Thermotoga maritima oriC involves a DNA unwinding element with distinct modules and a DnaA-oligomerizing region with a novel directional binding mode

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  • Lu, Chuyuan
    九州大学大学院薬学研究院分子生命科学系部門
  • 吉田, 竜星
    九州大学大学院薬学研究院分子生命科学系部門
  • 片山, 勉
    九州大学大学院薬学研究院分子生命科学系部門
  • 尾﨑, 省吾
    九州大学大学院薬学研究院分子生命科学系部門

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Initiation of chromosomal replication requires dynamic nucleoprotein complexes. In most eubacteria, the origin oriC contains multiple DnaA box sequences to which the ubiquitous DnaA initiators bind. In Escherichia coli oriC, DnaA boxes sustain construction of higher-order complexes via DnaA–DnaA interactions, promoting the unwinding of the DNA unwinding element (DUE) within oriC and concomitantly binding the single-stranded (ss) DUE to install replication machinery. Despite the significant sequence homologies among DnaA proteins, oriC sequences are highly diverse. The present study investigated the design of oriC (tma-oriC) from Thermotoga maritima, an evolutionarily ancient eubacterium. The minimal tma-oriC sequence includes a DUE and a flanking region containing five DnaA boxes recognized by the cognate DnaA (tmaDnaA). This DUE was comprised of two distinct functional modules, an unwinding module and a tmaDnaA-binding module. Three direct repeats of the trinucleotide TAG within DUE were essential for both unwinding and ssDUE binding by tmaDnaA complexes constructed on the DnaA boxes. Its surrounding AT-rich sequences stimulated only duplex unwinding. Moreover, head-to-tail oligomers of ATP-bound tmaDnaA were constructed within tma-oriC, irrespective of the directions of the DnaA boxes. This binding mode was considered to be induced by flexible swiveling of DnaA domains III and IV, which were responsible for DnaA–DnaA interactions and DnaA box binding, respectively. Phasing of specific tmaDnaA boxes in tma-oriC was also responsible for unwinding. These findings indicate that a ssDUE recruitment mechanism was responsible for unwinding and would enhance understanding of the fundamental molecular nature of the origin sequences present in evolutionarily divergent bacteria.

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