SbcC-SbcD and Exol Process Convergent Forks to Complete Chromosome Replication

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PNAS

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Citation

Publication Date

1-9-2018

Abstract

SbcC-SbcD are the bacterial orthologs of Mre11-Rad50, a nuclease complex essential for genome stability, normal development, and viability in mammals. In vitro, these enzymes degrade long DNA palindromic structures. When inactivated along with ExoI in Escherichia coli, or Sae2 in eukaryotes, palindromic amplifications arise and propagate in cells. However, long DNA palindromes are not normally found in bacterial or human genomes, leaving the cellular substrates and function of these enzymes unknown. Here, we show that during the completion of DNA replication, convergent replication forks form a palindrome-like structural intermediate that requires nucleolytic processing by SbcC-SbcD and ExoI before chromosome replication can be completed. Inactivation of these nucleases prevents completion from occurring, and under these conditions, cells maintain viability by shunting the reaction through an aberrant recombinational pathway that leads to amplifications and instability in this region. The results identify replication completion as an event critical to maintain genome integrity and cell viability, demonstrate SbcC-SbcD-ExoI acts before RecBCD and is required to initiate the completion reaction, and reveal how defects in completion result in genomic instability.

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This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1715960114/-/DCSupplemental

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1715960114

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/25362

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