Stoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli.
The multiprotein replisome complex that replicates DNA has been extensively characterized in vitro, but its composition and architecture in vivo is unknown. Using millisecond single-molecule fluorescence microscopy in living cells expressing fluorescent derivatives of replisome components, we have e...
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| author | Reyes-Lamothe, R Sherratt, D Leake, M |
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| description | The multiprotein replisome complex that replicates DNA has been extensively characterized in vitro, but its composition and architecture in vivo is unknown. Using millisecond single-molecule fluorescence microscopy in living cells expressing fluorescent derivatives of replisome components, we have examined replisome stoichiometry and architecture. Active Escherichia coli replisomes contain three molecules of the replicative polymerase, rather than the historically accepted two. These are associated with three molecules of tau, a clamp loader component that trimerizes polymerase. Only two of the three sliding clamps are always associated with the core replisome. Single-strand binding protein has a broader spatial distribution than the core components, with 5 to 11 tetramers per replisome. This in vivo technique could provide single-molecule insight into other molecular machines. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:90dced2d-0713-4c85-b489-2456c6ebe6d82022-03-26T23:14:39ZStoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:90dced2d-0713-4c85-b489-2456c6ebe6d8EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2010Reyes-Lamothe, RSherratt, DLeake, MThe multiprotein replisome complex that replicates DNA has been extensively characterized in vitro, but its composition and architecture in vivo is unknown. Using millisecond single-molecule fluorescence microscopy in living cells expressing fluorescent derivatives of replisome components, we have examined replisome stoichiometry and architecture. Active Escherichia coli replisomes contain three molecules of the replicative polymerase, rather than the historically accepted two. These are associated with three molecules of tau, a clamp loader component that trimerizes polymerase. Only two of the three sliding clamps are always associated with the core replisome. Single-strand binding protein has a broader spatial distribution than the core components, with 5 to 11 tetramers per replisome. This in vivo technique could provide single-molecule insight into other molecular machines. |
| spellingShingle | Reyes-Lamothe, R Sherratt, D Leake, M Stoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli. |
| title | Stoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli. |
| title_full | Stoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli. |
| title_fullStr | Stoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli. |
| title_short | Stoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli. |
| title_sort | stoichiometry and architecture of active dna replication machinery in escherichia coli |
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