Dynamics of DNA Binding of Replication Initiation Proteins during de Novo Formation of Pre-replicative Complexes in Xenopus Egg Extracts*
Dynamics of DNA Binding of Replication Initiation Proteins during de Novo Formation of Pre-replicative Complexes in Xenopus Egg Extracts*
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DOI:
10.1074/jbc.m600299200
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发表时间:
2006-04
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
S. Waga;Akiko Zembutsu
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作者:
S. Waga;Akiko Zembutsu
We investigated the dynamics of DNA binding of replication initiation proteins during formation of the pre-replicative complex (pre-RC) on plasmids in Xenopus egg extracts. The pre-RC was efficiently formed on plasmids at 23 °C, with one or a few origin recognition complex (ORC) molecules and ∼10–20 mini-chromosome maintenance 2 (MCM2) molecules loaded onto each plasmid. Although geminin inhibited MCM loading, MCM interacted weakly but stoichiometrically with the plasmid in an ORC-dependent manner, even in the presence of geminin (with ∼10 MCM2 molecules per plasmid). Interestingly, DNA binding of ORC, CDC6, and CDT1 was significantly stabilized in the presence of geminin, under which conditions ∼10–20 molecules each of ORC and CDC6 were bound. Moreover, a similarly stable ORC-CDC6-CDT1 complex rapidly formed on DNA at lower temperature (0 °C) without geminin, with ∼10–20 molecules each of ORC and CDC6 bound to the plasmid, but almost no binding of MCM. However, upon shifting the temperature to 23 °C, most ORC, CDC6, and CDT1 molecules were displaced from the DNA, leaving about one ORC molecule on the plasmid, whereas ∼10 MCM2 molecules were loaded onto each plasmid. Furthermore, it was possible to load MCM onto DNA when the isolated ORC-CDC6-CDT1-DNA complex was mixed with purified MCM proteins. These results suggest that an ORC-CDC6-CDT1 complex pre-formed on DNA is directly involved in MCM loading and imply that each DNA-bound ORC molecule loads only one or a few MCM2–7 complexes during metazoan pre-RC formation.