Characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae PriA helicase and its ATPase and unwinding activities in DNA replication restart.

Min-Guan Lin, Yi-Ching Li, Chwan-Deng Hsiao

The Biochemical journal 2020 Oct 16

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DNA replication forks often encounter template DNA lesions that can stall their progression. The PriA-dependent pathway is the major replication restart mechanism in Gram-positive bacteria, and it requires several primosome proteins. Among them, PriA protein - a 3' to 5' superfamily-2 DNA helicase - is the key factor in recognizing DNA lesions and it also recruits other proteins. Here, we investigated the ATPase and helicase activities of Streptococcus pneumoniae PriA (SpPriA) through biochemical and kinetic analyses. By comparing various DNA substrates, we observed that SpPriA is unable to unwind duplex DNA with high GC content. We constructed a deletion mutant protein (SpPriAdeloop) from which the loop area of the DNA-binding domain of PriA had been removed. Functional assays on SpPriAdeloop revealed that the loop area is important in endowing DNA-binding properties on the helicase. We also show that the presence of DnaD loader protein is important for enhancing SpPriA ATPase and DNA unwinding activities. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society.

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Min-Guan Lin, Yi-Ching Li, Chwan-Deng Hsiao. Characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae PriA helicase and its ATPase and unwinding activities in DNA replication restart. The Biochemical journal. 2020 Oct 16;477(19):3911-3922