The Escherichia coli Tus–Ter replication fork barrier causes site-specific DNA replication perturbation in yeast

Nicolai B. Larsen, Ehud Sass, Catherine Suski, Hocine W. Mankouri () and Ian D. Hickson ()
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Nicolai B. Larsen: Nordea Center for Healthy Aging, Panum Institute 18.1, University of Copenhagen
Ehud Sass: Nordea Center for Healthy Aging, Panum Institute 18.1, University of Copenhagen
Catherine Suski: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford
Hocine W. Mankouri: Nordea Center for Healthy Aging, Panum Institute 18.1, University of Copenhagen
Ian D. Hickson: Nordea Center for Healthy Aging, Panum Institute 18.1, University of Copenhagen

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Replication fork (RF) pausing occurs at both ‘programmed’ sites and non-physiological barriers (for example, DNA adducts). Programmed RF pausing is required for site-specific DNA replication termination in Escherichia coli, and this process requires the binding of the polar terminator protein, Tus, to specific DNA sequences called Ter. Here, we demonstrate that Tus–Ter modules also induce polar RF pausing when engineered into the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome. This heterologous RF barrier is distinct from a number of previously characterized, protein-mediated, RF pause sites in yeast, as it is neither Tof1-dependent nor counteracted by the Rrm3 helicase. Although the yeast replisome can overcome RF pausing at Tus–Ter modules, this event triggers site-specific homologous recombination that requires the RecQ helicase, Sgs1, for its timely resolution. We propose that Tus–Ter can be utilized as a versatile, site-specific, heterologous DNA replication-perturbing system, with a variety of potential applications.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4574

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