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Analysis of DNA processing reactions in bacterial conjugation by using suicide oligonucleotides

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dc.creator González-Pérez, Blanca
dc.creator Lucas, María
dc.creator Cooke, Leonie A.
dc.creator Vyle, Joseph S.
dc.creator Cruz, Fernando de la
dc.creator Moncalián, Gabriel
dc.date 2008-05-12T16:30:23Z
dc.date 2008-05-12T16:30:23Z
dc.date 2007-07-26
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:15:18Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:15:18Z
dc.identifier EMBO Journal 26(16): 3847-3857 (2007)
dc.identifier 0261-4189
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/4176
dc.identifier 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601806
dc.identifier 1460-2075
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/4176
dc.description Protein TrwC is the conjugative relaxase responsible for DNA processing in plasmid R388 bacterial conjugation. TrwC has two catalytic tyrosines, Y18 and Y26, both able to carry out cleavage reactions using unmodified oligonucleotide substrates. Suicide substrates containing a 3'-S-phosphorothiolate linkage at the cleavage site displaced TrwC reaction towards covalent adducts and thereby enabled intermediate steps in relaxase reactions to be investigated. Two distinct covalent TrwC–oligonucleotide complexes could be separated from noncovalently bound protein by SDS–PAGE. As observed by mass spectrometry, one complex contained a single, cleaved oligonucleotide bound to Y18, whereas the other contained two cleaved oligonucleotides, bound to Y18 and Y26. Analysis of the cleavage reaction using suicide substrates and Y18F or Y26F mutants showed that efficient Y26 cleavage only occurs after Y18 cleavage. Strand-transfer reactions carried out with the isolated Y18–DNA complex allowed the assignment of specific roles to each tyrosine. Thus, only Y18 was used for initiation. Y26 was specifically used in the second transesterification that leads to strand transfer, thus catalyzing the termination reaction that occurs in the recipient cell.
dc.description This work was financed by Grants BFU2005-03477 from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, and EU 6th Framework Programme project SHM-CT-2005-019023 to FC and by the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering to JSV and LAC.
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Nature Publishing Group
dc.relation Preprint
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.emboj.7601806
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject 3'-S-phosphorothiolate-containing oligonucleotides
dc.subject Bacterial conjugation
dc.subject Relaxase
dc.subject Transesterification
dc.title Analysis of DNA processing reactions in bacterial conjugation by using suicide oligonucleotides
dc.type Artículo


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