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2015 - Journal of microbiology and biotechnology
Immunogenicity of a DNA and Recombinant Protein Vaccine Combining LipL32 and Loa22 for Leptospirosis Using Chitosan as a Delivery System.

Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonotic disease caused by pathogenic Leptospira, a genus of which more than 250 serovars have been identified. Commercial bacterin vaccines are limited in that they lack both cross-protection against heterologous serovars and long-term protection. This study investigated in mice the immunogenicity of an anti-leptospirosis vaccine, using the outer membrane proteins LipL32 and Loa22 as antigens. The immunogenicity of this vaccine formulation was compared with those induced by vaccines based on LipL32 or Loa22 alone. A DNA-encapsulated chitosan nanoparticle was used for in vivo DNA delivery. Using a unique DNA plasmid expressing both lipL32 and loa22 for vaccination, higher antibody responses were induced than when combining plasmids harboring each gene separately. Therefore, this formulation was used to test the immunogenicity when administered by a heterologous prime (DNA)-boost (protein) immunization regimen. The specific antibody responses against LipL32 (total IgG and IgG1) and Loa22 (IgG1) were higher in mice receiving two antigens in combination than in those vaccinated with a single antigen alone. Although no significant difference in splenic CD4+ T cell proliferation was observed among all groups of vaccinated mice, splenocytes from mice vaccinated with two antigens exhibited higher interferon-γ and IL-2 production than when using single antigens alone upon in vitro restimulation. Taken together, the immunogenicity induced by LipL32 and Loa22 antigens in a heterologous primeboost immunization regimen using chitosan as a DNA delivery system induces higher immune response, and may be useful for developing a better vaccine for leptospirosis.

2005 - Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B
Effects of medium composition on the production of plasmid DNA vector potentially for human gene therapy.

Plasmid vector is increasingly applied to gene therapy or gene vaccine. The production of plasmid pCMV-AP3 for cancer gene therapy was conducted in a modified MBL medium using a recombinant E. coli BL21 system. The effects of different MMBL components on plasmid yield, cell mass and specific plasmid DNA productivity were evaluated on shake-flask scale. The results showed that glucose was the optimal carbon source. High plasmid yield (58.3 mg/L) was obtained when 5.0 g/L glucose was added to MMBL. Glycerol could be chosen as a complementary carbon source because of the highest specific plasmid productivity (37.9 mg DNA/g DCW). After tests of different levels of nitrogen source and inorganic phosphate, a modified MMBL medium was formulated for optimal plasmid production. Further study showed that the initial acetate addition (less than 4.0 g/L) in MMBL improved plasmid production significantly, although it inhibited cell growth. The results will be useful for large-scale plasmid production using recombinant E. coli system.

1993 - Biochemistry
Laser-induced protein-DNA cross-links via psoralen furanside monoadducts.

We have developed a technique for cross-linking DNA binding proteins to DNA using psoralen furanside monoadducts as photoaffinity probes and a continuous-wave argon ion laser (366 nm) as a light source. Several DNA binding proteins (T7 RNA polymerase, UvrB, single-stranded DNA binding protein of Escherichia coli, T4 gp32, and RecA of E. coli) are shown to cross-link to single-stranded psoralen monoadducted DNA oligos differing in length and sequence. Increasing fluences of laser light on a fixed ratio of DNA/protein resulted in an increase in the yield of cross-links. Titration experiments were carried out to measure the apparent cross-linking constant (KappXL) for T7 RNA polymerase or UvrB to a monoadducted 24 mer DNA. The estimated values for the apparent cross-linking constant were in the range of (2-3) x 10(-7) M for both T7 RNA polymerase and UvrB. The efficiency of cross-linking was investigated as a function of the length of adducted DNA and also as a fraction of the total noncovalent binding of proteins of psoralenated DNAs. The results showed that in the cases of T7 RNA polymerase and UvrB cross-linking was more efficient with short oligos (8 and 19 mers) as compared to longer oligos (50 mer). A tryptic peptide of T7 RNA polymerase that was conjugated to a psoralen furanside monoadducted 12 mer DNA was isolated by high-performance liquid chromatography. Mass spectrometry and amino acid composition of this peptide revealed that it originated from a region between residues 558 and 608 of the primary structure of T7 RNA polymerase. Two other peptides cross-linked to oligos were also purified. Repeated attempts to perform Edman sequencing of the peptide-DNA conjugates failed. Overall evidence indicates that photo-cross-linking of furanside monoadducts occurred at multiple sites on the proteins. We have shown that T7 RNA polymerase molecules in a ternary complex arrested at the furanside monoadduct can be cross-linked to the DNA templates with laser light. Evidence suggests that the arrested polymerase molecules existed in multiple conformations on the DNA template. This method of transcriptional cross-linking offers a new method for preparing highly stable elongation complexes for further studies.

1984 - Nucleic acids research
Nucleotide sequence of the rpoA-rplQ DNA of Escherichia coli: a second regulatory binding site for protein S4?

The "alpha-operon" of E.coli is a unit of regulation comprising the following known genes, mostly encoding ribosomal proteins (in order of transcription, and with their products named in brackets): rpsM (S13), rpsK (S11), rpsD (S4), rpoA (alpha-subunit of RNA polymerase), rplQ (L17). There is evidence that S4 tightly regulates all of these genes, except rpoA, by repressing translation of the polycistronic mRNA. Binding of S4 to the S13 start-site is thought to regulate the first three genes. We have extended the 'rpsD-rpoA' sequences previously determined by others, to include all of rpoA and rplQ. The rpoA-rplQ intercistronic region shows strong primary, and potential secondary structural homologies with the S4-binding sites on 16S rRNA and S13 mRNA. We suggest that S4 represses L17 translation directly.

2016 - PLoS Pathogens
Live-Cell Imaging of Vaccinia Virus Recombination

Recombination between co-infecting poxviruses provides an important mechanism for generating the genetic diversity that underpins evolution. However, poxviruses replicate in membrane-bound cytoplasmic structures known as factories or virosomes. These are enclosed structures that could impede DNA mixing between co-infecting viruses, and mixing would seem to be essential for this process. We hypothesize that virosome fusion events would be a prerequisite for recombination between co-infecting poxviruses, and this requirement could delay or limit viral recombination. We have engineered vaccinia virus (VACV) to express overlapping portions of mCherry fluorescent protein fused to a cro DNA-binding element. In cells also expressing an EGFP-cro fusion protein, this permits live tracking of virus DNA and genetic recombination using confocal microscopy. Our studies show that different types of recombination events exhibit different timing patterns, depending upon the relative locations of the recombining elements. Recombination between partly duplicated sequences is detected soon after post-replicative genes are expressed, as long as the reporter gene sequences are located in cis within an infecting genome. The same kinetics are also observed when the recombining elements are divided between VACV and transfected DNA. In contrast, recombination is delayed when the recombining sequences are located on different co-infecting viruses, and mature recombinants aren’t detected until well after late gene expression is well established. The delay supports the hypothesis that factories impede inter-viral recombination, but even after factories merge there remain further constraints limiting virus DNA mixing and recombinant gene assembly. This delay could be related to the continued presence of ER-derived membranes within the fused virosomes, membranes that may once have wrapped individual factories.

2003 - Biochemistry
Thermodynamic aspects and biological profile of CDAN/DOPE and DC-Chol/DOPE lipoplexes.

The DNA complexation and condensation properties of two established cationic liposome formulations, CDAN/DOPE (50:50, m/m; Trojene) and DC-Chol/DOPE (60:40, m/m), were investigated by using a combination of isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), circular dichroism (CD), photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS), and turbidity assays. Plasmid DNA (7528 bp) was titrated with extruded liposomes (90 +/- 15 nm) and a thermodynamic profile established. ITC data revealed that the two liposome formulations differ substantially in their DNA complexation characteristics. Equilibrium dissociation constants for CDAN/DOPE (K(d) = 19 +/- 3 microM) and DC-Chol/DOPE liposomes (K(d) = 2 +/- 0.5 microM) were obtained by fitting the experimental data in a one-site binding model. Both CDAN/DOPE and DC-Chol/DOPE binding events take place with a negative binding enthalpy (DeltaH degrees = -0.5 and -1.7 kcal/mol, respectively) and increasing system entropy (TDeltaS = 6 +/- 0.3 and 6.2 +/- 0.3 kcal/mol, respectively). Interestingly, CDAN/DOPE liposomes undergo substantial rehydration and protonation prior to complexation with pDNA, which is observed as two discrete exothermic signals during titration. No such biphasic effects are seen with respect to the binding between DC-Chol/DOPE and pDNA that appears to be otherwise instantaneous with no rehydration effects. The rehydration and protonation characteristics of CDAN/DOPE liposomes in comparison with those of DC-Chol/DOPE cationic liposomes are confirmed by ITC; CDAN/DOPE liposomes have strongly exothermic dilution characteristics and DC-Chol/DOPE liposomes only mildly endothermic characteristics. Furthermore, analysis of cationic liposome-pDNA binding by CD spectroscopy reveals that CDAN/DOPE-pDNA lipoplexes are more structurally fluid than DC-Chol/DOPE-pDNA lipoplexes. CDAN/DOPE liposomes induced considerable fluctuation in the DNA structure for at least 60 min, whereas liposomes obtained from DC-Chol/DOPE lack the same effect on the DNA structure. Turbidity studies show that DC-Chol/DOPE lipoplexes exhibit greater resistance to serum than CDAN/DOPE lipoplexes, which showed substantial precipitation after incubation for 100 min with serum. Transfection studies on HeLa and Panc-1 cells reveal that CDAN/DOPE lipoplexes are superior in efficacy to DC-Chol/DOPE lipoplexes. CDAN/DOPE liposomes tend to transfect best in normal growth medium (including 10% serum and antibiotics), whereas DC-Chol/DOPE lipoplexes transfect best under serum free transfection conditions.

1994
Transfer of the plJ101 plasmid in Streptomyces lividans requires a cis‐acting function dispensable for chromosomal gene transfer

The tra gene of Streptomyces lividans plasmid plJ101 is required for both plasmid DNA transfer and plJ101‐induced mobilization of chromosomal genes during mating. We show that a chromosomally inserted copy of tra mediates transfer of chromosomal DNA at high frequency but promotes efficient transfer of plasmids only when they contain a previously unknown locus, here named clt. Insertional mutation or deletion of clt from plJ101 reduced plasmid transfer mediated by either plasmid‐borne or chromosomally located tra by at least three orders of magnitude, abolished the transfer‐associated pocking phenomenon, and interfered with the ability of tra+ plasmids to promote transfer of chromosomal DNA. Our results indicate that plasmid transfer in S. lividans involves a cis‐acting function dispensable for chromosomal gene transfer and imply that either the S. lividans chromosome encodes its own clt‐like function or, alternatively, that transfer of plasmid and chromosomal DNA occurs by different mechanisms.

1999 - Biochemistry
Inhibition of RNA polymerase II transcription in human cell extracts by cisplatin DNA damage.

The anticancer drug cisplatin induces a spectrum of lesions in DNA. The effect of such DNA damage on transcription by RNA polymerase II (RNA pol II) in human cell extracts was investigated at the level of initiation and elongation. RNA pol II transcription directed from the adenovirus major late promoter was inhibited following treatment of the promoter-containing template with increasing concentrations of cisplatin. Furthermore, transcription from an undamaged promoter fragment was depleted in the presence of increasing amounts of cisplatin DNA damage on an exogenous plasmid, suggesting such damage may hijack an essential factor for transcription initiation. The effect of cisplatin damage on RNA pol II elongation was investigated using site-specifically-placed cisplatin adducts. The GTG adduct was an effective block to RNA pol II elongation, inhibiting the polymerase by 80%. In contrast, RNA pol II completely bypassed the cisplatin GG intrastrand adduct. These studies suggest that the inhibition of RNA pol II transcription observed following the treatment of cells with cisplatin is likely to reflect the combined effects of DNA damage at the level of both transcription initiation and elongation.

1993
Introducing DNA into Yeast by Transformation

Abstract Transformation and electroporation protocols that yield more than one million yeast colonies per microgram of plasmid DNA have been developed. In the LiAc/SS-DNA/PEG protocol, cells are treated with lithium acetate, incubated with plasmid and single-stranded carrier DNA in the presence of PEG 3350, heat-shocked, and plated onto selective medium. The electroporation protocol involves the administration of a high-voltage pulse to cells that have been heat-shocked in the presence of single-stranded carrier DNA, plasmid DNA, and PEG. This protocol is rapid and can be completed in approximately 30 min. Spheroplast transformation requires the removal of the yeast cell wall with β-glucanase or β-glucuronidase. The spheroplasts are incubated with plasmid DNA and PEG and plated in osmotically stabilized agar. We also describe a protocol for the preparation of transformation-competent cells that can be stored at −70°C. The frozen cells are transformed with plasmid DNA in the presence of single-stranded carrier DNA and PEG. The numbers of transformants obtained with these protocols are sufficient for complex genomic, cDNA, and gene fusion libraries, facilitating the molecular analysis of the structure and function of genes from higher eukaryotes.

1993 - Nature
CAP interacts with RNA polymerase in solution in the absence of promoter DNA

PROTEIN-PROTEIN interactions between transcription activator proteins and RNA polymerase or basal transcription factors have been suggested to be important for transcription activation1–8. Interactions between catabolite gene activator protein (CAP)9,10 and RNA polymerase have been proposed based on face-of-helix-dependent transcription activation by CAP11–13 and based on face-of-helix-dependent cooperative binding of CAP and RNA polymerase to promoter DNA14,15. Mutants of CAP specifically defective in transcription activation have been isolated (mutants defective in transcription activation, but not defective in DNA binding and DNA bending16–19). All such mutants contain amino-acid substitutions within a surface loop consisting of amino acids 152 to 166 of CAP16–19. Here we use the thermodynamically rigorous technique of fluorescence polarization20–23 to show that CAP interacts with RNA polymerase in solution in the absence of promoter DNA (K D.app = 2.8 x 10-7 M), whereas [Alal58]CAP, a mutant of CAP specifically defective in transcription activation, does not.

2009 - Molecular and Cellular Biology
Fbh1 Limits Rad51-Dependent Recombination at Blocked Replication Forks

ABSTRACT Controlling the loading of Rad51 onto DNA is important for governing when and how homologous recombination is used. Here we use a combination of genetic assays and indirect immunofluorescence to show that the F-box DNA helicase (Fbh1) functions in direct opposition to the Rad52 orthologue Rad22 to curb Rad51 loading onto DNA in fission yeast. Surprisingly, this activity is unnecessary for limiting spontaneous direct-repeat recombination. Instead it appears to play an important role in preventing recombination when replication forks are blocked and/or broken. When overexpressed, Fbh1 specifically reduces replication fork block-induced recombination, as well as the number of Rad51 nuclear foci that are induced by replicative stress. These abilities are dependent on its DNA helicase/translocase activity, suggesting that Fbh1 exerts its control on recombination by acting as a Rad51 disruptase. In accord with this, overexpression of Fbh1 also suppresses the high levels of recombinant formation and Rad51 accumulation at a site-specific replication fork barrier in a strain lacking the Rad51 disruptase Srs2. Similarly overexpression of Srs2 suppresses replication fork block-induced gene conversion events in an fbh1Δ mutant, although an inability to suppress deletion events suggests that Fbh1 has a distinct functionality, which is not readily substituted by Srs2.

1999 - Molecular and Cellular Biology
Detection of RAG Protein-V(D)J Recombination Signal Interactions Near the Site of DNA Cleavage by UV Cross-Linking

ABSTRACT V(D)J recombination is initiated by double-strand cleavage at recombination signal sequences (RSSs). DNA cleavage is mediated by the RAG1 and RAG2 proteins. Recent experiments describing RAG protein-RSS complexes, while defining the interaction of RAG1 with the nonamer, have not assigned contacts immediately adjacent to the site of DNA cleavage to either RAG polypeptide. Here we use UV cross-linking to define sequence- and site-specific interactions between RAG1 protein and both the heptamer element of the RSS and the coding flank DNA. Hence, RAG1-DNA contacts span the site of cleavage. We also detect cross-linking of RAG2 protein to some of the same nucleotides that cross-link to RAG1, indicating that, in the binding complex, both RAG proteins are in close proximity to the site of cleavage. These results suggest how the heptamer element, the recognition surface essential for DNA cleavage, is recognized by the RAG proteins and have implications for the stoichiometry and active site organization of the RAG1-RAG2-RSS complex.

2000 - Cancer research
Enhancement of tumor-specific immune response with plasmid DNA replicon vectors.

To enhance the immunogenicity of nucleic acid vaccines, we used plasmid DNA vectors that contained replicons derived from the prototype alphavirus, Sindbis, and another alphavirus, Semliki Forest virus. When transfected into cells or injected directly into animal muscle, these plasmids launch a self-replicating RNA vector (replicon) which in turn directs the expression of a model tumor antigen. Immunization with plasmid DNA replicons elicited immune responses at doses 100 to 1000-fold lower than conventional DNA plasmids and effectively treated mice bearing an experimental tumor expressing the model antigen. Significantly, replicon-based DNA plasmids did not produce a greater quantity of antigen; instead, antigen production differed qualitatively. Plasmid DNA replicons mediated antigen production that was homogeneous in all transfected cells and associated with the apoptotic death of the host cells. Because of their safety and efficacy, plasmid DNA replicons may be useful in the development of recombinant vaccines for infectious diseases and cancer.

2001 - Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy
Long-term and therapeutic-level hepatic gene expression of human factor IX after naked plasmid transfer in vivo.

Naked DNA transfer of a high-expressing human factor IX (hFIX) plasmid yielded long-term (over 1 1/2 years) and therapeutic-level (0.5-2 microg/ml) gene expression of hFIX from mouse livers. The expression cassette contained a hepatic locus control region from the ApoE gene locus, an alpha1-anti-trypsin promoter, hFIX cDNA, a portion of the hFIX first intron, and a bovine growth hormone polyadenylation signal. In contrast, a hFIX plasmid containing the expression cassette without effective regulatory elements produced initially low-level gene expression that rapidly declined to undetectable levels. Southern analyses of the cellular DNA indicated that the majority of the input genome from either vector persisted as episomal forms of the original plasmids. Together with RT-PCR analyses of the transcripts, these data indicated that at least two processes are critical for sustained gene expression: persistence of vector DNA and transcriptional/posttranscriptional activation. Liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy resulted in a significant decline in transgene expression, further suggestive of decreased episomal plasmid maintenance rather than transgene integration. Transaminase levels and liver histology showed that rapid intravenous plasmid injection into mice induced transient focal acute liver damage (< 5% of hepatocytes), which was rapidly repaired within 3 to 10 days and resulted thereafter in histologically normal tissue. No significant differences were observed between rapid injection of plasmid and saline control solutions. Transient, very low level antibodies directed against hFIX did not prevent the circulation of therapeutic levels of the protein. Gene transfer of hFIX plasmid DNA into liver elicited neither transgene-specific cytotoxic effect nor long-term toxicity. These results demonstrate that long-term expression of hFIX can be achieved by nonviral plasmid transfer and suggest that this occurs independent of integration.

2005 - Molecular cell
Nature of the nucleosomal barrier to RNA polymerase II.

In the cell, RNA polymerase II (pol II) efficiently transcribes DNA packaged into nucleosomes, but in vitro encounters with the nucleosomes induce catalytic inactivation (arrest) of the pol II core enzyme. To determine potential mechanisms making nucleosomes transparent to transcription in vivo, we analyzed the nature of the nucleosome-induced arrest. We found that the arrests have been detected mostly at positions of strong intrinsic pause sites of DNA. The transient pausing makes pol II vulnerable to arrest, which involves backtracking of the elongation complex for a considerable distance on DNA. The histone-DNA contacts reestablished in front of pol II stabilize backtracked conformation of the polymerase. In agreement with this mechanism, blocking of backtracking prevents nucleosome-induced arrest. Transcript cleavage factor TFIIS reactivates the backtracked complexes and promotes pol II transcription through the nucleosome. Our findings establish the crucial role of elongation factors that suppress pol II pausing and backtracking for transcription in the context of chromatin.

1977 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Functional expression of cloned yeast DNA in Escherichia coli.

A collection of hybrid circular DNAs was constructed in vitro using the poly(dA-dT) "connector" method: each hybrid circle contained one molecule of poly(dT)-tailed DNA of plasmid ColE1 (made linear by digestion with EcoRI endonuclease) annealed to a poly(dA)-tailed fragment of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) DNA, produced originally by shearing total yeast DNA to an average size of 8 X 10(6) daltons. This DNA preparation was used to transform E. coli cells, selecting colicin-E1-resistant clones that contain hybrid ColE1-yeast DNA plasmids. Sufficient numbers of transformant clones were obtained to ensure that the hybrid plasmid population was representative of the entire yeast genome. Various hybrid ColE1-yeast DNA plasmids capable of complementing E. coli auxotrophic mutations were selected from this population. Plasmid pYeleu 10 complements several different point or deletion mutations in the E. coli or S. typhimurium leuB gene (beta-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase); plasmids pYeleu11, pYeleu12, and pYeleu17 are specific suppressors of the leuB6 mutation in E. coli C600. Plasmid pYehis2 complements a deletion in the E. coli hisB gene (imidazole glycerol phosphate dehydratase). Complementation of bacterial mutations by yeast DNA segments does not appear to be a rare phenomenon.

1997 - Journal of immunology
The dominant role of bone marrow-derived cells in CTL induction following plasmid DNA immunization at different sites.

Although plasmid DNA immunization provides an effective means of inducing CTL responses to an expressed Ag, the mechanism by which CTL precursors are activated remains to be established. Insights could be gained by identifying the cells responsible for Ag presentation when DNA is introduced into different tissue sites. By immunizing parent into F1 bone marrow chimeric mice with an influenza nucleoprotein-expressing plasmid, we have demonstrated that the key cells in this presentation process for both gene gun-mediated epidermal injection and needle intramuscular injection of plasmid DNA are bone marrow derived. Furthermore, as assessed by intramuscular injection, coexpression of nucleoprotein with the costimulatory molecule B7-2, or the cytokines granulocyte-macrophage CSF and IL-12, did not convert nonhemopoietic cells into APCs. Thus, for two distinctly different modes of DNA immunization, in one case with or without coexpressed immunostimulatory factors, the APCs were consistently found to be of hemopoietic origin.

2011 - Annual review of genetics
V(D)J recombination: mechanisms of initiation.

V(D)J recombination assembles immunoglobulin and T cell receptor genes during lymphocyte development through a series of carefully orchestrated DNA breakage and rejoining events. DNA cleavage requires a series of protein-DNA complexes containing the RAG1 and RAG2 proteins and recombination signals that flank the recombining gene segments. In this review, we discuss recent advances in our understanding of the function and domain organization of the RAG proteins, the composition and structure of RAG-DNA complexes, and the pathways that lead to the formation of these complexes. We also consider the functional significance of RAG-mediated histone recognition and ubiquitin ligase activities, and the role played by RAG in ensuring proper repair of DNA breaks made during V(D)J recombination. Finally, we propose a model for the formation of RAG-DNA complexes that involves anchoring of RAG1 at the recombination signal nonamer and RAG2-dependent surveillance of adjoining DNA for suitable spacer and heptamer sequences.

2003 - Nature
DNA helicase Srs2 disrupts the Rad51 presynaptic filament

Mutations in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene SRS2 result in the yeast's sensitivity to genotoxic agents, failure to recover or adapt from DNA damage checkpoint-mediated cell cycle arrest, slow growth, chromosome loss, and hyper-recombination. Furthermore, double mutant strains, with mutations in DNA helicase genes SRS2 and SGS1, show low viability that can be overcome by inactivating recombination, implying that untimely recombination is the cause of growth impairment. Here we clarify the role of SRS2 in recombination modulation by purifying its encoded product and examining its interactions with the Rad51 recombinase. Srs2 has a robust ATPase activity that is dependent on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and binds Rad51, but the addition of a catalytic quantity of Srs2 to Rad51-mediated recombination reactions causes severe inhibition of these reactions. We show that Srs2 acts by dislodging Rad51 from ssDNA. Thus, the attenuation of recombination efficiency by Srs2 stems primarily from its ability to dismantle the Rad51 presynaptic filament efficiently. Our findings have implications for the basis of Bloom's and Werner's syndromes, which are caused by mutations in DNA helicases and are characterized by increased frequencies of recombination and a predisposition to cancers and accelerated ageing.

1998 - Nature
Transposition mediated by RAG1 and RAG2 and its implications for the evolution of the immune system

Immunoglobulin and T-cell-receptor genes are assembled from component gene segments in developing lymphocytes by a site-specific recombination reaction, V (D)J recombination. The proteins encoded by the recombination-activating genes, RAG1 and RAG2, are essential in this reaction, mediating sequence-specific DNA recognition of well-defined recombination signals and DNA cleavage next to these signals. Here we show that RAG1 and RAG2 together form a transposase capable of excising a piece of DNA containing recombination signals from a donor site and inserting it into a target DNA molecule. The products formed contain a short duplication of target DNA immediately flanking the transposed fragment, a structure like that created by retroviral integration and all known transposition reactions. The results support the theory that RAG1 and RAG2 were once components of a transposable element, and that the split nature of immunoglobulin and T-cell-receptor genes derives from germline insertion of this element into an ancestral receptor gene soon after the evolutionary divergence of jawed and jawless vertebrates.

Elevated recombination rates in transcriptionally active DNA

Rodney Rothstein
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R. Rothstein
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B. Thomas
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Barbara J. Thomas

Abstract:We have examined the effect of RNA polymerase II-dependent transcription on recombination between directly repeated sequences of the GAL10 gene in S. cerevisiae. Direct repeat recombination leading either to plasmid loss or conversion was examined in isogenic strains containing null mutations in the positive activator, GAL4, or the repressor, GAL80. A 15-fold increase in the rate of plasmid loss is observed in cells constitutively expressing the construct compared with cells that are not. Conversion events that retain the integrated plasmid are not stimulated by expression of the repeats. Northern analysis of strains containing plasmid inserts with various promoter mutations suggests that the stimulation in recombination is mediated by events initiating within the integrated plasmid sequences.

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