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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 279, Issue 50, 52042-52051, December 10, 2004

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Human Rad54 Protein Stimulates DNA Strand Exchange Activity of hRad51 Protein in the Presence of Ca^2+*

Olga M. Mazina and Alexander V. Mazin

From the Department of Biochemistry, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-1192

Rad51 and Rad54 proteins play a key role in homologous recombination in eukaryotes. Recently, we reported that Ca²⁺ is required in vitro for human Rad51 protein to form an active nucleoprotein filament that is important for the search of homologous DNA and for DNA strand exchange, two critical steps of homologous recombination. Here we find that Ca²⁺ is also required for hRad54 protein to effectively stimulate DNA strand exchange activity of hRad51 protein. This finding identifies Ca²⁺ as a universal cofactor of DNA strand exchange promoted by mammalian homologous recombination proteins in vitro. We further investigated the hRad54-dependent stimulation of DNA strand exchange. The mechanism of stimulation appeared to include specific interaction of hRad54 protein with the hRad51 nucleoprotein filament. Our results show that hRad54 protein significantly stimulates homology-independent coaggregation of dsDNA with the filament, which represents an essential step of the search for homologous DNA. The results obtained indicate that hRad54 protein serves as a dsDNA gateway for the hRad51-ssDNA filament, promoting binding and an ATP hydrolysis-dependent translocation of dsDNA during the search for homologous sequences.

Received for publication, September 7, 2004 , and in revised form, October 4, 2004.

^* This work was supported by Drexel University College of Medicine Start-up Funds, Pennsylvania Health Research Formula Funds from the Tobacco Settlement Act, Drexel University Synergy Award, and National Institutes of Health Grant CA100839 (to A. V. M.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

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