Accessory proteins impose site selectivity during ColE1 dimer resolution

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 613-620

  Guhathakurta, Anjan ^a,b   Viney, Ian ^a,c   Summers, David ^a  

^a Department of Genetics ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

EID: 0029947260     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.5471072.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Bachmann, B.J. (1972) Pedigrees of some mutant strains of Escherichia coli K-12. Bact Revs 36: 525-557.
2. Blakely, G., Colloms, S., May, G., Burke, M., and Sherratt, D. (1991) Escherichia coli XerC recombinase is required for chromosomal segregation at cell division. New Biol 3: 789-798.
3. Blakely, G.W., May, G., McCulloch, R., Arciszewska, L.K., Burke, M., Lovett, S.T., and Sherratt, D.J. (1993) Two related recombinases are required for site-specific recombination at dif and cer in Escherichia coli K-12. Cell 75: 351-361.
4. Chang, A.C.Y., and Cohen, S.N. (1978) Construction and characterisation of amplifiable multicopy DNA cloning vehicles derived from the p15A cryptic miniplasmid. J Bacteriol 134: 1141-1156.
5. Colloms, S.D., Sykora, P., Szatmari, G., and Sherratt, D.J. (1990) Recombination at ColE1 cer requires the Escherichia coli xerC gene product, a member of the lambda integrase family. J Bacteriol 172: 6973-6980.
6. Guhathakurta, A., and Summers, D. (1995) Involvement of ArgR and PepA in the pairing of ColE1 dimer resolution sites. Microbiology 141: 1163-1171.
7. Holmes, D.S., and Quigley, M. (1981) A rapid boiling method for the preparation of bacterial plasmids. Anal Biochem 114: 193-197.
8. Kuempel, P.L., Henson, J.M., Dircks, L., Tecklenburg, M., and Lim, D.F. (1991) dif, a recA-independent recombination site in the terminus region of the chromosome of Escherichia coli. New Biol 3: 799-811.
9. Morlon, J., Chartier, M., Bidaud, M., and Lazdunski, C. (1988) The complete nucleotide sequence of the colicinogenic plasmid ColA. High extent of homology with ColE1. Molecular and General Genetics 211: 231-243.
10. Patient, M.E., and Summers, D.K. (1993) ColE1 multimer formation triggers inhibition of E. coli cell division. Mol Microbiol 8: 1089-1095.
11. Stirling, C.J., Szatmari, G., Stewart, G., Smith, M.C.M., and Sherratt, D.J. (1988) The arginine repressor is essential for plasmid stabilizing site-specific recombination at the ColE1 cer locus. EMBO Journal 7: 4389-4395.
12. Stirling, C.J., Colloms, S.D., Collins, J.F., Szatmari, G., and Sherratt, D.J. (1989) An Escherichia coli gene required for plasmid ColE1 site-specific recombination is identical to pepA, encoding aminopeptidase A, a protein with substantial similarity to bovine lens leucine aminopeptidase. EMBO Journal 8: 1623-1627.
13. Summers, D.K. (1989) Derivatives of ColE1 cer show altered topological specificity in site-specific recombination. EMBO J 8: 309-315.
14. Summers, D.K., and Sherratt, D.J. (1984) Multimerization of high copy number plasmids causes instability: ColE1 encodes a determinant essential for plasmid monomerization and stability. Cell 36: 1097-1103.
15. Summers, D.K., and Sherratt, D.J. (1988) Resolution of ColE1 dimers requires a DNA sequence implicated in the three-dimensional organization of the cer site. EMBO J 7: 851-858.
16. Summers, D., Yaish, S., Archer, J., and Sherratt, D. (1985) Multimer resolution systems of ColE1 and ColK: localisation of the crossover site. Mol Gen Genet 201: 334-338.
17. Summers, D.K., Beton, C.W.H., and Withers, H.L. (1993) Multicopy plasmid instability: the dimer catastrophe hypothesis. Mol Microbiol 8: 1031-1038.
18. Vieira, J., and Messing, J. (1982) The pUC plasmids, an M13mp7-derived system for insertion mutagenesis and sequencing with synthetic universal primers. Gene 19: 259-268.
19. Yasueda, H., Horii, T., and Itoh, T. (1989) Structural and functional organisation of ColE2 and ColE3 replicon. Mol Gen Genet 215: 209-216.