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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 263, Issue 29, 15016-15023, 10, 1988

Initiation of lagging-strand synthesis for pBR322 plasmid DNA replication in vitro is dependent on primosomal protein i encoded by dnaT

H Masai and K Arai
Department of Molecular Biology, DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, California 94304.

The role of the primosome assembly and protein n' recognition site in replication of pBR322 plasmid was examined. The following evidence indicates that the primosome is involved in lagging-strand synthesis of pBR322 plasmid replication in vitro. Early replicative intermediates with newly synthesized leading strand, approximately 1 kilobase pair long, immediately downstream of the replication origin accumulate in products synthesized in extracts from a dnaT strain that lacks primosomal protein i or in wild-type extracts supplemented with anti- protein i antibody. These intermediates are converted efficiently into full-length DNA by addition of purified protein i. Consistent with the previously proposed role of the primosome (Arai, K. and Kornberg, A. (1981) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 78, 69-73), an n' site on the lagging strand, but not on the leading strand, is required for efficient replication of the plasmid in vitro. Plasmids lacking an n' site on the lagging strand replicate only to a limited extent in vitro and early replicative intermediates carrying nascent leading strands are accumulated, although a portion of the intermediates complete replication to yield full-length DNA. The latter reaction is completely inhibited by addition of anti-protein i antibody. Insertion of the n' site of phage phi X174 into pBR322 plasmids lacking lagging-strand n' sites restores the replicative ability of the mutant plasmid comparable to that of the wild-type plasmid. These results indicate that protein i is essential for lagging-strand synthesis of pBR322 plasmid in vitro and that it may play an important role in the priming events as a part of either an n' site-dependent primosome or an n' site-independent, as yet unidentified, priming complex.
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