Affiliation:
1. Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200 N, Denmark
2. Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510
Abstract
ABSTRACT
We show here that the DNA helicase activity of the parvoviral initiator protein NS1 is highly directional, binding to the single strand at a recessed 5′ end and displacing the other strand while progressing in a 3′-to-5′ direction on the bound strand. NS1 and a cellular site-specific DNA binding factor, PIF, also known as glucocorticoid modulating element binding protein, bind to the left-end minimal replication origin of minute virus of mice, forming a ternary complex. In this complex, NS1 is activated to nick one DNA strand, becoming covalently attached to the 5′ end of the nick in the process and providing a 3′ OH for priming DNA synthesis. In this situation, the helicase activity of NS1 did not displace the nicked strand, but the origin duplex was distorted by the NS1-PIF complex, as assayed by its sensitivity to KMnO
4
oxidation, and a stretch of about 14 nucleotides on both strands of the nicked origin underwent limited unwinding. Addition of
Escherichia coli
single-stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) did not lead to further unwinding. However, addition of recombinant human single-stranded DNA binding protein (RPA) to the initiation reaction catalyzed extensive unwinding of the nicked origin, suggesting that RPA may be required to form a functional replication fork. Accordingly, the unwinding mediated by NS1 and RPA promoted processive leading-strand synthesis catalyzed by recombinant human DNA polymerase δ, PCNA, and RFC, using the minimal left-end origin cloned in a plasmid as a template. The requirement for RPA, rather than SSB, in the unwinding reaction indicated that specific NS1-RPA protein interactions were formed. NS1 was tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for binding to two- or three-subunit RPA complexes expressed from recombinant baculoviruses. NS1 efficiently bound each of the baculovirus-expressed complexes, indicating that the small subunit of RPA is not involved in specific NS1 binding. No NS1 interactions were observed with
E. coli
SSB or other proteins included as controls.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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