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Domahs U, Kehrein W, Knaus J, Wiesel R, Schlesewsky M. Event-related potentials reflecting the processing of phonological constraint violations. Lang Speech 2009; 52:415-435. [PMID: 20121040 DOI: 10.1177/0023830909336581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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How are violations of phonological constraints processed in word comprehension? The present article reports the results of an event-related potentials (ERP) study on a phonological constraint of German that disallows identical segments within a syllable or word (CC(i)VC(i)). We examined three types of monosyllabic late positive CCVC words: (a) existing words [see text], (b) wellformed novel words [see text] and component (c) illformed novel words [see text] as instances of Obligatory Contour Principle non-word (OCP) violations. Wellformed and illformed novel words evoked an N400 effect processing in comparison to existing words. In addition, illformed words produced an enhanced late posterior positivity effect compared to wellformed novel words. obligatory contour Our findings support the well-known observation that novel words evoke principle higher costs in lexical integration (reflected by N400 effects). Crucially, modulations of a late positive component (LPC) show that violations of phonological phonotactic constraints influence later stages of cognitive processing even constraints when stimuli have already been detected as non-existing. Thus, the comparison of electrophysiological effects evoked by the two types of non-existing words reveals the stages at which phonologically based structural wellformedness comes into play during word processing.
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- Ulrike Domahs
- Institute for Germanic Linguistics, University of Marburg, Germany.
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Nagornykh MO, Bogdanova ES, Protsenko AS, Zakharova MV, Solonin AS, Severinov KV. [Regulation of gene expression in type II restriction-modification system]. RUSS J GENET+ 2008; 44:606-615. [PMID: 18672793 DOI: 10.1134/s1022795408050037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Type II restriction-modification systems are comprised of a restriction endonuclease and methyltransferase. The enzymes are coded by individual genes and recognize the same DNA sequence. Endonuclease makes a double-stranded break in the recognition site, and methyltransferase covalently modifies the DNA bases within the recognition site, thereby down-regulating endonuclease activity. Coordinated action of these enzymes plays a role of primitive immune system and protects bacterial host cell from the invasion of foreign (for example, viral) DNA. However, uncontrolled expression of the restriction-modification system genes can result in the death of bacterial host cell because of the endonuclease cleavage of host DNA. In the present review, the data on the expression regulation of the type II restriction-modification enzymes are discussed.
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Townson SA, Samuelson JC, Bao Y, Xu SY, Aggarwal AK. BstYI Bound to Noncognate DNA Reveals a “Hemispecific” Complex: Implications for DNA Scanning. Structure 2007; 15:449-59. [PMID: 17437717 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2007.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2007] [Revised: 03/02/2007] [Accepted: 03/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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DNA recognition by proteins is essential for specific expression of genes in a living organism. En route to a target DNA site, a protein will often sample noncognate DNA sites through nonspecific protein-DNA interactions, resulting in a variety of conformationally different binding states. We present here the crystal structure of endonuclease BstYI bound to a noncognate DNA. Surprisingly, the structure reveals the enzyme in a "hemispecific" binding state on the pathway between nonspecific and specific recognition. A single base pair change in the DNA abolishes binding of only one monomer, with the second monomer bound specifically. We show that the enzyme binds essentially as a rigid body, and that one end of the DNA is accommodated loosely in the binding cleft while the other end is held tightly. Another intriguing feature of the structure is Ser172, which has a dual role in establishing nonspecific and specific contacts. Taken together, the structure provides a snapshot of an enzyme in a "paused" intermediate state that may be part of a more general mechanism of scanning DNA.
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- Sharon A Townson
- Department of Structural and Chemical Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029, USA
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Tamulaitis G, Sasnauskas G, Mucke M, Siksnys V. Simultaneous binding of three recognition sites is necessary for a concerted plasmid DNA cleavage by EcoRII restriction endonuclease. J Mol Biol 2006; 358:406-19. [PMID: 16529772 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2005] [Revised: 02/08/2006] [Accepted: 02/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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According to the current paradigm type IIE restriction endonucleases are homodimeric proteins that simultaneously bind to two recognition sites but cleave DNA at only one site per turnover: the other site acts as an allosteric locus, activating the enzyme to cleave DNA at the first. Structural and biochemical analysis of the archetypal type IIE restriction enzyme EcoRII suggests that it has three possible DNA binding interfaces enabling simultaneous binding of three recognition sites. To test if putative synapsis of three binding sites has any functional significance, we have studied EcoRII cleavage of plasmids containing a single, two and three recognition sites under both single turnover and steady state conditions. EcoRII displays distinct reaction patterns on different substrates: (i) it shows virtually no activity on a single site plasmid; (ii) it yields open-circular DNA form nicked at one strand as an obligatory intermediate acting on a two-site plasmid; (iii) it cleaves concertedly both DNA strands at a single site during a single turnover on a three site plasmid to yield linear DNA. Cognate oligonucleotide added in trans increases the reaction velocity and changes the reaction pattern for the EcoRII cleavage of one and two-site plasmids but has little effect on the three-site plasmid. Taken together the data indicate that EcoRII requires simultaneous binding of three rather than two recognition sites in cis to achieve concerted DNA cleavage at a single site. We show that the orthodox type IIP enzyme PspGI which is an isoschisomer of EcoRII, cleaves different plasmid substrates with equal rates. Data provided here indicate that type IIE restriction enzymes EcoRII and NaeI follow different mechanisms. We propose that other type IIE restriction enzymes may employ the mechanism suggested here for EcoRII.
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Bakhrat A, Baranes K, Krichevsky O, Rom I, Schlenstedt G, Pietrokovski S, Raveh D. Nuclear import of ho endonuclease utilizes two nuclear localization signals and four importins of the ribosomal import system. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:12218-26. [PMID: 16507575 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m600238200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Activity of Ho, the yeast mating switch endonuclease, is restricted to a narrow time window of the cell cycle. Ho is unstable and despite being a nuclear protein is exported to the cytoplasm for proteasomal degradation. We report here the molecular basis for the highly efficient nuclear import of Ho and the relation between its short half-life and passage through the nucleus. The Ho nuclear import machinery is functionally redundant, being based on two bipartite nuclear localization signals, recognized by four importins of the ribosomal import system. Ho degradation is regulated by the DNA damage response and Ho retained in the cytoplasm is stabilized, implying that Ho acquires its crucial degradation signals in the nucleus. Ho arose by domestication of a fungal VMA1 intein. A comparison of the primary sequences of Ho and fungal VMA1 inteins shows that the Ho nuclear localization signals are highly conserved in all Ho proteins, but are absent from VMA1 inteins. Thus adoption of a highly efficient import strategy occurred very early in the evolution of Ho. This may have been a crucial factor in establishment of homothallism in yeast, and a key event in the rise of the Saccharomyces sensu stricto.
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- Anya Bakhrat
- Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P. O. Box 653, 84105 Beersheba, Israel
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Fasullo M, Dong Z, Sun M, Zeng L. Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD53 (CHK2) but not CHK1 is required for double-strand break-initiated SCE and DNA damage-associated SCE after exposure to X rays and chemical agents. DNA Repair (Amst) 2005; 4:1240-51. [PMID: 16039914 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2005] [Revised: 06/07/2005] [Accepted: 06/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD53 (CHK2) and CHK1 control two parallel branches of the RAD9-mediated pathway for DNA damage-induced G(2) arrest. Previous studies indicate that RAD9 is required for X-ray-associated sister chromatid exchange (SCE), suppresses homology-directed translocations, and is involved in pathways for double-strand break repair (DSB) repair that are different than those controlled by PDS1. We measured DNA damage-associated SCE in strains containing two tandem fragments of his3, his3-Delta5' and his3-Delta3'::HOcs, and rates of spontaneous translocations in diploids containing GAL1::his3-Delta5' and trp1::his3-Delta3'::HOcs. DNA damage-associated SCE was measured after log phase cells were exposed to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS), 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide (4-NQO), UV, X rays and HO-induced DSBs. We observed that rad53 mutants were defective in MMS-, 4-NQO, X-ray-associated and HO-induced SCE but not in UV-associated SCE. Similar to rad9 pds1 double mutants, rad53 pds1 double mutants exhibited more X-ray sensitivity than the single mutants. rad53 sml1 diploid mutants exhibited a 10-fold higher rate of spontaneous translocations compared to the sml1 diploid mutants. chk1 mutants were not deficient in DNA damage-associated SCE after exposure to DNA damaging agents or after DSBs were generated at trp1::his3-Delta5'his3-Delta3'::HOcs. These data indicate that RAD53, not CHK1, is required for DSB-initiated SCE, and DNA damage-associated SCE after exposure to X-ray-mimetic and UV-mimetic chemicals.
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- Michael Fasullo
- Ordway Research Institute, 150 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, New York 12208, USA.
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Armalyte E, Bujnicki JM, Giedriene J, Gasiunas G, Kosiński J, Lubys A. Mva1269I: a monomeric type IIS restriction endonuclease from Micrococcus varians with two EcoRI- and FokI-like catalytic domains. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:41584-94. [PMID: 16223716 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m506775200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Type II restriction endonuclease Mva1269I recognizes an asymmetric DNA sequence 5'-GAATGCN / -3'/5'-NG / CATTC-3' and cuts top and bottom DNA strands at positions, indicated by the "/" symbol. Most restriction endonucleases require dimerization to cleave both strands of DNA. We found that Mva1269I is a monomer both in solution and upon binding of cognate DNA. Protein fold-recognition analysis revealed that Mva1269I comprises two "PD-(D/E)XK" domains. The N-terminal domain is related to the 5'-GAATTC-3'-specific restriction endonuclease EcoRI, whereas the C-terminal one resembles the nonspecific nuclease domain of restriction endonuclease FokI. Inactivation of the C-terminal catalytic site transformed Mva1269I into a very active bottom strand-nicking enzyme, whereas mutants in the N-terminal domain nicked the top strand, but only at elevated enzyme concentrations. We found that the cleavage of the bottom strand is a prerequisite for the cleavage of the top strand. We suggest that Mva1269I evolved the ability to recognize and to cleave its asymmetrical target by a fusion of an EcoRI-like domain, which incises the bottom strand within the target, and a FokI-like domain that completes the cleavage within the nonspecific region outside the target sequence. Our results have implications for the molecular evolution of restriction endonucleases, as well as for perspectives of engineering new restriction and nicking enzymes with asymmetric target sites.
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- Elena Armalyte
- Institute of Biotechnology, Graiciuno 8, Vilnius LT-02241, Lithuania
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PCR-based mutagenesis is a cornerstone of molecular biology and protein engineering studies. Herein we describe a rapid and highly efficient mutagenesis method using type IIs restriction enzymes. A template gene is amplified into two separate PCR fragments using two pairs of anchor and mutagenic primers. Mutated sequences are located near the recognition site of a type IIs restriction enzyme. After digestion of two fragments with a type IIs enzyme, exposed cohesive ends that are complementary to each other are then ligated together to generate a mutated gene. We applied this method to introduce multiple site-directed mutations in EGFP and Bcl-2 family genes and observed perfect mutagenesis efficiency at the desired sites. This efficient and cost-effective mutagenesis method can be applied to a wide variety of structural and functional studies in cell physiology.
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- Jae-Kyun Ko
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 675 Hoes Lane, 5th Floor, Research Tower, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635, USA
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Christensen LL, Josephsen J. The methyltransferase from the LlaDII restriction-modification system influences the level of expression of its own gene. J Bacteriol 2004; 186:287-95. [PMID: 14702296 PMCID: PMC305755 DOI: 10.1128/jb.186.2.287-295.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The type II restriction-modification (R-M) system LlaDII isolated from Lactococcus lactis contains two tandemly arranged genes, llaDIIR and llaDIIM, encoding a restriction endonuclease (REase) and a methyltransferase (MTase), respectively. Interestingly, two LlaDII recognition sites are present in the llaDIIM promoter region, suggesting that they may influence the activity of the promoter through methylation status. In this study, separate promoters for llaDIIR and llaDIIM were identified, and the regulation of the two genes at the transcriptional level was investigated. DNA fragments containing the putative promoters were cloned in a promoter probe vector and tested for activity in the presence and absence of the active MTase. The level of expression of the MTase was 5- to 10-fold higher than the level of expression of the REase. The results also showed that the presence of M.LlaDII reduced the in vivo expression of the llaDIIM promoter (P(llaDIIM)) up to 1,000-fold, whereas the activity of the llaDIIR promoter (P(llaDIIR)) was not affected. Based on site-specific mutations it was shown that both of the LlaDII recognition sites within P(llaDIIM) are required to obtain complete repression of transcriptional activity. No regulation was found for llaDIIR, which appears to be constitutively expressed.
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- Lisa Lystbaek Christensen
- Department of Dairy and Food Science, Centre of Advanced Food Studies, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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The widespread use of fish as model systems is still limited by the mosaic distribution of cells transiently expressing transgenes leading to a low frequency of transgenic fish. Here we present a strategy that overcomes this problem. Transgenes of interest were flanked by two I-SceI meganuclease recognition sites, and co-injected together with the I-SceI meganuclease enzyme into medaka embryos (Oryzias latipes) at the one-cell stage. First, the promoter dependent expression was strongly enhanced. Already in F0, 76% of the embryos exhibited uniform promoter dependent expression compared to 26% when injections were performed without meganuclease. Second, the transgenesis frequency was raised to 30.5%. Even more striking was the increase in the germline transmission rate. Whereas in standard protocols it does not exceed a few percent, the number of transgenic F1 offspring of an identified founder fish reached the optimum of 50% in most lines resulting from meganuclease co-injection. Southern blot analysis showed that the individual integration loci contain only one or few copies of the transgene in tandem. At a lower rate this method also leads to enhancer trapping effects, novel patterns that are likely due to the integration of the transgene in the vicinity of enhancer elements. Meganuclease co-injection thus provides a simple and highly efficient tool to improve transgenesis by microinjection.
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- Violette Thermes
- INRA Junior Group, UPR2197, Institut de Neurobiologie A. Fessard, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91 198 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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Protozanova E, Demidov VV, Soldatenkov V, Chasovskikh S, Frank-Kamenetskii MD. Tailoring the activity of restriction endonuclease PleI by PNA-induced DNA looping. EMBO Rep 2002; 3:956-61. [PMID: 12231505 PMCID: PMC1307623 DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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DNA looping is one of the key factors allowing proteins bound to different DNA sites to signal one another via direct contacts. We demonstrate that DNA looping can be generated in an arbitrary chosen site by sequence-directed targeting of double-stranded DNA with pseudocomplementary peptide-nucleic acids (pcPNAs). We designed pcPNAs to mask the DNA from cleavage by type IIs restriction enzyme PleI while not preventing the enzyme from binding to its primary DNA recognition site. Direct interaction between two protein molecules (one bound to the original recognition site and the other to a sequence-degenerated site) results in a totally new activity of PleI: it produces a nick near the degenerate site. The PNA-induced nicking efficiency varies with the distance between the two protein-binding sites in a phase with the DNA helical periodicity. Our findings imply a general approach for the fine-tuning of proteins bound to DNA sites well separated along the DNA chain.
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- Ekaterina Protozanova
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, 36 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, 36 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215
- V.V. Demidov and M.D. Frank-Kamenetskii should be regarded as senior authors
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3970 Reservoir Road N.W., Washington, DC 20007, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3970 Reservoir Road N.W., Washington, DC 20007, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, 36 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215
- V.V. Demidov and M.D. Frank-Kamenetskii should be regarded as senior authors
- Tel: +1 617 353 8498; Fax: +1 617 353 8501;
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Akyüz N, Boehden GS, Süsse S, Rimek A, Preuss U, Scheidtmann KH, Wiesmüller L. DNA substrate dependence of p53-mediated regulation of double-strand break repair. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:6306-17. [PMID: 12167722 PMCID: PMC134001 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.17.6306-6317.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) arise spontaneously after the conversion of DNA adducts or single-strand breaks by DNA repair or replication and can be introduced experimentally by expression of specific endonucleases. Correct repair of DSBs is central to the maintenance of genomic integrity in mammalian cells, since errors give rise to translocations, deletions, duplications, and expansions, which accelerate the multistep process of tumor progression. For p53 direct regulatory roles in homologous recombination (HR) and in non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) were postulated. To systematically analyze the involvement of p53 in DSB repair, we generated a fluorescence-based assay system with a series of episomal and chromosomally integrated substrates for I-SceI meganuclease-triggered repair. Our data indicate that human wild-type p53, produced either stably or transiently in a p53-negative background, inhibits HR between substrates for conservative HR (cHR) and for gene deletions. NHEJ via microhomologies flanking the I-SceI cleavage site was also downregulated after p53 expression. Interestingly, the p53-dependent downregulation of homology-directed repair was maximal during cHR between sequences with short homologies. Inhibition was minimal during recombination between substrates that support reporter gene reconstitution by HR and NHEJ. p53 with a hotspot mutation at codon 281, 273, 248, 175, or 143 was severely defective in regulating DSB repair (frequencies elevated up to 26-fold). For the transcriptional transactivation-inactive variant p53(138V) a defect became apparent with short homologies only. These results suggest that p53 plays a role in restraining DNA exchange between imperfectly homologous sequences and thereby in suppressing tumorigenic genome rearrangements.
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- Nuray Akyüz
- Universitätsfrauenklinik, D-89075 Ulm, Germany
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Manivasakam P, Aubrecht J, Sidhom S, Schiestl RH. Restriction enzymes increase efficiencies of illegitimate DNA integration but decrease homologous integration in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:4826-33. [PMID: 11726692 PMCID: PMC96699 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.23.4826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Mammalian cells repair DNA double-strand breaks by illegitimate end-joining or by homologous recombination. We investigated the effects of restriction enzymes on illegitimate and homologous DNA integration in mammalian cells. A plasmid containing the neo(R) expression cassette, which confers G418 resistance, was used to select for illegitimate integration events in CHO wild-type and xrcc5 mutant cells. Co-transfection with the restriction enzymes BamHI, BglII, EcoRI and KpnI increased the efficiency of linearized plasmid integration up to 5-fold in CHO cells. In contrast, the restriction enzymes did not increase the integration efficiency in xrcc5 mutant cells. Effects of restriction enzymes on illegitimate and homologous integration were also studied in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells using a plasmid containing the neo(R) gene flanked by exon 3 of HPRT: The enzymes BamHI, BglII and EcoRI increased the illegitimate integration efficiency of transforming DNA several-fold, similar to the results for CHO cells. However, all three enzymes decreased the absolute frequency of homologous integration approximately 2-fold, and the percentage of homologous integration decreased >10-fold. This suggests that random DNA breaks attract illegitimate recombination (IR) events that compete with homology search.
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- P Manivasakam
- Department of Cancer Cell Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Nishino T, Ishino Y. [Structural motifs in DNA cleaving enzymes]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 2001; 46:1717-25. [PMID: 11579571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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Type II restriction modification systems (RMSs) have been regarded either as defense tools or as molecular parasites of bacteria. We extensively analyzed their evolutionary role from the study of their impact in the complete genomes of 26 bacteria and 35 phages in terms of palindrome avoidance. This analysis reveals that palindrome avoidance is not universally spread among bacterial species and that it does not correlate with taxonomic proximity. Palindrome avoidance is also not universal among bacteriophage, even when their hosts code for RMSs, and depends strongly on the genetic material of the phage. Interestingly, palindrome avoidance is intimately correlated with the infective behavior of the phage. We observe that the degree of palindrome and restriction site avoidance is significantly and consistently less important in phages than in their bacterial hosts. This result brings to the fore a larger selective load for palindrome and restriction site avoidance on the bacterial hosts than on their infecting phages. It is then consistent with a view where type II RMSs are considered as parasites possibly at the verge of mutualism. As a consequence, RMSs constitute a nontrivial third player in the host-parasite relationship between bacteria and phages.
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- E P Rocha
- Atelier de BioInformatique, Université Paris VI, 75005 Paris, France.
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Phase variation through slippage-like mechanisms involving homopolymeric tracts depends in part on the absence of Dam-methylase in several pathogenic isolates of Neisseria meningitidis. In Dam-defective strains drg (dam-replacing gene), flanked by pseudo-transposable small repeated elements (SREs), replaced dam. We demonstrate that drg encodes a restriction endonuclease (NmeBII) that cleaves 5'-GmeATC-3'. drg is also present in 50% of Neisseria lactamica strains, but in most of them it is inactive because of the absence of an SRE-providing promoter. This is associated with the presence of GATmeC, suggesting an alternative restriction-modification system (RM) specific for 5'-GATC-3', similar to Sau3AI-RM of Staphylococcus aureus 3A, Lactococcus lactis KR2 and Listeria monocytogenes.
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- G Cantalupo
- Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Moleculare L Califano, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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Vijesurier RM, Carlock L, Blumenthal RM, Dunbar JC. Role and mechanism of action of C. PvuII, a regulatory protein conserved among restriction-modification systems. J Bacteriol 2000; 182:477-87. [PMID: 10629196 PMCID: PMC94299 DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.2.477-487.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/1999] [Accepted: 10/27/1999] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The PvuII restriction-modification system is a type II system, which means that its restriction endonuclease and modification methyltransferase are independently active proteins. The PvuII system is carried on a plasmid, and its movement into a new host cell is expected to be followed initially by expression of the methyltransferase gene alone so that the new host's DNA is protected before endonuclease activity appears. Previous studies have identified a regulatory gene (pvuIIC) between the divergently oriented genes for the restriction endonuclease (pvuIIR) and modification methyltransferase (pvuIIM), with pvuIIC in the same orientation as and partially overlapping pvuIIR. The product of pvuIIC, C. PvuII, was found to act in trans and to be required for expression of pvuIIR. In this study we demonstrate that premature expression of pvuIIC prevents establishment of the PvuII genes, consistent with the model that requiring C. PvuII for pvuIIR expression provides a timing delay essential for protection of the new host's DNA. We find that the opposing pvuIIC and pvuIIM transcripts overlap by over 60 nucleotides at their 5' ends, raising the possibility that their hybridization might play a regulatory role. We furthermore characterize the action of C. PvuII, demonstrating that it is a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein that binds to the pvuIIC promoter and stimulates transcription of both pvuIIC and pvuIIR into a polycistronic mRNA. The apparent location of C. PvuII binding, overlapping the -10 promoter hexamer and the pvuIICR transcriptional starting points, is highly unusual for transcriptional activators.
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- R M Vijesurier
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
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Type II restriction endonucleases are a paradigm for site-specific cleavage of DNA. Recent structural analyses, in particular in the presence of various divalent metals, have shed new insight into the mechanisms of catalysis. In addition, during this past year the crystal structure determinations of MutH, lambda-exonuclease and FokI have revealed that these proteins are also members of the same family.
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- R A Kovall
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physics, 1229 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1229, USA
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Pâques F, Haber JE. Multiple pathways of recombination induced by double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1999. [PMID: 10357855 DOI: 10.0000/pmid10357855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023] Open
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The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been the principal organism used in experiments to examine genetic recombination in eukaryotes. Studies over the past decade have shown that meiotic recombination and probably most mitotic recombination arise from the repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs). There are multiple pathways by which such DSBs can be repaired, including several homologous recombination pathways and still other nonhomologous mechanisms. Our understanding has also been greatly enriched by the characterization of many proteins involved in recombination and by insights that link aspects of DNA repair to chromosome replication. New molecular models of DSB-induced gene conversion are presented. This review encompasses these different aspects of DSB-induced recombination in Saccharomyces and attempts to relate genetic, molecular biological, and biochemical studies of the processes of DNA repair and recombination.
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- F Pâques
- Rosenstiel Center and Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110, USA
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The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been the principal organism used in experiments to examine genetic recombination in eukaryotes. Studies over the past decade have shown that meiotic recombination and probably most mitotic recombination arise from the repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs). There are multiple pathways by which such DSBs can be repaired, including several homologous recombination pathways and still other nonhomologous mechanisms. Our understanding has also been greatly enriched by the characterization of many proteins involved in recombination and by insights that link aspects of DNA repair to chromosome replication. New molecular models of DSB-induced gene conversion are presented. This review encompasses these different aspects of DSB-induced recombination in Saccharomyces and attempts to relate genetic, molecular biological, and biochemical studies of the processes of DNA repair and recombination.
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- F Pâques
- Rosenstiel Center and Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110, USA
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Analysis of the conserved sequence features of inteins (protein "introns") reveals that they are composed of three distinct modular domains. The N-terminal (N) and C-terminal (C) domains are predicted to perform different parts of the autocatalytic protein splicing reaction. An optional endonuclease domain (EN) is shown to correspond to different types of homing endonucleases in different inteins. The N domain contains motifs predicted to catalyze the first steps of protein splicing, leading to the cleavage of the intein N terminus from its protein host. Intein N domain motifs are also found in C-terminal autocatalytic domains (CADs) present in hedgehog and other protein families. Specific residues in the N domain of intein and CADs are proposed to form a charge relay system involved in cleaving their N-termini. The intein C domain is apparently unique to inteins and contains motifs that catalyze the final protein splicing steps: ligation of the intein flanks and cleavage of its C terminus to release the free intein and spliced host protein. All intein EN domains known thus far have dodecapeptide (DOD, LAGLI-DADG) type homing endonuclease motifs. This work identifies an EN domain with an HNH homing-endonuclease motif and two new small inteins with no EN domains. One of these small inteins might be inactive or a "pseudo intein." The results suggest a modular architecture for inteins, clarify their origin and relationship to other protein families, and extend recent experimental findings on the functional roles of intein N, C, and EN motifs.
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- S Pietrokovski
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA.
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Unkelbach K, Kalb R, Breitfeld C, Santoso S, Kiefel V, Mueller-Eckhardt C. New polymorphism on platelet glycoprotein IIIa gene recognized by endonuclease Msp I: implications for PlA typing by allele-specific restriction analysis. Transfusion 1994; 34:592-5. [PMID: 7519794 DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1994.34794330013.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND Five human platelet alloantigen systems have been shown to result from single base pair substitutions in encoding regions of platelet glycoprotein genes IIIa, Ib, IIb, and Ia. For each of the diallelic systems, at least one restriction enzyme is known to cut only one of the two haplotypes. In the PlA system, restriction endonucleases Nci I and Msp I both recognize the PlA2 allele. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS A causal observation of an unexpected Msp I restriction pattern of a PlA2/PlA2 individual was made. Samples from 261 blood donors were then typed for antigens of the PlA system by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis using the Nci I and Msp I restriction enzymes. RESULTS Applying both enzymes, concordant restriction patterns were found in 258 of 261 blood donors. Three donors had a base pair mutation on the PlA2 allele, which creates an additional restriction site for Msp I 20 base pairs downstream from the PlA polymorphic site. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed a CT217-->CG217G base exchange resulting in a Leu40-->Arg40 polymorphism of glycoprotein IIIa. CONCLUSION Presuming that the mutation is not a singular phenomenon and also occurs with the PlA1 haplotype, it could lead to false interpretations of restriction analysis with Msp I. To exclude that possibility, Nci I is preferred for restriction fragment length polymorphism typing in the PlA system.
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- K Unkelbach
- Institute for Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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Selent U, Rüter T, Köhler E, Liedtke M, Thielking V, Alves J, Oelgeschläger T, Wolfes H, Peters F, Pingoud A. A site-directed mutagenesis study to identify amino acid residues involved in the catalytic function of the restriction endonuclease EcoRV. Biochemistry 1992; 31:4808-15. [PMID: 1591242 DOI: 10.1021/bi00135a010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We have used site-directed mutagenesis of the EcoRV restriction endonuclease to change amino acid side chains that have been shown crystallographically to be in close proximity to the scissile phosphodiester bond of the DNA substrate. DNA cleavage assays of the resulting mutant proteins indicate that the largest effects on nucleolytic activity result from substitution of Asp74, Asp90, and Lys92. We suggest on the basis of structural information, mutagenesis data, and analogies with other nucleases that Asp74 and Asp90 might be involved in Mg2+ binding and/or catalysis and that Lys92 probably stabilizes the pentacovalent phosphorus in the transition state. These amino acids are part of a sequence motif, Pro-Asp...Asp/Glu-X-Lys, which is also present in EcoRI. In both enzymes, it is located in a structurally similar context near the scissile phosphodiester bond. A preliminary mutational analysis with EcoRI indicates that this sequence motif is of similar functional importance for EcoRI and EcoRV. On the basis of these results, a proposal is made for the mechanism of DNA cleavage by EcoRV and EcoRI.
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- U Selent
- Zentrum Biochemie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany
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Morishima N, Shibata T. [Sequence-specific endonucleases involved in genetic recombination]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 1991; 36:1716-20. [PMID: 1947180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- N Morishima
- Laboratory of Microbiology, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan
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Aparicio JF, Barbés C, Hardisson C, Sánchez J. Sensitivity to phages of Streptomyces coelicolor strains harbouring type II restriction endonucleases. Microbiologia 1990; 6:71-5. [PMID: 2095170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The role of type II restriction endonucleases in phage development in two different strains of Streptomyces coelicolor has been analyzed. Two of ten phages tested (phi A4 R4c 1) presented a low efficiency of plating (e.o.p.) in the studied strains. The isolation of host-range mutants of phi A4 and R4c 1, with improved e.o.p. and higher adsorption capability in these two bacterial strains, suggests that the presence of host endonucleases is not the main barrier for these phages, but rather adsorption inability.
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- J F Aparicio
- Department of Functional Biology, University of Oviedo, Spain
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Vesely Z, Müller A, Schmitz GG, Kaluza K, Jarsch M, Kessler C. RleAI: a novel class-IIS restriction endonuclease from Rhizobium leguminosarum recognizing 5'-CCCACA(N)12-3' 3'-GGGTGT(N)9-5'. Gene X 1990; 95:129-31. [PMID: 2253885 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(90)90423-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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- Z Vesely
- Boehringer Mannheim GmbH, Biochemical Research Center, Penzberg, F.R.G
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