A model for SOS-lesion-targeted mutations in Escherichia coli

Phuong Pham, Jeffrey G. Bertram, Mike O'Donnell, Roger Woodgate and Myron F. Goodman ()
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Phuong Pham: Hedco Molecular Biology Laboratories, University of Southern California
Jeffrey G. Bertram: Hedco Molecular Biology Laboratories, University of Southern California
Mike O'Donnell: Rockefeller University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Roger Woodgate: Section on DNA Replication, Repair and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Myron F. Goodman: Hedco Molecular Biology Laboratories, University of Southern California

Nature, 2001, vol. 409, issue 6818, 366-370

Abstract: Abstract The UmuD′2C protein complex (Escherichia coli pol V)1,2,3 is a low-fidelity DNA polymerase (pol) that copies damaged DNA in the presence of RecA, single-stranded-DNA binding protein (SSB) and the β,γ-processivity complex of E. coli pol III (ref. 4). Here we propose a model to explain SOS-lesion-targeted mutagenesis, assigning specific biochemical functions for each protein during translesion synthesis. (SOS lesion-targeted mutagenesis occurs when pol V is induced as part of the SOS response to DNA damage and incorrectly incorporates nucleotides opposite template lesions.) Pol V plus SSB catalyses RecA filament disassembly in the 3′ to 5′ direction on the template, ahead of the polymerase, in a reaction that does not involve ATP hydrolysis. Concurrent ATP-hydrolysis-driven filament disassembly in the 5′ to 3′ direction results in a bidirectional stripping of RecA from the template strand. The bidirectional collapse of the RecA filament restricts DNA synthesis by pol V to template sites that are proximal to the lesion, thereby minimizing the occurrence of untargeted mutations at undamaged template sites.

Date: 2001
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