Structural insight into replicative helicase loading in Escherichia coli
Structural insight into replicative helicase loading in Escherichia coli
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大肠杆菌复制解旋酶负载的结构洞察
DOI:
10.1093/jb/mvac023
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发表时间:
2022
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通讯作者:
Kurumizaka Hitoshi
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作者:
Horikoshi Naoki;Kurumizaka Hitoshi
DNA replication is an essential, precisely regulated process that occurs once in a cell cycle. In the Gram-negative bacteriumEscherichia coli, the replicative helicaseEcDnaB and the helicase loaderEcDnaC play key roles in the initiation step at the replication origin,oriC.EcDnaB andEcDnaC form a heterododecamer, in which hexamericEcDnaB is bound to hexamericEcDnaC. Using genetic, biochemical and structural biology approaches, many groups have probed the mechanism of replicative helicase loading, using helicases and helicase loaders from various species. Recent X-ray crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structural studies of theEcDnaB–EcDnaC complex revealed that the interaction of DnaC with DnaB triggers distortion accumulation on the closed ring of hexameric DnaB, inducing DnaB subunits to adopt the open helical form for replication progression. The high-resolution crystal structure of the DnaB–DnaC complex solved by Nagataet al.contributed to a better understanding of the conformational rearrangement of the DnaB ring. In addition to the structural alterations in DnaB subunits by DnaC, the binding of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) substrates alters the ATP- and ADP-bound forms of DnaB and DnaC. These studies have proposed mechanisms by which DnaC regulates helicase loading onto ssDNA.