DNA binding properties of the adenovirus DNA replication priming protein pTP

AUTOR(ES)

de Jong, R. N.

FONTE

Oxford University Press

RESUMO

The precursor terminal protein pTP is the primer for the initiation of adenovirus (Ad) DNA replication and forms a heterodimer with Ad DNA polymerase (pol). Pol can couple dCTP to pTP directed by the fourth nucleotide of the viral genome template strand in the absence of other replication proteins, which suggests that pTP/pol binding destabilizes the origin or stabilizes an unwound state. We analyzed the contribution of pTP to pTP/pol origin binding using various DNA oligonucleotides. We show that two pTP molecules bind cooperatively to short DNA duplexes, while longer DNA fragments are bound by single pTP molecules as well. Cooperative binding to short duplexes is DNA sequence independent and most likely mediated by protein/protein contacts. Furthermore, we observed that pTP binds single-stranded (ss)DNA with a minimal length of approximately 35 nt and that random ssDNA competed 25-fold more efficiently than random duplex DNA for origin binding by pTP. Remarkably, short DNA fragments with two opposing single strands supported monomeric pTP binding. pTP did not stimulate, but inhibited strand displacement by the Ad DNA binding and unwinding protein DBP. These observations suggest a mechanism in which the ssDNA affinity of pTP stabilizes Ad pol on partially unwound origin DNA.

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