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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 275, Issue 44, 34609-34618, November 3, 2000
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Subunit of DNA Polymerase III Holoenzyme Serves as a
Sliding Clamp Unloader in Escherichia coli*
,
, and
From the In Escherichia coli, the circular
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Graduate School of
Medical Sciences of Cornell University, Department of Pharmacology,
New York, New York 10021 and § The Rockefeller University
and ** Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory of DNA
Replication, New York, New York 10021
sliding clamp facilitates processive DNA replication by tethering the
polymerase to primer-template DNA. When synthesis is complete,
polymerase dissociates from
and DNA and cycles to a new start site,
a primed template loaded with
. DNA polymerase cycles frequently
during lagging strand replication while synthesizing
1-2-kilobase Okazaki fragments. The clamps left behind remain
stable on DNA (t1/2 ~ 115 min) and must be
removed rapidly for reuse at numerous primed sites on the lagging
strand. Here we show that
, a single subunit of DNA polymerase III
holoenzyme, opens
and slips it off DNA (kunloading = 0.011 s
1) at a rate similar to that of the
multisubunit
complex clamp loader by itself (0.015 s
1) or within polymerase (pol) III*
(0.0065 s
1). Moreover, unlike
complex and
pol III*,
does not require ATP to catalyze clamp unloading.
Quantitation of
complex subunits (
,
,
',
,
) in
E. coli cells reveals an excess of
, free from
complex and pol III*. Since pol III* and
complex occur in much
lower quantities and perform several DNA metabolic functions in
replication and repair, the
subunit probably aids
clamp recycling during DNA replication.
Present address: Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143.
**
To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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