerase, CMG remains on ssDNA, but when uncoupled, CMG employs this gate to traverse forked junctions onto dsDNA. Surprisingly, CMG undergoes rapid diffusion on dsDNA and can transition back onto ssDNA to nucleate a functional replisome. The gate-distinct from that between Mcm2/5 used for origin loading-is intrinsic to CMG; however, Mcm10 promotes strand passage by enhancing the affinity of CMG to DNA. This gating process may explain the dsDNA-to-ssDNA transition of CMG at origins and help preserve CMG on dsDNA during fork repair.
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- Michael R Wasserman
- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of DNA Replication, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of DNA Replication, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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DNA copy-number measurement of genome replication dynamics by high-throughput sequencing: the sort-seq, sync-seq and MFA-seq family. Nat Protoc 2020; 15:1255-1284. [PMID: 32051615 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-019-0287-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
Genome replication follows a defined temporal programme that can change during cellular differentiation and disease onset. DNA replication results in an increase in DNA copy number that can be measured by high-throughput sequencing. Here we present a protocol to determine genome replication dynamics using DNA copy-number measurements. Cell populations can be obtained in three variants of the method. First, sort-seq reveals the average replication dynamics across S phase in an unperturbed cell population; FACS is used to isolate replicating and non-replicating subpopulations from asynchronous cells. Second, sync-seq measures absolute replication time at specific points during S phase using a synchronized cell population. Third, marker frequency analysis can be used to reveal the average replication dynamics using copy-number analysis in any proliferating asynchronous cell culture. These approaches have been used to reveal genome replication dynamics in prokaryotes, archaea and a wide range of eukaryotes, including yeasts and mammalian cells. We have found this approach straightforward to apply to other organisms and highlight example studies from across the three domains of life. Here we present a Saccharomyces cerevisiae version of the protocol that can be performed in 7-10 d. It requires basic molecular and cellular biology skills, as well as a basic understanding of Unix and R.
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Chong SY, Cutler S, Lin JJ, Tsai CH, Tsai HK, Biggins S, Tsukiyama T, Lo YC, Kao CF. H3K4 methylation at active genes mitigates transcription-replication conflicts during replication stress. Nat Commun 2020; 11:809. [PMID: 32041946 PMCID: PMC7010754 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14595-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Transcription-replication conflicts (TRCs) occur when intensive transcriptional activity compromises replication fork stability, potentially leading to gene mutations. Transcription-deposited H3K4 methylation (H3K4me) is associated with regions that are susceptible to TRCs; however, the interplay between H3K4me and TRCs is unknown. Here we show that H3K4me aggravates TRC-induced replication failure in checkpoint-defective cells, and the presence of methylated H3K4 slows down ongoing replication. Both S-phase checkpoint activity and H3K4me are crucial for faithful DNA synthesis under replication stress, especially in highly transcribed regions where the presence of H3K4me is highest and TRCs most often occur. H3K4me mitigates TRCs by decelerating ongoing replication, analogous to how speed bumps slow down cars. These findings establish the concept that H3K4me defines the transcriptional status of a genomic region and defends the genome from TRC-mediated replication stress and instability. Transcription-replication conflicts (TRC) can contribute to genome instability. Here the authors reveal that under replication stress H3K4 methylation can play a role in TRC prevention.
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- Shin Yen Chong
- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, 10051, Taiwan
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- Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Graduate Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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Yousefi R, Rowicka M. Stochasticity of replication forks' speeds plays a key role in the dynamics of DNA replication. PLoS Comput Biol 2019; 15:e1007519. [PMID: 31869320 PMCID: PMC6975548 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic DNA replication is elaborately orchestrated to duplicate the genome timely and faithfully. Replication initiates at multiple origins from which replication forks emanate and travel bi-directionally. The complex spatio-temporal regulation of DNA replication remains incompletely understood. To study it, computational models of DNA replication have been developed in S. cerevisiae. However, in spite of the experimental evidence of forks’ speed stochasticity, all models assumed that forks’ speeds are the same. Here, we present the first model of DNA replication assuming that speeds vary stochastically between forks. Utilizing data from both wild-type and hydroxyurea-treated yeast cells, we show that our model is more accurate than models assuming constant forks’ speed and reconstructs dynamics of DNA replication faithfully starting both from population-wide data and data reflecting fork movement in individual cells. Completion of replication in a timely manner is a challenge due to its stochasticity; we propose an empirically derived modification to replication speed based on the distance to the approaching fork, which promotes timely completion of replication. In summary, our work discovers a key role that stochasticity of the forks’ speed plays in the dynamics of DNA replication. We show that without including stochasticity of forks’ speed it is not possible to accurately reconstruct movement of individual replication forks, measured by DNA combing. DNA replication in eukaryotes starts from multiple sites termed replication origins. Replication timing at individual sites is stochastic, but reproducible population-wide. Complex and not yet completely understood mechanisms ensure that genome is replicated exactly once and that replication is finished in time. This complex spatio-temporal organization of DNA replication makes computational modeling a useful tool to study replication mechanisms. For simplicity, all previous models assumed constant replication forks’ speed. Here, we show that such models are incapable of accurately reconstructing distances travelled by individual replication forks. Therefore, we propose a model assuming that replication speed varies stochastically between forks. We show that such model reproduces faithfully distances travelled by individual replication forks. Moreover, our model is simpler than previous model and thus avoids over-learning (fitting noise). We also discover how replication speed may be attuned to timely complete replication. We propose that forks’ speed increases with diminishing distance to the approaching fork, which we show promotes timely completion of replication. Such speed up can be e.g. explained by a synergy effect of chromatin unwinding by both forks. Our model can be used to simulate phenomena beyond replication, e.g. DNA double-strand breaks resulting from broken replication forks.
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- Razie Yousefi
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
- Institute of Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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Dovrat D, Dahan D, Sherman S, Tsirkas I, Elia N, Aharoni A. A Live-Cell Imaging Approach for Measuring DNA Replication Rates. Cell Rep 2019; 24:252-258. [PMID: 29972785 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Revised: 04/02/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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We describe a simple and direct approach to measure the progression of single DNA replication forks in living cells by monitoring two fluorescently labeled loci downstream of an origin of replication. We employ this approach to investigate the roles of several leading and lagging strand factors in overall replisome function and show that fork progression is strongly dependent on proper maturation of Okazaki fragments. We also demonstrate how related cellular phenotypes, such as cell-cycle progression and the dynamics of sister chromatid cohesion, may be simultaneously monitored and correlated to DNA replication at the single-cell level.
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- Daniel Dovrat
- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 8410501, Israel.
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- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 8410501, Israel.
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Lewis JS, Spenkelink LM, Schauer GD, Yurieva O, Mueller SH, Natarajan V, Kaur G, Maher C, Kay C, O'Donnell ME, van Oijen AM. Tunability of DNA Polymerase Stability during Eukaryotic DNA Replication. Mol Cell 2019; 77:17-25.e5. [PMID: 31704183 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Revised: 08/25/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Structural and biochemical studies have revealed the basic principles of how the replisome duplicates genomic DNA, but little is known about its dynamics during DNA replication. We reconstitute the 34 proteins needed to form the S. cerevisiae replisome and show how changing local concentrations of the key DNA polymerases tunes the ability of the complex to efficiently recycle these proteins or to dynamically exchange them. Particularly, we demonstrate redundancy of the Pol α-primase DNA polymerase activity in replication and show that Pol α-primase and the lagging-strand Pol δ can be re-used within the replisome to support the synthesis of large numbers of Okazaki fragments. This unexpected malleability of the replisome might allow it to deal with barriers and resource challenges during replication of large genomes.
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- Jacob S Lewis
- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Laboratory of DNA Replication, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
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- Laboratory of DNA Replication, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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- Molecular Horizons and School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.
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Winczura A, Appanah R, Tatham MH, Hay RT, De Piccoli G. The S phase checkpoint promotes the Smc5/6 complex dependent SUMOylation of Pol2, the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase ε. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1008427. [PMID: 31765407 PMCID: PMC6876773 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 09/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Replication fork stalling and accumulation of single-stranded DNA trigger the S phase checkpoint, a signalling cascade that, in budding yeast, leads to the activation of the Rad53 kinase. Rad53 is essential in maintaining cell viability, but its targets of regulation are still partially unknown. Here we show that Rad53 drives the hyper-SUMOylation of Pol2, the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase ε, principally following replication forks stalling induced by nucleotide depletion. Pol2 is the main target of SUMOylation within the replisome and its modification requires the SUMO-ligase Mms21, a subunit of the Smc5/6 complex. Moreover, the Smc5/6 complex co-purifies with Pol ε, independently of other replisome components. Finally, we map Pol2 SUMOylation to a single site within the N-terminal catalytic domain and identify a SUMO-interacting motif at the C-terminus of Pol2. These data suggest that the S phase checkpoint regulate Pol ε during replication stress through Pol2 SUMOylation and SUMO-binding ability.
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- Alicja Winczura
- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
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Zhou ZX, Lujan SA, Burkholder AB, Garbacz MA, Kunkel TA. Roles for DNA polymerase δ in initiating and terminating leading strand DNA replication. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3992. [PMID: 31488849 PMCID: PMC6728351 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11995-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2019] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Most current evidence indicates that DNA polymerases ε and δ, respectively, perform the bulk of leading and lagging strand replication of the eukaryotic nuclear genome. Given that ribonucleotide and mismatch incorporation rates by these replicases influence somatic and germline patterns of variation, it is important to understand the details and exceptions to this overall division of labor. Using an improved method to map where these replicases incorporate ribonucleotides during replication, here we present evidence that DNA polymerase δ universally participates in initiating leading strand synthesis and that nascent leading strand synthesis switches from Pol ε to Pol δ during replication termination. Ribonucleotide maps from both the budding and fission yeast reveal conservation of these processes. These observations of replisome dynamics provide important insight into the mechanisms of eukaryotic replication and genome maintenance.
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- Zhi-Xiong Zhou
- Genome Integrity & Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity & Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Integrative Bioinformatics Support Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity & Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity & Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA.
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A quest for coordination among activities at the replisome. Biochem Soc Trans 2019; 47:1067-1075. [PMID: 31395754 DOI: 10.1042/bst20180402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2019] [Revised: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 07/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Faithful DNA replication is required for transmission of the genetic material across generations. The basic mechanisms underlying this process are shared among all organisms: progressive unwinding of the long double-stranded DNA; synthesis of RNA primers; and synthesis of a new DNA chain. These activities are invariably performed by a multi-component machine called the replisome. A detailed description of this molecular machine has been achieved in prokaryotes and phages, with the replication processes in eukaryotes being comparatively less known. However, recent breakthroughs in the in vitro reconstitution of eukaryotic replisomes have resulted in valuable insight into their functions and mechanisms. In conjunction with the developments in eukaryotic replication, an emerging overall view of replisomes as dynamic protein ensembles is coming into fruition. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the recent insights into the dynamic nature of the bacterial replisome, revealed through single-molecule techniques, and to describe some aspects of the eukaryotic replisome under this framework. We primarily focus on Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), since a significant amount of literature is available for these two model organisms. We end with a description of the methods of live-cell fluorescence microscopy for the characterization of replisome dynamics.
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Capturing the dynamics of genome replication on individual ultra-long nanopore sequence reads. Nat Methods 2019; 16:429-436. [PMID: 31011185 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-019-0394-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2018] [Accepted: 03/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Replication of eukaryotic genomes is highly stochastic, making it difficult to determine the replication dynamics of individual molecules with existing methods. We report a sequencing method for the measurement of replication fork movement on single molecules by detecting nucleotide analog signal currents on extremely long nanopore traces (D-NAscent). Using this method, we detect 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporated by Saccharomyces cerevisiae to reveal, at a genomic scale and on single molecules, the DNA sequences replicated during a pulse-labeling period. Under conditions of limiting BrdU concentration, D-NAscent detects the differences in BrdU incorporation frequency across individual molecules to reveal the location of active replication origins, fork direction, termination sites, and fork pausing/stalling events. We used sequencing reads of 20-160 kilobases to generate a whole-genome single-molecule map of DNA replication dynamics and discover a class of low-frequency stochastic origins in budding yeast. The D-NAscent software is available at https://github.com/MBoemo/DNAscent.git .
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Bazarova A, Nieduszynski CA, Akerman I, Burroughs NJ. Bayesian inference of origin firing time distributions, origin interference and licencing probabilities from Next Generation Sequencing data. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:2229-2243. [PMID: 30859196 PMCID: PMC6412128 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2018] [Revised: 01/27/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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DNA replication is a stochastic process with replication forks emanating from multiple replication origins. The origins must be licenced in G1, and the replisome activated at licenced origins in order to generate bi-directional replication forks in S-phase. Differential firing times lead to origin interference, where a replication fork from an origin can replicate through and inactivate neighbouring origins (origin obscuring). We developed a Bayesian algorithm to characterize origin firing statistics from Okazaki fragment (OF) sequencing data. Our algorithm infers the distributions of firing times and the licencing probabilities for three consecutive origins. We demonstrate that our algorithm can distinguish partial origin licencing and origin obscuring in OF sequencing data from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and human cell types. We used our method to analyse the decreased origin efficiency under loss of Rat1 activity in S. cerevisiae, demonstrating that both reduced licencing and increased obscuring contribute. Moreover, we show that robust analysis is possible using only local data (across three neighbouring origins), and analysis of the whole chromosome is not required. Our algorithm utilizes an approximate likelihood and a reversible jump sampling technique, a methodology that can be extended to analysis of other mechanistic processes measurable through Next Generation Sequencing data.
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- Alina Bazarova
- Centre for Computational Biology, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Mathematics Institute and Zeeman Institute (SBIDER), University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Gurova K, Chang HW, Valieva ME, Sandlesh P, Studitsky VM. Structure and function of the histone chaperone FACT - Resolving FACTual issues. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2018; 1861:S1874-9399(18)30159-7. [PMID: 30055319 PMCID: PMC6349528 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2018.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Revised: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 07/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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FAcilitates Chromatin Transcription (FACT) has been considered essential for transcription through chromatin mostly based on cell-free experiments. However, FACT inactivation in cells does not cause a significant reduction in transcription. Moreover, not all mammalian cells require FACT for viability. Here we synthesize information from different organisms to reveal the core function(s) of FACT and propose a model that reconciles the cell-free and cell-based observations. We describe FACT structure and nucleosomal interactions, and their roles in FACT-dependent transcription, replication and repair. The variable requirements for FACT among different tumor and non-tumor cells suggest that various FACT-dependent processes have significantly different levels of relative importance in different eukaryotic cells. We propose that the stability of chromatin, which might vary among different cell types, dictates these diverse requirements for FACT to support cell viability. Since tumor cells are among the most sensitive to FACT inhibition, this vulnerability could be exploited for cancer treatment.
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- Katerina Gurova
- Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
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- Biology Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA; Biology Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
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Arbona JM, Goldar A, Hyrien O, Arneodo A, Audit B. The eukaryotic bell-shaped temporal rate of DNA replication origin firing emanates from a balance between origin activation and passivation. eLife 2018; 7:35192. [PMID: 29856315 PMCID: PMC6033540 DOI: 10.7554/elife.35192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The time-dependent rate I(t) of origin firing per length of unreplicated DNA presents a universal bell shape in eukaryotes that has been interpreted as the result of a complex time-evolving interaction between origins and limiting firing factors. Here, we show that a normal diffusion of replication fork components towards localized potential replication origins (p-oris) can more simply account for the I(t) universal bell shape, as a consequence of a competition between the origin firing time and the time needed to replicate DNA separating two neighboring p-oris. We predict the I(t) maximal value to be the product of the replication fork speed with the squared p-ori density. We show that this relation is robustly observed in simulations and in experimental data for several eukaryotes. Our work underlines that fork-component recycling and potential origins localization are sufficient spatial ingredients to explain the universality of DNA replication kinetics. Before a cell can divide, it must duplicate its DNA. In eukaryotes – organisms such as animals and fungi, which store their DNA in the cell’s nucleus – DNA replication starts at specific sites in the genome called replication origins. At each origin sits a protein complex that will activate when it randomly captures an activating protein that diffuses within the nucleus. Once a replication origin activates or “fires”, the complex then splits into two new complexes that move away from each other as they duplicate the DNA. If an active complex collides with an inactive one at another origin, the latter is inactivated – a phenomenon known as origin passivation. When two active complexes meet, they release the activating proteins, which diffuse away and eventually activate other origins in unreplicated DNA. The number of origins that activate each minute divided by the length of unreplicated DNA is referred to as the “rate of origin firing”. In all eukaryotes, this rate – also known as I(t) – follows the same pattern. First, it increases until more than half of the DNA is duplicated. Then it decreases until everything is duplicated. This means that, if plotted out, the graph of origin firing rate would always be a bell-shaped curve, even for organisms with genomes of different sizes that have different numbers of origins. The reason for this universal shape remained unclear. Scientists had tried to create numerical simulations that model the rate of origin firing. However, for these simulations to reproduce the bell-shape curve, a number of untested assumptions had to be made about how DNA replication takes place. In addition, these models ignored the fact that it takes time to replicate the DNA between origins. To take this time into account, Arbona et al. instead decided to model the replication origins as discrete and distinct entities. This way of building the mathematical model succeeded in reproducing the universal bell curve shape without additional assumptions. With this simulation, the balance between origin activation and passivation is enough to achieve the observed pattern. The new model also predicts that the maximum rate of origin firing is determined by the speed of DNA replication and the density of origins in the genome. Arbona et al. verified this prediction in yeast, fly, frog and human cells – organisms with different sized genomes that take between 20 minutes and 8 hours to replicate their DNA. Lastly, the prediction also held true in yeast treated with hydroxyurea, an anticancer drug that slows DNA replication. A better understanding of DNA replication can help scientists to understand how this process is perturbed in cancers and how drugs that target DNA replication can treat these diseases. Future work will explore how the 3D organization of the genome affects the diffusion of activating proteins within the cell nucleus.
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- Jean-Michel Arbona
- Laboratoire de Physique, Université de Lyon, Ens de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Lyon, France
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- Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- LOMA, Univ de Bordeaux, CNRS, UMR 5798, Talence, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique, Université de Lyon, Ens de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Lyon, France
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Zhang W, Yeung CHL, Wu L, Yuen KWY. E3 ubiquitin ligase Bre1 couples sister chromatid cohesion establishment to DNA replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. eLife 2017; 6:28231. [PMID: 29058668 PMCID: PMC5699866 DOI: 10.7554/elife.28231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2017] [Accepted: 10/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Bre1, a conserved E3 ubiquitin ligase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, together with its interacting partner Lge1, are responsible for histone H2B monoubiquitination, which regulates transcription, DNA replication, and DNA damage response and repair, ensuring the structural integrity of the genome. Deletion of BRE1 or LGE1 also results in whole chromosome instability. We discovered a novel role for Bre1, Lge1 and H2Bub1 in chromosome segregation and sister chromatid cohesion. Bre1’s function in G1 and S phases contributes to cohesion establishment, but it is not required for cohesion maintenance in G2 phase. Bre1 is dispensable for the loading of cohesin complex to chromatin in G1, but regulates the localization of replication factor Mcm10 and cohesion establishment factors Ctf4, Ctf18 and Eco1 to early replication origins in G1 and S phases, and promotes cohesin subunit Smc3 acetylation for cohesion stabilization. H2Bub1 epigenetically marks the origins, potentially signaling the coupling of DNA replication and cohesion establishment. Most of the DNA in a cell is stored in structures called chromosomes. During every cell cycle, each cell needs to replicate its chromosomes, hold the two chromosome copies (also known as “sister chromatids”) together before cell division, and distribute them equally to the two new cells. Each step must be executed accurately otherwise the new cells will have extra or missing chromosomes – a condition that is seen in many cancer cells and that can cause embryos to die. Since these processes are so essential to life, they are highly similar in a range of species, from single-celled organisms such as yeast to multicellular organisms like humans. However, it was not clear when and how sister chromatids first join together, or how this process is linked to DNA replication. The DNA in the sister chromatids is wrapped around proteins called histones to form a structure known as chromatin. An enzyme called Bre1 plays roles in gene transcription and DNA replication and repair by adding ubiquitin molecules to a histone called H2B. Now, by using genetic, molecular and cell biological approaches to study baker and brewer yeast cells, Zhang et al. show that the activity of Bre1 helps to hold sister chromatids together. Specifically, Bre1 recruits proteins to the chromatin before and during DNA replication, which help to initiate replication and to establish cohesion between the sister chromatids. The ubiquitin molecule attached to H2B by Bre1 is also essential for establishing cohesion, acting as a mark that helps to link the two processes. In the future it will be worthwhile to investigate whether genetic mutations that prevent sister chromatids adhering to each other is a major cause of the chromosome abnormalities seen in cancer cells. This knowledge may be useful for diagnosing cancers. Drugs that prevent the activity of Bre1 and other proteins involved in holding together sister chromatids could also be developed as potential cancer treatments that kill cancer cells by causing instability in their number of chromosomes.
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- Wei Zhang
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Zhang W, Yeung CHL, Wu L, Yuen KWY. E3 ubiquitin ligase Bre1 couples sister chromatid cohesion establishment to DNA replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. eLife 2017; 6:28231. [PMID: 29058668 DOI: 10.7554/elife.28231.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2017] [Accepted: 10/22/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023] Open
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Bre1, a conserved E3 ubiquitin ligase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, together with its interacting partner Lge1, are responsible for histone H2B monoubiquitination, which regulates transcription, DNA replication, and DNA damage response and repair, ensuring the structural integrity of the genome. Deletion of BRE1 or LGE1 also results in whole chromosome instability. We discovered a novel role for Bre1, Lge1 and H2Bub1 in chromosome segregation and sister chromatid cohesion. Bre1's function in G1 and S phases contributes to cohesion establishment, but it is not required for cohesion maintenance in G2 phase. Bre1 is dispensable for the loading of cohesin complex to chromatin in G1, but regulates the localization of replication factor Mcm10 and cohesion establishment factors Ctf4, Ctf18 and Eco1 to early replication origins in G1 and S phases, and promotes cohesin subunit Smc3 acetylation for cohesion stabilization. H2Bub1 epigenetically marks the origins, potentially signaling the coupling of DNA replication and cohesion establishment.
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- Wei Zhang
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Single-molecule visualization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae leading-strand synthesis reveals dynamic interaction between MTC and the replisome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:10630-10635. [PMID: 28923950 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1711291114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The replisome, the multiprotein system responsible for genome duplication, is a highly dynamic complex displaying a large number of different enzyme activities. Recently, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae minimal replication reaction has been successfully reconstituted in vitro. This provided an opportunity to uncover the enzymatic activities of many of the components in a eukaryotic system. Their dynamic behavior and interactions in the context of the replisome, however, remain unclear. We use a tethered-bead assay to provide real-time visualization of leading-strand synthesis by the S. cerevisiae replisome at the single-molecule level. The minimal reconstituted leading-strand replisome requires 24 proteins, forming the CMG helicase, the Pol ε DNA polymerase, the RFC clamp loader, the PCNA sliding clamp, and the RPA single-stranded DNA binding protein. We observe rates and product lengths similar to those obtained from ensemble biochemical experiments. At the single-molecule level, we probe the behavior of two components of the replication progression complex and characterize their interaction with active leading-strand replisomes. The Minichromosome maintenance protein 10 (Mcm10), an important player in CMG activation, increases the number of productive replication events in our assay. Furthermore, we show that the fork protection complex Mrc1-Tof1-Csm3 (MTC) enhances the rate of the leading-strand replisome threefold. The introduction of periods of fast replication by MTC leads to an average rate enhancement of a factor of 2, similar to observations in cellular studies. We observe that the MTC complex acts in a dynamic fashion with the moving replisome, leading to alternating phases of slow and fast replication.
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Langston LD, Mayle R, Schauer GD, Yurieva O, Zhang D, Yao NY, Georgescu RE, O'Donnell ME. Mcm10 promotes rapid isomerization of CMG-DNA for replisome bypass of lagging strand DNA blocks. eLife 2017; 6:e29118. [PMID: 28869037 PMCID: PMC5599239 DOI: 10.7554/elife.29118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2017] [Accepted: 09/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Replicative helicases in all cell types are hexameric rings that unwind DNA by steric exclusion in which the helicase encircles the tracking strand only and excludes the other strand from the ring. This mode of translocation allows helicases to bypass blocks on the strand that is excluded from the central channel. Unlike other replicative helicases, eukaryotic CMG helicase partially encircles duplex DNA at a forked junction and is stopped by a block on the non-tracking (lagging) strand. This report demonstrates that Mcm10, an essential replication protein unique to eukaryotes, binds CMG and greatly stimulates its helicase activity in vitro. Most significantly, Mcm10 enables CMG and the replisome to bypass blocks on the non-tracking DNA strand. We demonstrate that bypass occurs without displacement of the blocks and therefore Mcm10 must isomerize the CMG-DNA complex to achieve the bypass function.
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- Lance D Langston
- The Rockefeller UniversityNew YorkUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNew YorkUnited States
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- The Rockefeller UniversityNew YorkUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNew YorkUnited States
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- The Rockefeller UniversityNew YorkUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNew YorkUnited States
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- The Rockefeller UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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- The Rockefeller UniversityNew YorkUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNew YorkUnited States
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- The Rockefeller UniversityNew YorkUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNew YorkUnited States
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Nuclear DNA Replication in Trypanosomatids: There Are No Easy Methods for Solving Difficult Problems. Trends Parasitol 2017; 33:858-874. [PMID: 28844718 PMCID: PMC5662062 DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2017.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2017] [Revised: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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In trypanosomatids, etiological agents of devastating diseases, replication is robust and finely controlled to maintain genome stability and function in stressful environments. However, these parasites encode several replication protein components and complexes that show potentially variant composition compared with model eukaryotes. This review focuses on the advances made in recent years regarding the differences and peculiarities of the replication machinery in trypanosomatids, including how such divergence might affect DNA replication dynamics and the replication stress response. Comparing the DNA replication machinery and processes of parasites and their hosts may provide a foundation for the identification of targets that can be used in the development of chemotherapies to assist in the eradication of diseases caused by these pathogens. In trypanosomatids, DNA replication is tightly controlled by protein complexes that diverge from those of model eukaryotes. There is no consensus for the number of replication origins used by trypanosomatids; how their replication dynamics compares with that of model organisms is the subject of debate. The DNA replication rate in trypanosomatids is similar to, but slightly higher than, that of model eukaryotes, which may be related to chromatin structure and function. Recent data suggest that the origin recognition complex in trypanosomatids closely resembles the multisubunit eukaryotic model. The absence of fundamental replication-associated proteins in trypanosomatids suggests that new signaling pathways may be present in these parasites to direct DNA replication and the replicative stress response.
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Hedglin M, Benkovic SJ. Eukaryotic Translesion DNA Synthesis on the Leading and Lagging Strands: Unique Detours around the Same Obstacle. Chem Rev 2017; 117:7857-7877. [PMID: 28497687 PMCID: PMC5662946 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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During S-phase, minor DNA damage may be overcome by DNA damage tolerance (DDT) pathways that bypass such obstacles, postponing repair of the offending damage to complete the cell cycle and maintain cell survival. In translesion DNA synthesis (TLS), specialized DNA polymerases replicate the damaged DNA, allowing stringent DNA synthesis by a replicative polymerase to resume beyond the offending damage. Dysregulation of this DDT pathway in human cells leads to increased mutation rates that may contribute to the onset of cancer. Furthermore, TLS affords human cancer cells the ability to counteract chemotherapeutic agents that elicit cell death by damaging DNA in actively replicating cells. Currently, it is unclear how this critical pathway unfolds, in particular, where and when TLS occurs on each template strand. Given the semidiscontinuous nature of DNA replication, it is likely that TLS on the leading and lagging strand templates is unique for each strand. Since the discovery of DDT in the late 1960s, most studies on TLS in eukaryotes have focused on DNA lesions resulting from ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposure. In this review, we revisit these and other related studies to dissect the step-by-step intricacies of this complex process, provide our current understanding of TLS on leading and lagging strand templates, and propose testable hypotheses to gain further insights.
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- Mark Hedglin
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A
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The accurate and complete replication of genomic DNA is essential for all life. In eukaryotic cells, the assembly of the multi-enzyme replisomes that perform replication is divided into stages that occur at distinct phases of the cell cycle. Replicative DNA helicases are loaded around origins of DNA replication exclusively during G1 phase. The loaded helicases are then activated during S phase and associate with the replicative DNA polymerases and other accessory proteins. The function of the resulting replisomes is monitored by checkpoint proteins that protect arrested replisomes and inhibit new initiation when replication is inhibited. The replisome also coordinates nucleosome disassembly, assembly, and the establishment of sister chromatid cohesion. Finally, when two replisomes converge they are disassembled. Studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have led the way in our understanding of these processes. Here, we review our increasingly molecular understanding of these events and their regulation.
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Conflict Resolution in the Genome: How Transcription and Replication Make It Work. Cell 2017; 167:1455-1467. [PMID: 27912056 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.09.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2016] [Revised: 09/20/2016] [Accepted: 09/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The complex machineries involved in replication and transcription translocate along the same DNA template, often in opposing directions and at different rates. These processes routinely interfere with each other in prokaryotes, and mounting evidence now suggests that RNA polymerase complexes also encounter replication forks in higher eukaryotes. Indeed, cells rely on numerous mechanisms to avoid, tolerate, and resolve such transcription-replication conflicts, and the absence of these mechanisms can lead to catastrophic effects on genome stability and cell viability. In this article, we review the cellular responses to transcription-replication conflicts and highlight how these inevitable encounters shape the genome and impact diverse cellular processes.
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Spaller T, Groth M, Glöckner G, Winckler T. TRE5-A retrotransposition profiling reveals putative RNA polymerase III transcription complex binding sites on the Dictyostelium extrachromosomal rDNA element. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0175729. [PMID: 28406973 PMCID: PMC5391098 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2017] [Accepted: 03/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum has a haploid genome in which two thirds of the DNA encodes proteins. Consequently, the space available for selfish mobile elements to expand without excess damage to the host genome is limited. The non-long terminal repeat retrotransposon TRE5-A maintains an active population in the D. discoideum genome and apparently adapted to this gene-dense environment by targeting positions ~47 bp upstream of tRNA genes that are devoid of protein-coding regions. Because only ~24% of tRNA genes are associated with a TRE5-A element in the reference genome, we evaluated whether TRE5-A retrotransposition is limited to this subset of tRNA genes. We determined that a tagged TRE5-A element (TRE5-Absr) integrated at 384 of 405 tRNA genes, suggesting that expansion of the current natural TRE5-A population is not limited by the availability of targets. We further observed that TRE5-Absr targets the ribosomal 5S gene on the multicopy extrachromosomal DNA element that carries the ribosomal RNA genes, indicating that TRE5-A integration may extend to the entire RNA polymerase III (Pol III) transcriptome. We determined that both natural TRE5-A and cloned TRE5-Absr retrotranspose to locations on the extrachromosomal rDNA element that contain tRNA gene-typical A/B box promoter motifs without displaying any other tRNA gene context. Based on previous data suggesting that TRE5-A targets tRNA genes by locating Pol III transcription complexes, we propose that A/B box loci reflect Pol III transcription complex assembly sites that possess a function in the biology of the extrachromosomal rDNA element.
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MESH Headings
- Binding Sites
- DNA, Protozoan/chemistry
- DNA, Protozoan/genetics
- DNA, Protozoan/metabolism
- DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal/genetics
- DNA, Ribosomal/metabolism
- Dictyostelium/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Protozoan Proteins/metabolism
- RNA Polymerase III/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 5S/genetics
- RNA, Transfer/genetics
- Retroelements/genetics
- Transcription, Genetic
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- Thomas Spaller
- Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Core Facility DNA Sequencing, Leibniz Institute for Age Research–Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry I, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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Chang HW, Studitsky VM. Chromatin replication: TRANSmitting the histone code. JOURNAL OF NATURE AND SCIENCE 2017; 3:e322. [PMID: 28393112 PMCID: PMC5384335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Efficient overcoming of the nucleosomal barrier and accurate maintenance of associated histone marks during chromatin replication are essential for normal functioning of the cell. Recent studies revealed new protein factors and histone modifications contributing to overcoming the nucleosomal barrier, and suggested an important role for DNA looping in survival of the original histones during replication. These studies suggest new possible mechanisms for transmitting the histone code to next generations of cells.
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- Han-Wen Chang
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
- Biology Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Moscow, Russia
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Quality control mechanisms exclude incorrect polymerases from the eukaryotic replication fork. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:675-680. [PMID: 28069954 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1619748114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The eukaryotic genome is primarily replicated by two DNA polymerases, Pol ε and Pol δ, that function on the leading and lagging strands, respectively. Previous studies have established recruitment mechanisms whereby Cdc45-Mcm2-7-GINS (CMG) helicase binds Pol ε and tethers it to the leading strand, and PCNA (proliferating cell nuclear antigen) binds tightly to Pol δ and recruits it to the lagging strand. The current report identifies quality control mechanisms that exclude the improper polymerase from a particular strand. We find that the replication factor C (RFC) clamp loader specifically inhibits Pol ε on the lagging strand, and CMG protects Pol ε against RFC inhibition on the leading strand. Previous studies show that Pol δ is slow and distributive with CMG on the leading strand. However, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pol δ-PCNA is a rapid and processive enzyme, suggesting that CMG may bind and alter Pol δ activity or position it on the lagging strand. Measurements of polymerase binding to CMG demonstrate Pol ε binds CMG with a Kd value of 12 nM, but Pol δ binding CMG is undetectable. Pol δ, like bacterial replicases, undergoes collision release upon completing replication, and we propose Pol δ-PCNA collides with the slower CMG, and in the absence of a stabilizing Pol δ-CMG interaction, the collision release process is triggered, ejecting Pol δ on the leading strand. Hence, by eviction of incorrect polymerases at the fork, the clamp machinery directs quality control on the lagging strand and CMG enforces quality control on the leading strand.
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Yeeles JTP, Janska A, Early A, Diffley JFX. How the Eukaryotic Replisome Achieves Rapid and Efficient DNA Replication. Mol Cell 2017; 65:105-116. [PMID: 27989442 PMCID: PMC5222725 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 236] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2016] [Revised: 10/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/07/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The eukaryotic replisome is a molecular machine that coordinates the Cdc45-MCM-GINS (CMG) replicative DNA helicase with DNA polymerases α, δ, and ε and other proteins to copy the leading- and lagging-strand templates at rates between 1 and 2 kb min-1. We have now reconstituted this sophisticated machine with purified proteins, beginning with regulated CMG assembly and activation. We show that replisome-associated factors Mrc1 and Csm3/Tof1 are crucial for in vivo rates of replisome progression. Additionally, maximal rates only occur when DNA polymerase ε catalyzes leading-strand synthesis together with its processivity factor PCNA. DNA polymerase δ can support leading-strand synthesis, but at slower rates. DNA polymerase δ is required for lagging-strand synthesis, but surprisingly also plays a role in establishing leading-strand synthesis, before DNA polymerase ε engagement. We propose that switching between these DNA polymerases also contributes to leading-strand synthesis under conditions of replicative stress.
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- Joseph T P Yeeles
- The Francis Crick Institute, Clare Hall Laboratory, South Mimms, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, UK
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- The Francis Crick Institute, Clare Hall Laboratory, South Mimms, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, UK
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- The Francis Crick Institute, Clare Hall Laboratory, South Mimms, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, UK
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- The Francis Crick Institute, Clare Hall Laboratory, South Mimms, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, UK.
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