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Single-molecule imaging reveals molecular coupling between transcription and DNA repair machinery in live cells

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  • Han Ngoc Ho

    (University of Wollongong
    Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute)

  • Antoine M. Oijen

    (University of Wollongong
    Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute)

  • Harshad Ghodke

    (University of Wollongong
    Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute)

Abstract

The Escherichia coli transcription-repair coupling factor Mfd displaces stalled RNA polymerase and delivers the stall site to the nucleotide excision repair factors UvrAB for damage detection. Whether this handoff from RNA polymerase to UvrA occurs via the Mfd-UvrA2-UvrB complex or alternate reaction intermediates in cells remains unclear. Here, we visualise Mfd in actively growing cells and determine the catalytic requirements for faithful recruitment of nucleotide excision repair proteins. We find that ATP hydrolysis by UvrA governs formation and disassembly of the Mfd-UvrA2 complex. Further, Mfd-UvrA2-UvrB complexes formed by UvrB mutants deficient in DNA loading and damage recognition are impaired in successful handoff. Our single-molecule dissection of interactions of Mfd with its partner proteins inside live cells shows that the dissociation of Mfd is tightly coupled to successful loading of UvrB, providing a mechanism via which loading of UvrB occurs in a strand-specific manner.

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  • Han Ngoc Ho & Antoine M. Oijen & Harshad Ghodke, 2020. "Single-molecule imaging reveals molecular coupling between transcription and DNA repair machinery in live cells," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-15182-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15182-3
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