Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 109, Issue 21, Pages 8115-8120Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204759109
Keywords
molecular motors; single-molecule; strand displacement; replicative DNA polymerase
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Funding
- [BFU2011-29038-CO2-1]
- [CSD2007-00010]
- [BFU2010-15703/BMC]
- [BFU2008-00215/BMC]
- [CSD2007-00015]
- [RYC2007-01765]
- [S2009MAT-1507]
- [FIS2010-17440]
- [GR35/10-A-920GR35/10-A-911]
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Duplication of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) requires a fine-tuned coordination between the DNA replication and unwinding reactions. Using optical tweezers, we probed the coupling dynamics between these two activities when they are simultaneously carried out by individual Phi29 DNA polymerase molecules replicating a dsDNA hairpin. We used the wild-type and an unwinding deficient polymerase variant and found that mechanical tension applied on the DNA and the DNA sequence modulate in different ways the replication, unwinding rates, and pause kinetics of each polymerase. However, incorporation of pause kinetics in a model to quantify the unwinding reaction reveals that both polymerases destabilize the fork with the same active mechanism and offers insights into the topological strategies that could be used by the Phi29 DNA polymerase and other DNA replication systems to couple unwinding and replication reactions.
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