Modes of Overinitiation, dnaA Gene Expression, and Inhibition of Cell Division in a Novel Cold-Sensitive hda Mutant of Escherichia coli

Author:

Fujimitsu Kazuyuki1,Su'etsugu Masayuki1,Yamaguchi Yoko1,Mazda Kensaku1,Fu Nisi1,Kawakami Hironori1,Katayama Tsutomu1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan

Abstract

ABSTRACT The chromosomal replication cycle is strictly coordinated with cell cycle progression in Escherichia coli . ATP-DnaA initiates replication, leading to loading of the DNA polymerase III holoenzyme. The DNA-loaded form of the β clamp subunit of the polymerase binds the Hda protein, which promotes ATP-DnaA hydrolysis, yielding inactive ADP-DnaA. This regulation is required to repress overinitiation. In this study, we have isolated a novel cold-sensitive hda mutant, the hda - 185 mutant. The hda - 185 mutant caused overinitiation of chromosomal replication at 25°C, which most likely led to blockage of replication fork progress. Consistently, the inhibition of colony formation at 25°C was suppressed by disruption of the diaA gene, an initiation stimulator. Disruption of the seqA gene, an initiation inhibitor, showed synthetic lethality with hda - 185 even at 42°C. The cellular ATP-DnaA level was increased in an hda - 185 -dependent manner. The cellular concentrations of DnaA protein and dnaA mRNA were comparable at 25°C to those in a wild-type hda strain. We also found that multiple copies of the ribonucleotide reductase genes ( nrdAB or nrdEF ) or dnaB gene repressed overinitiation. The cellular levels of dATP and dCTP were elevated in cells bearing multiple copies of nrdAB . The catalytic site within NrdA was required for multicopy suppression, suggesting the importance of an active form of NrdA or elevated levels of deoxyribonucleotides in inhibition of overinitiation in the hda - 185 cells. Cell division in the hda - 185 mutant was inhibited at 25°C in a LexA regulon-independent manner, suggesting that overinitiation in the hda - 185 mutant induced a unique division inhibition pathway.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

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