title: UvsX recombinase and Dda helicase rescue stalled bacteriophage T4 DNA replication forks in vitro.
abstract: The rescue of stalled replication forks via a series of steps that include fork regression, template switching, and fork restoration often has been proposed as a major mechanism for accurately bypassing non-coding DNA lesions. Bacteriophage T4 encodes almost all of the proteins required for its own DNA replication, recombination, and repair. Both recombination and recombination repair in T4 rely on UvsX, a RecA-like recombinase. We show here that UvsX plus the T4-encoded helicase Dda suffice to rescue stalled T4 replication forks in vitro. This rescue is based on two sequential template-switching reactions that allow DNA replication to bypass a non-coding DNA lesion in a non-mutagenic manner.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2233, USA.
authors.forename: Farid A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Kadyrov
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Drake
mesh_terms: D017122:Bacteriophage T4 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D004265:DNA Helicases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004261:DNA Replication; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C092863:UvsX protein, Enterobacteria phage T4; D014764:Viral Proteins; D004265:DNA Helicases; C077401:dda DNA helicase protein, Bacteriophage T4