Functional fine-tuning between bacterial DNA recombination initiation and quality control systems

PloS One
Veronika FerencziováMihály Kovács

Abstract

Homologous recombination (HR) is crucial for the error-free repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) and the restart of stalled replication. However, imprecise HR can lead to genome instability, highlighting the importance of HR quality control. After DSB formation, HR proceeds via DNA end resection and recombinase loading, whereas helicase-catalyzed disruption of a subset of subsequently formed DNA invasions is thought to be essential for maintaining HR accuracy via inhibiting illegitimate (non-allelic) recombination. Here we show that in vitro characterized mechanistic aberrations of E. coli RecBCD (resection and recombinase loading) RecQ (multifunctional DNA-restructuring helicase) mutant enzyme variants, on one hand, cumulatively deteriorate cell survival under certain conditions of genomic stress. On the other hand, we find that RecBCD and RecQ defects functionally compensate each other in terms of HR accuracy. The abnormally long resection and unproductive recombinase loading activities of a mutant RecBCD complex (harboring the D1080A substitution in RecB) cause enhanced illegitimate recombination. However, this compromised HR-accuracy phenotype is suppressed in double mutant strains harboring mutant RecQ variants with a...Continue Reading

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