Homology-dependent changes in adenosine 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis during recA protein-promoted DNA strand exchange: evidence for long paranemic complexes
- 8 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 26 (18) , 5616-5625
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00392a006
Abstract
As a first step in DNA strand exchange, recA protein forms a filamentous complex on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), which contains stoichiometric (one recA monomer per four nucleotides) amounts of recA protein. recA protein monomers within this complex hydrolyze ATP with a turnover number of 25 min-1. Upon introduction of linear homologous duplex DNA to initiate strand exchange, this rate of ATP hydrolysis drops by 33%. The decrease in rate is complete in less than 2 min, and the rate of ATP hydrolysis then remains constant during and subsequent to the strand exchange reaction. This drop is completely dependent upon homology in the duplex DNA. In addition, the magnitude of the drop is linearly dependent upon the length of the homologous region in the linear duplex DNA. Linear DNA substrates in which pairing is topologically restricted to a paranemic joint also follow this relationship. Taken together, these properties imply that all of the available homology in the incoming duplex DNA is detected very early in the DNA strand exchange reaction, with the linear duplex DNA paired paranemically with the homologous ssDNA in the complex throughout its length. The results indicate that paranemic joints can extend over thousands of base pairs. We note elsewhere [Pugh, B. F., and Cox, M. M. (1987b) J. Biol. Chem. 262, 1337-1343] that this duplex acquires resistance to digestion by DNase with a much slower time course (30 min, which parallels the progress of strand exchange. Together these results imply that the duplex DNA is paired with the ssDNA but remains outside the nucleoprotein filament. Finally, the results also support the notion that ATP hydrolysis occurs throughout the recA nucleoprotein filament.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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