Two components of DNA replication-dependent LexA cleavage.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Kamila K Myka, Kenneth J Marians

Abstract

Induction of the SOS response, a cellular system triggered by DNA damage in bacteria, depends on DNA replication for the generation of the SOS signal, ssDNA. RecA binds to ssDNA, forming filaments that stimulate proteolytic cleavage of the LexA transcriptional repressor, allowing expression of > 40 gene products involved in DNA repair and cell cycle regulation. Here, using a DNA replication system reconstituted in vitro in tandem with a LexA cleavage assay, we studied LexA cleavage during DNA replication of both undamaged and base-damaged templates. Only a ssDNA-RecA filament supported LexA cleavage. Surprisingly, replication of an undamaged template supported levels of LexA cleavage like that induced by a template carrying two site-specific cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers. We found that two processes generate ssDNA that could support LexA cleavage. 1) During unperturbed replication, single-stranded regions formed because of stochastic uncoupling of the leading-strand DNA polymerase from the replication fork DNA helicase, and 2) on the damaged template, nascent leading-strand gaps were generated by replisome lesion skipping. The two pathways differed in that RecF stimulated LexA cleavage during replication of the damaged template...Continue Reading

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