Simple and efficient purification of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase V: cofactor requirements for optimal activity and processivity in vitro |
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Authors: | Karata Kiyonobu Vaisman Alexandra Goodman Myron F Woodgate Roger |
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Institution: | Laboratory of Genomic Integrity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-3371, USA. |
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Abstract: | Most damage induced mutagenesis in Escherichia coli is dependent upon the UmuD'(2)C protein complex, which comprises DNA polymerase V (pol V). Biochemical characterization of pol V has been hindered by the fact that the enzyme is notoriously difficult to purify, largely because overproduced UmuC is insoluble. Here, we report a simple and efficient protocol for the rapid purification of milligram quantities of pol V from just 4 L of bacterial culture. Rather than over producing the UmuC protein, it was expressed at low basal levels, while UmuD'(2)C was expressed in trans from a high copy-number plasmid with an inducible promoter. We have also developed strategies to purify the β-clamp and γ-clamp loader free from contaminating polymerases. Using these highly purified proteins, we determined the cofactor requirements for optimal activity of pol V in vitro and found that pol V shows robust activity on an SSB-coated circular DNA template in the presence of the β/γ-complex and a RecA nucleoprotein filament (RecA*) formed in trans. This strong activity was attributed to the unexpectedly high processivity of pol V Mut (UmuD'(2)C · RecA · ATP), which was efficiently recruited to a primer terminus by SSB. |
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