Binding of purified wild-type and mutant pi initiation proteins to a replication origin region of plasmid R6K
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Binding of purified wild-type and mutant pi initiation proteins to a replication origin region of plasmid R6K
Abstract
The three replication origins of the antibiotic resistance plasmid R6K require for their activity in Escherichia coli a DNA segment containing seven 22 base-pair direct repeats and a plasmid-encoded initiation protein (pi). The pi protein functions in the negative control of R6K replication, in addition to its requirement for the initiation of replication. Construction of a plasmid containing the pi structural gene (pir) downstream from the inducible pR promoter of bacteriophage lambda provided high levels of production of pi protein in E. coli. The pi protein was purified and shown to possess general DNA binding properties with a preference for DNA fragments containing the gamma origin of replication, the operator region of the pir gene and the R6K beta-origin region. Velocity sedimentation analysis indicates that the pi protein exists as a dimer in its native form. Agarose gel electrophoresis analysis of pi-gamma-origin complexes suggests that one pi dimer binds to each copy of the 22 base-pair direct repeats in the gamma origin region. Purified mutant pi protein obtained from a temperature-sensitive initiation mutant (pir 105-ts) exhibited temperature-sensitive binding activity to the gamma-origin region, whereas two mutant proteins exhibiting a high copy number phenotype were unaltered (pir104-cop) or slightly reduced (pir1-cop) in binding activity. The patterns of DNase I protection and enhancement were similar for the wild-type and mutant proteins examined.
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