The central lysine in the P-loop motif of the Escherichia coli DnaA protein is essential for initiating DNA replication from the chromosomal origin, oriC, and the F factor origin, oriS, but is dispensable for initiation from the P1 plasmid origin, oriR
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The central lysine in the P-loop motif of the Escherichia coli DnaA protein is essential for initiating DNA replication from the chromosomal origin, oriC, and the F factor origin, oriS, but is dispensable for initiation from the P1 plasmid origin, oriR
Abstract
The Escherichia coli DnaA protein is essential for initiation of DNA replication from the chromosomal origin, oriC, and from certain plasmid origins such as oriR of P1, oriS of F, and ori of pSCS101. The DnaA protein binds ATP with high affinity and contains a P-loop motif assumed to be the binding site. Three mutations in the E. coli dnaA gene were constructed by oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis that changed amino acids in the P-loop. A DnaA protein, K178T, in which the central lysine was changed to the smaller amino acid threonine, was able to initiate DNA replication from P1 oriR, but was unable to initiate replication from E. coli oriC or F oriS in vivo. Mutant and wild-type DnaA proteins were overexpressed, partially purified, and tested for replication activity in vitro. The K178T DnaA protein could initiate replication from oriR, although with a decreased activity compared to the wild-type DnaA protein. No replication activity was detected for this mutant protein from oriC. The different responses of the oriR and oriC replicons to the K178T DnaA protein indicate that the role of DnaA is different in the two systems.
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