TY - JOUR
T1 - MCM forked substrate specificity involves dynamic interaction with the 5′-tail
AU - Rothenberg, Eli
AU - Trakselis, Michael A.
AU - Bell, Stephen D.
AU - Ha, Taekjip
PY - 2007/11/23
Y1 - 2007/11/23
N2 - The archaeal minichromosome maintenance protein MCM forms a homohexameric complex that functions as the DNA replicative helicase and serves as a model system for its eukaryotic counterpart. Here, we applied single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer methods to probe the substrate specificity and binding mechanism of MCM from the hyperthermophilic Archaea Sulfolobus solfataricus on various DNA substrates. S. solfataricus MCM displays a binding preference for forked substrates relative to partial or full duplex substrates. Moreover, the nature of MCM binding to Y-shaped substrates is distinct in that MCM loads on the 3′-tail while interacting with the 5′-tail likely via the MCM surface. These results provide the first elucidation of a dynamic nature of interaction between a ring-shaped helicase interacting with an opposing single-stranded DNA tail. This interaction contributes to substrate selectivity and increases the stability of the forked DNA-MCM complex, with possible implications for the MCM unwinding mechanism.
AB - The archaeal minichromosome maintenance protein MCM forms a homohexameric complex that functions as the DNA replicative helicase and serves as a model system for its eukaryotic counterpart. Here, we applied single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer methods to probe the substrate specificity and binding mechanism of MCM from the hyperthermophilic Archaea Sulfolobus solfataricus on various DNA substrates. S. solfataricus MCM displays a binding preference for forked substrates relative to partial or full duplex substrates. Moreover, the nature of MCM binding to Y-shaped substrates is distinct in that MCM loads on the 3′-tail while interacting with the 5′-tail likely via the MCM surface. These results provide the first elucidation of a dynamic nature of interaction between a ring-shaped helicase interacting with an opposing single-stranded DNA tail. This interaction contributes to substrate selectivity and increases the stability of the forked DNA-MCM complex, with possible implications for the MCM unwinding mechanism.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.M706300200
DO - 10.1074/jbc.M706300200
M3 - Article
C2 - 17884823
AN - SCOPUS:36348987861
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 282
SP - 34229
EP - 34234
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 47
ER -