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Dissecting the functional role of PriA protein-catalysed primosome assembly in Escherichia coli DNA replication

K H Zavitz et al. Mol Microbiol. 1991 Dec.

Abstract

The multi-functional PriA protein of Escherichia coli (formerly replication factor Y or protein n') serves to guide the ordered assembly of the primosome, a mobile multiprotein replication priming/helicase complex. Primosome assembly is essential for bacteriophage OX174 complementary DNA strand synthesis and ColE1-type plasmid replication reconstituted in vitro with purified proteins. The biochemical activities of the primosome suggest that it can fulfill the primase/helicase requirement on the lagging-strand DNA template during cellular DNA replication. However, reconstruction in vitro of DNA replication of small plasmids containing the E. coli origin of DNA replication (oriC) does not require the complete complement of primosomal proteins. Thus, the extent to which PriA-catalysed primosome assembly participates in chromosomal replication has remained unclear. The recent isolation of the genes encoding PriA, PriB (protein n), PriC (protein n"), and DnaT (protein i) has provided the necessary tools for addressing this issue. The phenotype of mutations in these genes, and other results described in this review, suggest that assembly of the primosome catalysed by PriA does in fact contribute at some stage to normal cellular DNA replication. A model for primososme-catalysed reactivation of a dysfunctional replication fork is discussed.

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