DNA helical instability facilitates initiation at the SV40 replication origin
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DNA helical instability facilitates initiation at the SV40 replication origin
Abstract
Previous analysis of mutations in bacterial and yeast replication origins has identified a genetic component, termed a DNA unwinding element (DUE), whose intrinsic helical instability is essential for origin function. For the SV40 replication origin, we show here that the early palindrome (EP) and A + T-rich (AT) domains both exhibit helical instability, despite their dissimilar A + T compositions. To test the possible contribution of helical instability to SV40 origin function, the relationship between helical stability of mutant origin sequences and their known origin activity in vitro and in vivo was examined. Origin activity correlates inversely with the helical stability of mutations within the EP domain but not the AT domain or the T-antigen binding domain. The quantitative correlation holds for four different measures of origin activity determined in vitro and in vivo. An even better-correlated collection of mutations was found in a specific portion of the EP domain. This specific EP subdomain coincides with the sequence known to be strand-separated after T-antigen binds the origin in vitro and with the origin of bidirectional replication in vivo. Our analysis of origin mutations indicates that the helical instability of the specific EP subdomain is required to facilitate T-antigen-induced melting and the initiation of DNA replication. The sensitivity of the required EP subdomain to mutations that stabilize the DNA helix defines the DUE of the SV40 replication origin.
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