Dynamics of DNA binding of replication initiation proteins during de novo formation of pre-replicative complexes in Xenopus egg extracts.
We investigated the dynamics of DNA binding of replication initiation proteins during formation of the pre-replicative complex (pre-RC) on plasmids in Xenopus egg extracts. The pre-RC was efficiently formed on plasmids at 23 degrees C, with one or a few origin recognition complex (ORC) molecules and approximately 10-20 mini-chromosome maintenance 2 (MCM2) molecules loaded onto each plasmid. Although geminin inhibited MCM loading, MCM interacted weakly but stoichiometrically with the plasmid in an ORC-dependent manner, even in the presence of geminin (with approximately 10 MCM2 molecules per plasmid). Interestingly, DNA binding of ORC, CDC6, and CDT1 was significantly stabilized in the presence of geminin, under which conditions approximately 10-20 molecules each of ORC and CDC6 were bound. Moreover, a similarly stable ORC-CDC6-CDT1 complex rapidly formed on DNA at lower temperature (0 degrees C) without geminin, with approximately 10-20 molecules each of ORC and CDC6 bound to the plasmid, but almost no binding of MCM. However, upon shifting the temperature to 23 degrees C, most ORC, CDC6, and CDT1 molecules were displaced from the DNA, leaving about one ORC molecule on the plasmid, whereas approximately 10 MCM2 molecules were loaded onto each plasmid. Furthermore, it was possible to load MCM onto DNA when the isolated ORC-CDC6-CDT1-DNA complex was mixed with purified MCM proteins. These results suggest that an ORC-CDC6-CDT1 complex pre-formed on DNA is directly involved in MCM loading and imply that each DNA-bound ORC molecule loads only one or a few MCM2-7 complexes during metazoan pre-RC formation.
Laboratories for Biomolecular Network, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. swaga@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp
Shou
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Waga
Akiko
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Zembutsu
D000818:Animals; D019921:Biotinylation; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D004261:DNA Replication; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D064248:Geminin; D018189:Immunomagnetic Separation; D064111:Minichromosome Maintenance Complex Component 2; D008954:Models, Biological; D017830:Octoxynol / Q000494:pharmacology; D009865:Oocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D051738:Origin Recognition Complex; D010957:Plasmids / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors; D014981:Xenopus; D029867:Xenopus Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; C071702:DnaC protein, E coli; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; C577998:GMNN protein, Xenopus; D064248:Geminin; D051738:Origin Recognition Complex; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D029867:Xenopus Proteins; D017830:Octoxynol; D004247:DNA; C102186:Mcm2 protein, Xenopus; D064111:Minichromosome Maintenance Complex Component 2