title: PriA-directed assembly of a primosome on D loop DNA.
abstract: Escherichia coli strains carrying null mutations in priA are chronically induced for the SOS response and are defective in homologous recombination, repair of UV damaged DNA, double-strand break repair, and both induced and constitutive stable DNA replication. This led to the proposal that PriA directed replication fork assembly at D loops formed by the homologous recombination machinery. The demonstration that PriA specifically recognized and bound D loop DNA supported this hypothesis. Using DNA footprinting as an assay, we show here that PriA also directs the assembly of a varphiX174-type primosome on D loop DNA. The ability to load a complete primosome on D loop DNA is a step necessary for replication fork assembly.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Molecular Biology, Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York 10021, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Marians
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D018983:DNA Footprinting; D004265:DNA Helicases / Q000378:metabolism; D004261:DNA Replication; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D003850:Deoxyribonuclease I; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D015719:Single-Strand Specific DNA and RNA Endonucleases
chemical_list: D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D004247:DNA; D003850:Deoxyribonuclease I; D015719:Single-Strand Specific DNA and RNA Endonucleases; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; C506743:priA protein, E coli; D004265:DNA Helicases