title: Helicase-defective RuvB(D113E) promotes RuvAB-mediated branch migration in vitro.
abstract: In Escherichia coli, the RuvA and RuvB proteins interact at Holliday junctions to promote branch migration leading to the formation of heteroduplex DNA. RuvA provides junction-binding specificity and RuvB drives ATP-dependent branch migration. Since RuvB contains sequence motifs characteristic of a DNA helicase and RuvAB exhibit helicase activity in vitro, we have analysed the role of DNA unwinding in relation to branch migration. A mutant RuvB protein, RuvB(D113E), mutated in helicase motif II (the DExx box), has been purified to homogeneity. The mutant protein forms hexameric rings on DNA similar to those formed by wild-type protein and promotes branch migration in the presence of RuvA. However, RuvB(D113E) exhibits reduced ATPase activity and is severely compromised in its DNA helicase activity. Models for RuvAB-mediated branch migration that invoke only limited DNA unwinding activity are proposed.
authors.affiliation: Clare Hall Laboratories, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, South Mimms, Herts, EN6 3LD, UK.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mézard
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stasiak
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: West
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004265:DNA Helicases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004278:DNA, Superhelical / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D007700:Kinetics; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009692:Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010641:Phenotype; D011995:Recombination, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D004278:DNA, Superhelical; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D009692:Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes; C061260:RuvB protein, Bacteria; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D004247:DNA; C071059:Holliday junction DNA helicase, E coli; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D004265:DNA Helicases