title: The possible involvement of replication-related proteins with a DEAD-box-like motif in cell-free DNA replication of Xenopus eggs.
abstract: Two types of antibodies were prepared: one directed against an oligopeptide specific to P1 protein, a mammalian homologue of yeast MCM3, and the other against an oligopeptide with a DEAD box motif, which is a highly conserved sequence in the P1 protein family. Immunoprecipitation of the eluate from anti-P1 family IgG-bound beads, which had been incubated in Xenopus egg extracts, with anti-P1 IgG-bound beads revealed that three proteins were coprecipitated. Two proteins remained in the supernatant after the immunoprecipitation of the eluate from anti-P1 family IgG-bound beads with anti-P1 IgG-bound beads. The immunodepleted extracts with anti-P1 family IgG-bound beads showed much lower DNA replication activity than did mock-treated extracts. Recovery of replication was achieved by supplementing the depleted extracts with both the eluate from anti-P1 IgG-bound beads and the supernatant obtained after the immunoprecipitation of the eluate with anti-P1 IgG-bound beads but not by supplementing the extracts with only the proteins eluted from anti-P1 IgG-bound beads. These findings suggest that some proteins containing a DEAD-box-like motif as well as mammalian homologues of yeast MCM2, MCM3 and CDC46 play an important role in cell-free DNA replication of Xenopus eggs.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Biology Research Laboratories, Banyu Tsukuba Research Institute in Collaboration with Merck Research Laboratories, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Someya
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shioda
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002474:Cell-Free System; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D004261:DNA Replication / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D009865:Oocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014981:Xenopus
chemical_list: D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D009842:Oligopeptides; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C069199:MCM2 protein, S cerevisiae