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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
20
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-5-17
pubmed:abstractText
The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins are essential conserved proteins required for DNA replication in archaea and eukaryotes. MCM proteins are believed to provide the replicative helicase activity that unwinds template DNA ahead of the replication fork. Consistent with this hypothesis, MCM proteins can form hexameric complexes that possess ATP-dependent DNA unwinding activity. The molecular mechanism by which the energy of ATP hydrolysis is harnessed to DNA unwinding is unknown, although the ATPase activity has been attributed to a highly conserved AAA+ family ATPase domain. Here we show that changes to N- and C-terminal motifs in the single MCM protein from the archaeon Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus (MthMCM) can modulate ATP hydrolysis, DNA binding, and duplex unwinding. Furthermore, these motifs appear to influence the movement of the beta-alpha-beta insert in helix-2 of the MCM ATPase domain. Removal of this motif from MthMCM increased dsDNA-stimulated ATP hydrolysis and increased the affinity of the mutant complex for ssDNA and dsDNA. Deletion of the helix-2 insert additionally resulted in the abrogation of DNA unwinding. Our results provide significant insight into the molecular mechanisms used by the MCM helicase to both regulate and execute DNA unwinding.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
16
pubmed:volume
103
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7613-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Minichromosome maintenance helicase activity is controlled by N- and C-terminal motifs and requires the ATPase domain helix-2 insert.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, University of York, P.O. Box 373, York YO10 5YW, United Kingdom.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't