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Functional overlap between RecA and MgsA (RarA) in the rescue of stalled replication forks in Escherichia coli

GENES TO CELLS, Issue 3 2005
Tatsuya Shibata
Escherichia coli RecA protein plays a role in DNA homologous recombination, recombination repair, and the rescue of stalled or collapsed replication forks. The mgsA (rarA) gene encodes a highly conserved DNA-dependent ATPase, whose yeast orthologue, MGS1, plays a role in maintaining genomic stability. In this study, we show a functional relationship between mgsA and recA during DNA replication. The mgsA recA double mutant grows more slowly and has lower viability than a recA single mutant, but they are equally sensitive to UV-induced DNA damage. Mutations in mgsA and recA cause lethality in DNA polymerase I deficient cells, and suppress the temperature-dependent growth defect of dnaE486 (Pol III ,-catalytic subunit). Moreover, recAS25P, a novel recA allele identified in this work, does not complement the slow growth of ,mgsA ,recA cells or the lethality of polA12 ,recA, but is proficient in DNA repair, homologous recombination, SOS mutagenesis and SOS induction. These results suggest that RecA and MgsA are functionally redundant in rescuing stalled replication forks, and that the DNA repair and homologous recombination functions of RecA are separated from its function to maintain progression of replication fork. [source]

Effect of deletion of SOS-induced polymerases, pol II, IV, and V, on spontaneous mutagenesis in Escherichia coli mutD5

ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS, Issue 4 2004
Anetta Nowosielska
Abstract The E. coli dnaQ gene encodes the , subunit of DNA polymerase III (pol III) responsible for the proofreading activity of this polymerase. The mutD5 mutant of dnaQ chronically expresses the SOS response and exhibits a mutator phenotype. In this study we have constructed a set of E. coli AB1157 mutD5 derivatives deleted in genes encoding SOS-induced DNA polymerases, pol II, pol IV, and pol V, and estimated the frequency and specificity of spontaneous argE3,Arg+ reversion in exponentially growing and stationary-phase cells of these strains. We found that pol II exerts a profound effect on the specificity of spontaneous mutation in exponentially growing cells. Analysis of growth-dependent Arg+ revertants in mutD5 polB+ strains revealed that Arg+ revertants were due to tRNA suppressor formation, whereas those in mutD5 ,polB strains arose by back mutation at the argE3 ochre site. In stationary-phase bacteria, Arg+revertants arose mainly by back mutation, regardless of whether they were proficient or deficient in pol II. Our results also indicate that in a mutD5 background, the absence of pol II led to increased frequency of Arg+ growth-dependent revertants, whereas the lack of pol V caused its dramatic decrease, especially in mutD5 ,umuDC and mutD5 ,umuDC ,polB strains. In contrast, the rate of stationary-phase Arg+revertants increased in the absence of pol IV in the mutD5 ,dinB strain. We postulate that the proofreading activity of pol II excises DNA lesions in exponentially growing cells, whereas pol V and pol IV are more active in stationary-phase cultures. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 43:226,234, 2004. © 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]

Sequence-specific inhibition of RNA polymerase III-dependent transcription using Zorro locked nucleic acid (LNA)

THE JOURNAL OF GENE MEDICINE, Issue 1 2008
Rongbin Ge
Abstract Background RNA polymerase III (pol III)-dependent transcripts are involved in many fundamental activities in a cell, such as splicing and protein synthesis. They also regulate cell growth and influence tumor formation. During recent years vector-based systems for expression of short hairpin (sh) RNA under the control of a pol III promoter have been developed as gene-based medicines. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in means to regulate pol III-dependent transcription. Recently, we have developed a novel anti-gene molecule ,Zorro LNA (Locked Nucleic Acid)', which simultaneously hybridizes to both strands of super-coiled DNA and potently inhibits RNA polymerase II-derived transcription. We have now applied Zorro LNA in an attempt to also control U6 promoter-driven expression of shRNA. Methods In this study, we constructed pshluc and pshluc2BS plasmids, in which U6 promoter-driven small hairpin RNA specific for luciferase gene (shluc) was without or with Zorro LNA binding sites, respectively. After hybridization of Zorro LNA to pshluc2BS, the LNA-bound plasmid was cotransfected with pEGFPluc into mammalian cells and into a mouse model. In cellular experiments, cotransfection of unhybridized pshluc2BS, Zorro LNA and pEGFPluc was also performed. Results The results showed that the Zorro LNA construct efficiently inhibited pol III-dependent transcription as an anti-gene reagent in a cellular context, including in vivo in a mouse model. Conclusions Thus, this new form of gene silencer ,Zorro LNA' could potentially serve as a versatile regulator of pol III-dependent transcription, including various forms of shRNAs. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Comparison of bovine RNA polymerase III promoters for short hairpin RNA expression

ANIMAL GENETICS, Issue 4 2006
L. S. Lambeth
Summary RNA interference (RNAi) mediated by DNA-based expression of short hairpin RNA (shRNA) is a powerful method of sequence-specific gene knockdown. A number of vectors for expression of shRNA have been developed that feature promoters from RNA polymerase III (pol III)-transcribed genes of mouse or human origin. To advance the use of RNAi as a tool for functional genomic research and for future development of specific therapeutics in the bovine species, we have developed shRNA expression vectors that feature novel bovine RNA pol III promoters. We characterized two bovine U6 small nuclear RNA (snRNA) promoters (bU6-2 and bU6-3) and a bovine 7SK snRNA promoter (b7SK). We compared the efficiency of each of these promoters to express shRNA molecules. Promoter activity was measured in the context of RNAi by targeting and suppressing the reporter gene encoding enhanced green fluorescent protein. Results show that the b7SK promoter induced the greatest level of suppression in a range of cell lines. The comparison of these bovine promoters in shRNA expression is an important component for the future development of bovine-specific RNAi-based research. [source]