Dna Strand Displacement, Strand Annealing and Strand Swapping by the Drosophila Bloom's Syndrome Helicase.
From: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, 16 Barker Hall #3204, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-3204, USA.
Nucleic acids research
- Publish Date: 2007
- ISSN: 1362-4962
- Volume: 35
- Issue: 4
- Pages: 1367-76
- Medium: Internet
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Weinert Brian T, Rio Donald C, et al. Dna Strand Displacement, Strand Annealing and Strand Swapping by the Drosophila Bloom's Syndrome Helicase.. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007;35:1367-76
Abstract
Genetic analysis of the Drosophila Bloom’s syndrome helicase homolog (mus309/DmBLM) indicates that DmBLM is required for the synthesis-dependent strand annealing (SDSA) pathway of homologous recombination. Here we report the first biochemical study of DmBLM. Recombinant, epitope-tagged DmBLM was expressed in Drosophila cell culture and highly purified protein was prepared from nuclear extracts. Purified DmBLM exists exclusively as a high molecular weight ( approximately 1.17 MDa) species, is a DNA-dependent ATPase, has 3’ — >5’ DNA helicase activity, prefers forked substrate DNAs and anneals complementary DNAs. High-affinity DNA binding is ATP-dependent and low-affinity ATP-independent interactions contribute to forked substrate DNA binding and drive strand annealing. DmBLM combines DNA strand displacement with DNA strand annealing to catalyze the displacement of one DNA strand while annealing a second complementary DNA strand.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, DNA, DNA Helicases, DNA, Single-Stranded, Drosophila Proteins, Drosophila melanogaster, Recombination, Genetic
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