An Archaeal Histone Is Required for Transformation of Thermococcus kodakarensis
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- Lubomira Čuboňová
- Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Masahiro Katano
- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Tamotsu Kanai
- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Haruyuki Atomi
- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- John N. Reeve
- Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Thomas J. Santangelo
- Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p> Archaeal histones wrap DNA into complexes, designated archaeal nucleosomes, that resemble the tetrasome core of a eukaryotic nucleosome. Therefore, all DNA interactions <jats:italic>in vivo</jats:italic> in <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">Thermococcus kodakarensis</jats:named-content> , the most genetically versatile model species for archaeal research, must occur in the context of a histone-bound genome. Here we report the construction and properties of <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">T. kodakarensis</jats:named-content> strains that have TK1413 or TK2289 deleted, the genes that encode HTkA and HTkB, respectively, the two archaeal histones present in this archaeon. All attempts to generate a strain with both TK1413 and TK2289 deleted were unsuccessful, arguing that a histone-mediated event(s) in <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">T. kodakarensis</jats:named-content> is essential. The HTkA and HTkB amino acid sequences are 84% identical (56 of 67 residues) and 94% similar (63 of 67 residues), but despite this homology and their apparent redundancy in terms of supporting viability, the absence of HTkA and HTkB resulted in differences in growth and in quantitative and qualitative differences in genome transcription. A most surprising result was that the deletion of TK1413 (Δ <jats:italic>htkA</jats:italic> ) resulted in a <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">T. kodakarensis</jats:named-content> strain that was no longer amenable to transformation, whereas the deletion of TK2289 (Δ <jats:italic>htkB</jats:italic> ) had no detrimental effects on transformation. Potential roles for the archaeal histones in regulating gene expression and for HTkA in DNA uptake and recombination are discussed. </jats:p>
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- Journal of Bacteriology
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Journal of Bacteriology 194 (24), 6864-6874, 2012-12-15
American Society for Microbiology
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- CRID
- 1360002218461780608
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- ISSN
- 10985530
- 00219193
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