Regulation of the functional interactions between archaeal eukaryote-like Cdc6/Orc1 proteins on the replication origin by two different mechanisms |
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Authors: | He Zheng-Guo Feng Ying Jiang Pei-Xia Wang Jun |
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Institution: | Center for Proteomics Research, National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China |
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Abstract: | The crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus contains three active origins of replication and three eukaryote-like Cdc6/Orc1 proteins known as SsoCdc6 proteins. It has the potential to become a powerful model system in understanding the central mechanism of the eukaryotic DNA replication. In this research, we designed a group of duplex DNA substrates containing specific origin recognition boxes (ORBs) of the archaeon and identified the DNA-binding activities of different SsoCdc6 proteins. Furthermore, we showed that the DNA-protein interaction between the DNA substrate and the SsoCdc6-1 or SsoCdc6-3 strikingly regulated their DNA-binding activities of each other on the origin. On the other hand, the protein-protein interactions between SsoCdc6-1 and SsoCdc6-2 were observed to mutually modulate the stimulating or inhibitive effects on the DNA-binding activities of each other. Thus, two different mechanisms were demonstrated to be involved in the regulations of the functions of the SsoCdc6 proteins on the replication origins. The results of this study imply that the interactions between multiple SsoCdc6 proteins and origin DNA collectively contribute to the positive or negative regulation of DNA replication initiation in the archaeon species. |
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Keywords: | DNA replication Archaea Cdc6/Orc1 Origin recognition Sulfolobus solfataricus |
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