dnaG (primase)-dependent origins of DNA replication. Nucleotide sequences of the negative strand initiation sites of bacteriophages St-1, phi K, and alpha 3 - PubMed

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dnaG (primase)-dependent origins of DNA replication. Nucleotide sequences of the negative strand initiation sites of bacteriophages St-1, phi K, and alpha 3

J Sims et al. J Biol Chem. 1979.

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Abstract

The simplest known origins of DNA replication occur in the single-stranded bacteriophages. In one set of phages, negative strand synthesis is initiated by a single protein, the product of the Escherichia coli replication gene dnaG. Evidently, in these phages--G4, St-1, phi K, and alpha 3--the origin for negative strand synthesis consists of a nucleic acid element capable of direct recognition by the dnaG priming protein. We have located and sequenced the origins of negative strand synthesis in St-1, phi K, and alpha 3, and compared them with the origin sequence previously determined for G4. In each case, the point at which the negative strand is initiated can be identified at the nucleotide level. The data lead to the following conclusions: 1. In all four phages, the negative strand initiation site occurs within an intercistronic region of approximately 135 bases. While in G4, the origin lies between genes specifying the viral coat proteins F and G, the origin is shifted in St-1, phi K, and alpha 3 to a position between coat protein genes G and H. 2. Extensive nucleotide conservation exists at the negative strand origin, but does not extend into the adjacent coding regions. The conserved origin DNA occurs in two regions, 42 and 45 bases long, which are separated by 13 bases of divergent sequence. 3. Correlated with the two stretches of conserved nucleotide sequence are two regions of potential secondary structure. The start point of negative strand synthesis lies just prior to one of these hairpins. Similarities in both primary sequence and secondary structure can be found between the negative strand origins of G4, St-1, phi K, and alpha 3 and the general origin regions of bacteriophage lambda and of E. coli.

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