Replication regulation of Vibrio cholerae chromosome II involves initiator binding to the origin both as monomer and as dimer
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Auteurs : Jyoti K. Jha ; Gaëlle Demarre ; Tatiana Venkova-Canova ; Dhruba K. ChattorajSource :
- Nucleic Acids Research [ 0305-1048 ] ; 2012.
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Jha</name></author><author><name sortKey="Demarre, Gaelle" sort="Demarre, Gaelle" uniqKey="Demarre G" first="Gaëlle" last="Demarre">Gaëlle Demarre</name></author><author><name sortKey="Venkova Canova, Tatiana" sort="Venkova Canova, Tatiana" uniqKey="Venkova Canova T" first="Tatiana" last="Venkova-Canova">Tatiana Venkova-Canova</name></author><author><name sortKey="Chattoraj, Dhruba K" sort="Chattoraj, Dhruba K" uniqKey="Chattoraj D" first="Dhruba K." last="Chattoraj">Dhruba K. Chattoraj</name></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Nucleic Acids Research</title><idno type="ISSN">0305-1048</idno><idno type="eISSN">1362-4962</idno><imprint><date when="2012">2012</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><p>The origin region of <italic>Vibrio cholerae</italic> chromosome II (chrII) resembles plasmid origins that have repeated initiator-binding sites (iterons). Iterons are essential for initiation as well as preventing over-initiation of plasmid replication. In chrII, iterons are also essential for initiation but over-initiation is prevented by sites called 39-mers. Both iterons and 39-mers are binding sites of the chrII specific initiator, RctB. Here, we have isolated RctB mutants that permit over-initiation in the presence of 39-mers. Characterization of two of the mutants showed that both are defective in 39-mer binding, which helps to explain their over-initiation phenotype. <italic>In vitro</italic>, RctB bound to 39-mers as monomers, and to iterons as both monomers and dimers. Monomer binding to iterons increased in both the mutants, suggesting that monomers are likely to be the initiators. We suggest that dimers might be competitive inhibitors of monomer binding to iterons and thus help control replication negatively. ChrII replication was found to be dependent on chaperones DnaJ and DnaK <italic>in vivo</italic>. The chaperones preferentially improved dimer binding <italic>in vitro</italic>, further suggesting the importance of dimer binding in the control of chrII replication.</p></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Jacob, F" uniqKey="Jacob F">F Jacob</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Dodson, M" uniqKey="Dodson M">M Dodson</name></author><author><name sortKey="Echols, H" uniqKey="Echols H">H Echols</name></author><author><name sortKey="Wickner, S" uniqKey="Wickner S">S Wickner</name></author><author><name sortKey="Alfano, C" uniqKey="Alfano C">C Alfano</name></author><author><name sortKey="Mensa Wilmot, K" uniqKey="Mensa Wilmot K">K Mensa-Wilmot</name></author><author><name sortKey="Gomes, B" uniqKey="Gomes B">B Gomes</name></author><author><name sortKey="Lebowitz, J" uniqKey="Lebowitz J">J LeBowitz</name></author><author><name sortKey="Roberts, Jd" uniqKey="Roberts J">JD 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Nucleic Acids Res</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Nucleic Acids Res</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">nar</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="hwp">nar</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Nucleic Acids Research</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">0305-1048</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1362-4962</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Oxford University Press</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">22447451</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">3401445</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1093/nar/gks260</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">gks260</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Genome Integrity, Repair and Replication</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Replication regulation of <italic>Vibrio cholerae</italic> chromosome II involves initiator binding to the origin both as monomer and as dimer</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jha</surname><given-names>Jyoti K.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Demarre</surname><given-names>Gaëlle</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Venkova-Canova</surname><given-names>Tatiana</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Chattoraj</surname><given-names>Dhruba K.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="gks260-COR1">*</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="gks260-AFF1">Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, NCI, 37 Convent Drive, Room 6044, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-4260, USA</aff><author-notes><corresp id="gks260-COR1">*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: <phone>+1 301 496 9194</phone>; Fax: <fax>+1 301 480 1493</fax>; Email: <email>chattoraj@nih.gov</email></corresp><fn><p>Present address: Gaëlle Demarre, CNRS – Centre de Génétique Moléculaire – UPR 2167, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.</p></fn></author-notes><pmc-comment>For NAR both ppub and collection dates generated for PMC processing 1/27/05 beck</pmc-comment>
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<volume>40</volume><issue>13</issue><fpage>6026</fpage><lpage>6038</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>16</day><month>1</month><year>2012</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>18</day><month>2</month><year>2012</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>8</day><month>3</month><year>2012</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Published by Oxford University Press 2012.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2012</copyright-year><license license-type="creative-commons" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0"><license-p><pmc-comment>CREATIVE COMMONS</pmc-comment>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>The origin region of <italic>Vibrio cholerae</italic> chromosome II (chrII) resembles plasmid origins that have repeated initiator-binding sites (iterons). Iterons are essential for initiation as well as preventing over-initiation of plasmid replication. In chrII, iterons are also essential for initiation but over-initiation is prevented by sites called 39-mers. Both iterons and 39-mers are binding sites of the chrII specific initiator, RctB. Here, we have isolated RctB mutants that permit over-initiation in the presence of 39-mers. Characterization of two of the mutants showed that both are defective in 39-mer binding, which helps to explain their over-initiation phenotype. <italic>In vitro</italic>, RctB bound to 39-mers as monomers, and to iterons as both monomers and dimers. Monomer binding to iterons increased in both the mutants, suggesting that monomers are likely to be the initiators. We suggest that dimers might be competitive inhibitors of monomer binding to iterons and thus help control replication negatively. ChrII replication was found to be dependent on chaperones DnaJ and DnaK <italic>in vivo</italic>. The chaperones preferentially improved dimer binding <italic>in vitro</italic>, further suggesting the importance of dimer binding in the control of chrII replication.</p></abstract><counts><page-count count="13"></page-count></counts></article-meta></front><body><sec><title>INTRODUCTION</title><p>Binding of proteins, called initiators, to the origin of replication is generally the event that initiates duplication of the genome (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B1">1</xref>). In bacterial origins, the presence of multiple initiator binding sites is the norm and they are used to form a specialized nucleoprotein structure that unwinds the origin, a crucial step that precedes DNA synthesis (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B2 gks260-B3 gks260-B4">2–4</xref>). In <italic>Escherichia coli</italic>, where initiator binding has been studied in most detail, great strides have been made to understand the opening process but the mechanism of unwinding still remains speculative, primarily because only partial structural information about the nucleoprotein complexes is available (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B5">5</xref>). Multi-site binding provides more regulatory opportunities to prevent untimely or over initiation of replication. Understanding the details of the initiator–origin interaction is therefore basic to understanding genome maintenance.</p><p>The replication origin of <italic>E.</italic><italic>coli</italic>, <italic>oriC</italic>, contains high and low affinity sites for binding the initiator DnaA. DnaA binds to these sites in either ATP or ADP bound forms. The high affinity sites are used to nucleate binding to low affinity sites, some of which must be occupied by DnaA-ATP (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B4">4</xref>). Over-initiation of replication is prevented primarily by limiting binding to the low affinity sites (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B6">6</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B7">7</xref>).</p><p>Multi-site initiator binding to the origin is also the norm in replication of lambdoid phages and in a large group of plasmids of <italic>E.</italic><italic>coli</italic> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B3">3</xref>). Here, the sites are direct repeats of nearly identical sequences, called iterons, which bind cognate initiators with high affinity. Limiting initiator binding is also used as one of the mechanisms to prevent over-initiation of plasmid replication, although not of lambdoid phages (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B8 gks260-B9 gks260-B10">8–10</xref>).</p><p>Multiple mechanisms are used to limit synthesis, activity and availability of initiators. In <italic>E.</italic><italic>coli</italic>, initiator synthesis is limited by transcriptional auto-repression and by sequestering the initiator promoter for a significant part of the cell cycle (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B6">6</xref>). The initiator activity is restrained by a process called the regulatory inactivation of DnaA (RIDA), which accelerates conversion of DnaA-ATP to DnaA-ADP. Finally, initiator availability is reduced by titration of the protein by hundreds of sites distributed throughout the chromosome. Iteron-carrying plasmids use basically the same strategies to limit their initiators except that promoter sequestration and ATP binding are not involved: initiators are inactivated simply by dimerization since only monomers have significant affinity for iterons (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B11">11</xref>).</p><p>Replication of plasmids and chromosomes differ in an important respect: whereas plasmids replicate throughout the cell cycle, a fundamental feature of chromosomes is that they replicate at a particular time of the cell cycle (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B12">12</xref>). <italic>Vibrio cholerae</italic> provides an opportunity to understand how the timing of replication can be changed from random to specific. Vibrios have two chromosomes (chrI and chrII) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B13">13</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B14">14</xref>). The replication origin of chrI is nearly identical to that of the <italic>E.</italic><italic>coli</italic> chromosome, and the chrII origin is similar to that of plasmids with iterons (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B15">15</xref>). ChrII, however, is a bona fide chromosome because it carries essential genes while plasmids do not, and because it replicates at a specific time of the cell cycle (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B16">16</xref>).</p><p>The control of chrII replication initiation is more involved than that of plasmid replication. While plasmid initiators bind only to iterons, the chrII initiator, RctB, binds additionally to sites that we call 39-mers (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>). The 39-mers are the key inhibitors that prevent chrII over-replication, whereas in plasmids this is done by the iterons. ChrII iterons have an internal Dam methylation site, GATC, and methylation of the adenine residues of GATC is required for RctB binding (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B18">18</xref>). The plasmid iterons lack GATC sites. The added features of chrII replication have provided some clues as to how the replication could be restricted to a specific stage of the cell cycle (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>).
<fig id="gks260-F1" position="float"><label>Figure 1.</label><caption><p>Replication of <italic>oriII</italic> plasmids in <italic>E.coli</italic>. The top diagram is a schematic representation of the region responsible for chrII replication. The region marked as <italic>oriII</italic> suffices for autonomous replication in <italic>E.coli</italic> when the initiator RctB is provided. The adjacent region, <italic>incII</italic>, negatively regulates the activity of <italic>oriII</italic>. The region has two kinds of binding site for RctB: 39-mers (black rectangles) and iterons (white and striped arrowheads represent respectively 11- and 12-mers in their relative natural orientations). The significance of iteron orientations is not known. The region has two promoters: <italic>prctA</italic> that controls RctB binding to the downstream 39-mer (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B19">19</xref>) and <italic>prctB</italic> that expresses the initiator gene (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B20">20</xref>). Two versions of <italic>oriII</italic> plasmids (low- and high-copy) were used in the presence of three RctB proteins (WT, ΔC157 and F378S) in two different hosts (<italic>dnaKJ+</italic> and Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic>). The high-copy plasmid was derived my mutating RctB binding sites of <italic>incII</italic> (crossed sites) of the low-copy plasmid. WT, ΔC157 or F378S RctB was supplied constitutively from pGD16, pGD24 or pGD28, respectively. The stars indicate cases where <italic>oriII</italic> plasmid copy number could not be measured because the plasmid failed to transform the host. Error bars here and elsewhere represent 1 SD. We note that the intensity of low-copy plasmid band in both <italic>dnaKJ+</italic> and Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic> cells with WT RctB was below the detection limit (</p> </caption><graphic xlink:href="gks260f1"></graphic></fig></p><p>To get a better understanding of the role of the two kinds of the RctB binding site in the control of chrII replication initiation, here we have isolated mutant RctBs that are more proficient in supporting chrII replication. We have characterized two of the mutants and show that both the mutants are defective in binding, <italic>in vivo</italic> and <italic>in vitro</italic>, to a replication inhibitory 39-mer site. This finding provides a reasonable explanation for how the mutants could promote replication. <italic>In vitro</italic>, RctB bound to a 39-mer as monomer and an iteron as monomer and as dimer. Dimer binding was less with both the mutants, suggesting that it might be inhibitory to replication initiation. We also show that chaperones DnaJ and DnaK are required for efficient chrII replication <italic>in vivo</italic> and they improve all RctB binding <italic>in vitro</italic>, particularly the dimer binding. This was unexpected from plasmid studies that showed that mainly monomers bind iterons and the chaperones promote monomer binding by converting dimers to monomers (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B21">21</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B22">22</xref>). These results suggest that the binding of RctB dimers to iterons is yet another mechanism to control chrII replication. The dimer binding could be a potential negative feedback mechanism to control over-initiation of replication, as will be discussed.</p></sec><sec sec-type="materials|methods"><title>MATERIALS AND METHODS</title><sec><title>Bacterial strains and plasmids</title><p><italic>Vibrio cholerae</italic> and <italic>E.</italic><italic>coli</italic> strains, and plasmids used in this study are listed in <xref ref-type="table" rid="gks260-T1">Table 1</xref>. The plasmids constructed in this study are as follows.</p><p>pAS1 was constructed by annealing complementary oligonucleotides [Supporting Information in (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B19">19</xref>)] (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Table S1</ext-link>).</p><p>pGD12 is same as pET22b (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA) except its <italic>bla</italic> gene was replaced with the <italic>aadA7</italic> gene by PCR. <italic>aadA7</italic> was amplified from pTVC11 using primers GD4 and GD7, and the backbone of pET22b without the <italic>bla</italic> gene was amplified using primers GD5 and GD9. The two PCR products were mixed and used as template for amplification with primers GD6 and GD16. The final PCR product was digested with PstI and self-ligated, generating pGD12. Next, the multi-cloning site between the NdeI and XhoI sites of pGD12 was replaced with annealed oligonucleotides GD1 and GD2, generating pGD14. pGD16 is a clone of <italic>rctB</italic> with an internal BamHI site (created by silent mutations within the open reading frame) in pGD14. The N-terminal part of <italic>rctB</italic> was amplified from pTVC14 using the primers GD30 and GD14, the C-terminal part of <italic>rctB</italic> was amplified from pTVC14 using the primers GD31 and GD13. The two PCR products were mixed and used as template with the primers GD30 and GD31. The final PCR product was digested by NdeI and XhoI, and cloned in NdeI and XhoI digested pGD14. The resulting plasmid is called pGD16. To clone the <italic>rctB</italic>ΔC157 gene, the relevant region was amplified from pGD16 using the primers GD10 and GD27, the product digested with EcoRI and KpnI and cloned in pGD14 digested with the same enzymes, generating pGD24. pGD28 and pGD43 are identical to pGD16 and pTVC16, respectively, except for the F378S change in the <italic>rctB</italic> ORF. The change was introduced by site directed mutagenesis using primers GD23 and GD24 and QuikChange II XL Kit (Agilent Technologies, La Jolla, CA, USA).</p><p>pJJ02 was constructed by cloning the PCR product using the Phusion High-Fidelity polymerase (NEB, Beverly, MA, USA), N16961 (CVC205) DNA as template, and JJ02 and BNHE1 as primers, into pTVC11, after digesting both with NheI and NotI. pJJ03 was constructed similarly except that the primers were JJ01 and JJ60, and the PCR product was cloned into pTXB1 (NEB), after digesting both with NdeI and XhoI. pJJ17 were constructed by cloning complementary oilgonucleotides in pSP5 at the EcoRI site. pJJ56 was constructed by cloning the PCR product using N16961 DNA as template and JJ115 and JJ70 primers, in pMAL-c2X vector (NEB), after digesting both with EcoRI and BamHI. pJJ58 is same as pTVC11 except for the F378S change in the <italic>rctB</italic> ORF. The change was introduced by site-directed mutagenesis as before using primers JJ36 and JJ64.</p><p>pTVC148 was constructed by cloning an oligonucleotide fragment with NotI and XhoI ends into the transcription-free region of pTVC61, after digesting the vector with the same enzymes. pTVC500 was constructed similarly to pAS1, except that the EcoRI oligonucleotide fragment (chrII nt 1049–1133), upstream of the promoter-less <italic>lacZ</italic> gene in pMLB1109, contained a 39-mer, precisely replacing the 29-mer of P<italic>rctB</italic>.</p><p>pSP5 is derived from pBR322 by destroying its EcoRI site (by end filling and ligation) and cloning two copies of the multi-cloning site cassette of pUC13 as inverted repeats at the HindIII site. The cloning sites are arranged in the order HindIII–EcoRI–HindIII.
<table-wrap id="gks260-T1" position="float"><label>Table 1.</label><caption><p>Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead align="left"><tr><th rowspan="1" colspan="1"></th><th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Genotype/relevant characteristics</th><th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Source/figure</th></tr></thead><tbody align="left"><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Strains</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> BR2846</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">K-12 <italic>recA1</italic> Δ (<italic>argF-lac</italic>)<italic>U169</italic>; Strain for cloning in pMLB1109</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B23">23</xref>)</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> BR4391</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">BR4501 Δ (<italic>srlR-recA</italic>)306::Tn<italic>10</italic> 4501 = MG1655 thi-3178::Tn<italic>10</italic>Kan</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S1</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> BR4392</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">BR3660 Δ (<italic>dnaK-J</italic>)::miniKan Δ(<italic>srlR-recA</italic>)306::Tn<italic>10</italic></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S1</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> BR8706</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">=Stbl2 Δ(<italic>lac-proAB</italic>) Δ(<italic>araFGH</italic>) Δ<italic>araEp</italic> P<sub>CP18</sub>-<italic>araE</italic>; <italic>araE</italic> under constitutive CP18 promoter</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B24">24</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figure 2</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> CVC205</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><italic>V. cholerae</italic> El Tor N16961 <italic>lacZ::res::tet::res</italic></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B20">20</xref>)</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> CVC553</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">DH5Δ<italic>lac</italic>(λ<italic>pir</italic>), where λ<italic>pir</italic> = λDKC370; strain for maintaining R6K<italic>oriγ</italic> plasmids</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>)</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> BL21(DE3)</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Expression of recombinant protein in <italic>E</italic>.<italic>coli</italic></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Stratagene</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> DH5α</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Strain for cloning</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Invitrogen</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Plasmids</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pACYC177</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">P15A<italic>ori</italic>;Ap<sup>R</sup>, Kn<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Fermentas</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pAS1</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">P<italic>rctB</italic> with the 29-mer (nt 1049–1133) in pMLB1109; pSC101<italic>ori</italic>; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B25">25</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pBEND2</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">pBR<italic>ori</italic>; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B26">26</xref>)</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pGD14</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">pET22b where <italic>bla</italic> gene was replaced by <italic>aadA7</italic> gene; MCS has a KpnI site and the BamHI site is now between EcoRI and KpnI; pBR<italic>ori</italic>; Sp<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">This study</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pGD16</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><italic>rctB</italic> (nt 1118–3115) in pGD14 vector; pBR <italic>ori</italic>; Sp<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S1</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pGD24</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><italic>rctB</italic> (nt 1118–2621) in pGD14 vector; pBR <italic>ori</italic>; Sp<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S1</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pGD25</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Site directed mutagenesis on pGD16 to create F378Y RctB; Sp<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Table S3</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pGD28</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Site directed mutagenesis on pGD16 to create F378S RctB; Sp<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>, <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S1</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pGD43</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Site directed mutagenesis on pTVC16 to create F378S RctB; Sp<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figures 3</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F7">7</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pJJ02</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><italic>rctB</italic> (nt 1118–2621) under P<sub>BAD</sub> control in pSC101<italic>ori</italic>; Sp<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figure 2</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pJJ03</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><italic>rctB</italic> (nt 1118–2621) under pT7 control in pTXB1; pBR<italic>ori</italic>; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figures 3</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F5">5</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pJJ16</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">1 × 12-mer (nt 785–823) in pSP5; pUC <italic>ori</italic>; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F4">Figure 4</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pJJ17</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">1 × 39-mer (nt 439–498) in pSP5; pUC <italic>ori</italic>; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F4">Figure 4</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pJJ56</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><italic>rctB</italic> (nt 1118–3115) under Ptac control in pMAL-c2X; pBR <italic>ori</italic>; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F5">Figure 5</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pJJ58</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">pTVC11 with the mutation creating F378S; pSC101<italic>ori</italic>; Sp<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figure 2</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pMLB1109</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Source of promoter-less <italic>lacZ</italic> gene; pSC101<italic>ori</italic>; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">M. Berman</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pSP5</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">pUC <italic>ori</italic>; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">This study</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC11</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><italic>rctB</italic> (nt 1118–3115) under P<sub>BAD</sub> control in pSC101<italic>ori</italic>; Sp<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B20">20</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figure 2</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC12</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">P<sub>BAD</sub> in pSC101<italic>ori</italic>; Sp<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B20">20</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figure 2</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC16</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><italic>rctB</italic> (nt 1118–3115) under pT7 control in pTXB1; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">This study</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC61</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">pBR<italic>ori</italic>. Digestion with EcoRV and HpaI leaves 300 bp flanks on either side of MCS; Cm<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B19">19</xref>)</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC126</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">P<italic>rctA</italic> with 2 × 11-mers up to the beginning of the <italic>rctA</italic> annotated start codon (nt 377–249) in pMLB1109; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B25">25</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figure 2</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC148</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 × 12-mers before the <italic>oriII</italic> IHF site (nt 879–952) in pTVC61; Cm<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F8">Figure 8</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC174</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">1 × 39-mer (nt 449–487) in pBEND-2; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figures 3</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F5">5</xref>; <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S5</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC195</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">1 × 12-mer (nt 565–602) in pBEND-2; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figures 3</xref>, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F5">5</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F6">6</xref>; <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figures S4</ext-link> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">S5</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC228</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">6 × 12-mers (nt 788–934) in pTVC243; Cm<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F8">Figure 8</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC234</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">P<italic>repA</italic> from P1 (nt 556–600) in pMLB1109; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figure 2</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC243</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">pTVC61 shorter by 400 bp. Digestion with EcoRV and HpaI leaves 100 bp flanks on either side of MCS; Cm<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>)</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC248</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 × 11-mer (nt 291–445) in pTVC243; Cm<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B7">7</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F7">Figure 7</xref></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC251</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><italic>oriII</italic> (nt 441–1133) in R6K<italic>oriγ</italic>; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC336</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">pTVC251 with mutated 39-mer, 12-mer, and 11-mer; Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>)/<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2</ext-link></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> pTVC500</td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1">pAS1 whose 29-mer is replaced by a 39-mer (nt 1049–1133); Ap<sup>R</sup></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figure 2</xref></td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></p></sec><sec><title>Mutagenesis of <italic>rctB</italic> and selection mutants conferring chaperone-independence</title><p>The <italic>rctB</italic> mutant library was generated by PCR, using the Genemorph II Random Mutagenesis Kit (Agilent Technologies). The mutagenesis conditions were expected to generate up to 10 mutations per kb. The whole <italic>rctB</italic> gene was amplified using primers GD30 and GD31. The PCR product was digested with EcoRI and KpnI, and cloned at the same sites of pGD16 (Sp<sup>R</sup>). The resulting library was introduced in DH5α cells by electroporation. A total of 2800 transformants were pooled, their plasmid DNA was isolated and electroporated into the <italic>E.</italic><italic>coli</italic> Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic> strain (BR4392). The transformants thus obtained were pooled, made chemically competent and further transformed with either pTVC22 (mini-<italic>oriII</italic>; Ap<sup>R</sup>) or pACYC177 (positive control; Ap<sup>R</sup>). The transformants were selected after overnight incubation at 37°C on LB agar plate containing ampicillin (100 µg/ml) and spectinomycin (40 µg/ml).</p></sec><sec><title>Mutagenesis of <italic>incII</italic> sites</title><p>The mini-<italic>oriII</italic> plasmid, pTVC251, has in addition to the minimal origin a part of the adjoining negative control locus, <italic>incII</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>). The <italic>incII</italic> region includes a 39-mer, an 11-mer and a 12-mer, which are all binding sites for the initiator RctB (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>). Using overlap extension PCR, a part of the 39-mer sequence, 5′-CGGAAGCATG-3′, was changed to 5′-GCCTTCGTAC-3′, and a part of the 11- and 12- mers, 5′-GATC-3′ to GTAG (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B27">27</xref>). These changes significantly decreased RctB binding <italic>in vitro</italic> [figure S7 of ref. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>) and figure S1C of ref. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B18">18</xref>)] and replication control activity <italic>in vivo</italic> [figure 3 of ref. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>)].</p></sec><sec><title>Protein purification</title><p>To purify WT RctB and the ΔC157 and F378S mutants, the corresponding genes were cloned into pTXB1 vector (NEB), and the derivate plasmids: pTVC16, pJJ03 and pGD43, respectively, were used to transform BL21(DE3). The transformed colonies were inoculated into 5 ml of LB medium with ampicillin (100 µg/ml) and grown overnight at 37°C. Two ml of this culture was added to 2 l of the same medium and grown to OD<sub>600</sub> of 0.6 at 37°C. The expression of the cloned protein was induced with 0.4 mM IPTG and the culture was incubated overnight at 16°C. Cells were harvested and resuspended in 20 ml of lysis buffer [25 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.0), 500 mM NaCl, 10% glycerol (v/v) and 1 mM EDTA] and lysed using French Press. The lysate was spun at 13 000 rpm for 20 min (Biofuge fresco, Heraeus, UK) and the supernatant was loaded onto a Bio-Rad Poly-Prep column (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA) with 1 ml of packed chitin beads (NEB). The column was washed with 20 volumes of the lysis buffer, and the bound proteins were reacted with 1 ml of 50 mM DTT in the same buffer at 4°C inside the column. After overnight incubation, the released protein was collected by gravity flow. The process was repeated twice with fresh DTT solution but with 1 h incubation each time. The released proteins were pooled and concentrated using Amicon Ultra (30 K) filters (Millipore Corp., Billerica, MA, USA) at 10 000 rpm for 5 min. The concentrated protein (≤500 µl) was further purified by gel filtration using a Superdex 200 column equilibrated with RctB buffer [25 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.0), 300 mM NaCl, 5% glycerol (v/v) and 1 mM EDTA] and as described in the legend to <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S3</ext-link>. The fractions containing RctB was concentrated about 5-fold using Amicon filters as above and dialyzed against a buffer [25 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.0), 300 mM NaCl, 10% glycerol (v/v) and 1 mM EDTA] and stored at −80°C at a final concentration of about 1.5 mg/ml. The protein concentration was measured by Bradford reagent (Fermentas, Glen Burnie, MD, USA), using Bovine serum albumin (BSA) as standard. No visible contaminating band was detected in 10% SDS–PAGE upon loading 6 µg of RctB and staining with SimplyBlue™ SafeStain (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA), where a band of 250 ng RctB could be easily detected. The purity of the protein was thus considered >96%.</p><p>Mal-RctB fusion protein expressed from pJJ56 was purified similarly, except that the induction was done in the presence of 0.2 mM IPTG, and cells were lysed by freeze-thaw in buffer A [20 mM Tris–HCl (pH 7.4), 200 mM NaCl, 10% glycerol and 1 mM EDTA], followed by sonication in a Digital Sonifier (Branson, Danbury, CT, USA) at 30% power level for 20 s, thrice with 2-min intervals. The lysate supernatant was loaded onto a column containing the maltose resin (NEB). The column was washed with 20 volumes of buffer A and the bound protein was eluted with 10 mM maltose in buffer A. The eluted protein was dialyzed against buffer A and stored at −80°C.</p></sec><sec><title>EMSA and handcuffing assay</title><p>Plasmids (5 µg) were digested with appropriate restriction enzymes (EcoRV + HpaI or EcoRV) followed by de-phosphorylation of the ends with SAP (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). The desired fragments were gel purified and radio-labeled with 30 units of polynucleotidyl kinase (NEB) and 50 µCi of adenosine 5′-[γ<sup>32</sup>P]triphosphate (Perkin-Elmer, Waltham, MA, USA). The labeled fragments were purified through G-50 columns (Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Indianapolis, IN, USA). EMSA and handcuffing assay were done as described (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B19">19</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B28">28</xref>).</p></sec><sec><title>β-Galactosidase assay</title><p>These were done from late log phase cultures (OD = 0.4–0.5) of BR8706 and its derivatives as described (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B29">29</xref>).</p></sec><sec><title>Plasmid copy-number measurement</title><p>Host cells for plasmids were BR4391 (<italic>dnaKJ</italic><sup>+</sup>), BR4392 (Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic>) in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>, and BR8706 (where <italic>araE</italic> is expressed constitutively from the chromosome) in <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2</ext-link>. The plasmids carrying either the wild-type <italic>rctB</italic> gene or its mutant variants were pGD16, pGD24 and pGD28 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>), and pTVC11, pJJ02 and pJJ58 (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2</ext-link>). Cells with these RctB source plasmids were further transformed with <italic>oriII</italic>-plasmids. The <italic>oriII</italic> plasmids contained a second origin (R6K <italic>ori</italic>γ), which was utilized during plasmid construction, maintenance, and isolation, using a host (CVC553) that supplied the cognate initiator (π protein). When measurement of <italic>oriII</italic> activity was desired, cells had a source of RctB instead of the π protein. In these experiments, LB plates had lower drug (50 instead of 100 µg/ml of ampicillin) to improve growth of cells with mini-<italic>oriII</italic> plasmids. After overnight growth the colonies were collected by washing the plates and plasmid copy number was determined as described (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>). Even with these modifications, the low-copy <italic>oriII</italic> plasmid band could not be detected in some cases (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2</ext-link>).</p></sec><sec><title>Refolding of RctB <italic>in vitro</italic></title><p>WT, ΔC157 and Mal-fused RctB proteins, either singly or in pair-wise combination in ≤ 2 µl, were added to 50 µl of 8 M urea to a final concentration of 2.67 µM and dialyzed against 100 ml of the RctB buffer containing 8 M urea for 2 h. For refolding, the urea concentration in the dialysis buffer was reduced stepwise by adding fresh RctB buffer. Urea concentration was first reduced to 6 M and dialysis continued for 1 h. This process was repeated with 4, 2 and 1 M urea in the dialysis buffer, except the last dialysis in 1 M urea was for 2 h. Finally, dialysis was continued for another 6 h with RctB buffer without urea. These proteins were used within a day for EMSA.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="results"><title>RESULTS</title><sec><title>Isolation of RctB mutants that cause over-replication</title><p>Characterization of initiator mutants that cause over-initiation of plasmid replication (copy-up mutants) has contributed greatly to our understanding of plasmid replication control. For low-copy iteron-carrying plasmids, such as P1 and F, which depend on chaperones for efficient replication, the majority of the mutants isolated on the basis of chaperone-independent replication, also showed the copy-up phenotype (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B30 gks260-B31 gks260-B32">30–32</xref>). Plasmids carrying the chrII origin, <italic>oriII</italic>, replicate efficiently in <italic>E.</italic><italic>coli</italic>, when the chrII-specific initiator, RctB, is provided (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B15">15</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B33">33</xref>). Here, we show that this is not the case when <italic>E.</italic><italic>coli</italic> is deleted for chaperones DnaK and DnaJ (Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic>; BR4392). When an <italic>oriII</italic> plasmid (pTVC22) was used to transform Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic> cells containing a RctB source plasmid (pGD16), no transformants were seen after overnight incubation (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Table S2</ext-link>). This opened the possibility for isolation of copy-up mutants of RctB following the chaperone-independent replication phenotype.</p><p>In order to isolate RctB mutants that might allow <italic>oriII</italic> to function in Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic> cells, a plasmid library of <italic>rctB</italic> mutants was generated by error prone PCR. The library was used <italic>en masse</italic> to transform Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic> cells. The transformants were pooled and further transformed with either an <italic>oriII</italic> plasmid (pTVC22) or a control plasmid (pACYC177). When the presence of both the resident <italic>rctB</italic> plasmid and the incoming control plasmid was selected, about 2000 colonies were obtained. When an equal amount of <italic>oriII</italic> plasmid replaced the control plasmid, the number of colonies was 32. From 10 of these colonies, the <italic>rctB</italic> plasmid was isolated and sequenced. In each case, the <italic>rctB</italic> gene showed multiple changes (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Table S3</ext-link>). Mutants were created with single changes in some of these positions by site-directed mutagenesis of the wild-type gene present in pGD16, and their ability to replicate the <italic>oriII</italic> plasmid (pTVC22) in Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic> cells was tested. Only mutations causing substitutions F233I, F378L, F378S and K502ochre conferred replication proficiency. We chose the mutants K502ochre and F378S for further study. The ochre mutant was interesting as it was replication proficient in spite of lacking 157 C-terminal amino acids. The F378S mutant was chosen because the position 378 was changed in two of the above mutants and in a third mutant (F378Y), found in a separate screen (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Table S3</ext-link>). The mutant with the serine change was chosen because it showed a stronger replication phenotype than the other two. Hereafter, the mutants will be referred to as ΔC157 and F378S.</p><p>The replication phenotype was tested quantitatively by measuring copy number of <italic>oriII</italic> plasmids. Two <italic>oriII</italic> plasmids were used. One (pTVC251) carried the minimal <italic>oriII</italic> and a part of the adjoining negative control locus, <italic>incII</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>). This plasmid was chosen because here the negative control operates near maximally and severely restricts <italic>oriII</italic> activity (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B19">19</xref>). In the other (pTVC336), the three RctB binding sites of <italic>incII</italic> were mutated, leaving only the <italic>oriII</italic> region intact (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>). In the latter plasmid, <italic>oriII</italic> activity is found to be near maximal. These will be referred to as low- and high-copy <italic>oriII</italic> plasmids, respectively.</p><p>The <italic>oriII</italic>-plasmids were electroporated into cells that already had an established plasmid supplying RctB. In Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic> cells, the mutant RctB proteins supported replication of both the <italic>oriII</italic> plasmids at copy numbers higher than those obtained with WT RctB (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>). The copy number hierarchy of the two <italic>oriII</italic> plasmids was maintained, indicating that the mutants remain capable of mediating <italic>incII</italic>-mediated negative control. The copy numbers increased further when <italic>dnaKJ</italic><sup>+</sup> cells were used, indicating that the mutants were still dependent on chaperones for full activity. The copy number of the low-copy <italic>oriII</italic> plasmid increased more in the presence of F378S compared to ΔC157, indicating that F378S is more dependent on chaperones than ΔC157. The increase in copy number was not due to changes in initiator concentration either in <italic>dnaKJ<sup>+</sup></italic> or Δ<italic>dnaKJ</italic> cells, as determined by western blotting (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S1</ext-link>).</p><p>Unexpectedly, <italic>dnaKJ<sup>+</sup></italic> cells supplying mutant RctB proteins could not be transformed with the high-copy <italic>oriII</italic> plasmid. This was not due to significant changes in RctB supply (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S1</ext-link>). We considered the possibility that too high a rate of replication of the <italic>oriII</italic> plasmid could be the reason for the failure to obtain transformants, as plasmid over-replication is known to arrest cell growth (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B33">33</xref>). Since the rate of <italic>oriII</italic> firing depends upon RctB supply (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B20">20</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B34">34</xref>), we tried to reduce the rate by reducing RctB supply. This was achieved by a lower copy number vector and limiting induction of <italic>rctB</italic> transcription (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2A</ext-link>). Under these conditions, the high-copy <italic>oriII</italic> plasmid could transform and replicate in <italic>dnaKJ<sup>+</sup></italic> cells in the presence of either of the RctB mutants. In summary, it appears that although selected as chaperone-independent, copy-up is the major phenotype of both the RctB mutants.</p></sec><sec><title>RctB mutants are altered in DNA Binding <italic>in vivo</italic></title><p>To understand the basis of the copy-up phenotype, we determined the binding of the mutant proteins to iterons and to a 39-mer, the two kinds of sites to which RctB specifically binds. We used promoter-repression as reporter of binding <italic>in vivo.</italic> In the origin region of chrII, there are two promoters, one overlapping an iteron (P-<italic>rctA</italic>) and the other overlapping a 29-mer (P-<italic>rctB</italic>) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>). The 29-mer is similar in sequence and structure to a 39-mer and binds RctB. In any event, we replaced the 29-mer with the 39-mer from the middle of <italic>incII</italic> and this did not alter the promoter activity. The promoters were fused to a promoter-less <italic>lacZ</italic> gene present in a plasmid and these reporter plasmids were introduced into <italic>E.</italic><italic>coli</italic>. Promoter activities were then determined in the presence of an inducible plasmid source of RctB (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figure 2</xref>).
<fig id="gks260-F2" position="float"><label>Figure 2.</label><caption><p>Binding of RctB to two kinds of site <italic>in vivo</italic>. The binding was tested by measuring activity of promoters which are naturally repressed by RctB. RctB was supplied from an arabinose-inducible promoter, present in a pSC101-derived plasmid. Plasmids supplying WT, ΔC157 and F378S RctB proteins were pTVC11, pJJ02 and pJJ58, respectively. The empty vector carrying the inducible promoter but no <italic>rctB</italic> (pTVC12) was used as a negative control (the column marked ‘None’). Three target promoters were used: P<italic>repA</italic> carrying two iterons of plasmid P1 (unrelated to chrII iterons) as negative control (<bold>A</bold>), P<italic>rctA</italic> for iteron binding, as it has in its vicinity two 11-mer iterons (<bold>B</bold>), and P<italic>rctB</italic> for 39-mer binding, as it contains naturally a 29-mer, a site similar to the 39-mer present in the middle of <italic>incII</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>) (<bold>C</bold>). The results were similar when the 29-mer was exchanged with the 39-mer (data not shown). The promoters were fused to a promoter-less <italic>lacZ</italic> gene (transcriptional fusions; cartoons to the right of the bar diagrams) of a pBR322-derived plasmid, pMLB1109, which resulted in plasmids pTVC234, pTVC126 and pTVC500, respectively. These plasmids were introduced into <italic>E.coli</italic> (BR8706) harboring the <italic>rctB</italic>-plasmids for measuring <italic>lacZ</italic> activity (in Miller units). The white bars represent activity without induction of <italic>rctB,</italic> and the gray bars, after induction with 0.2% arabinose. RctB synthesis was confirmed by western blotting (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2B</ext-link>). n.s. = not significantly different by <italic>t</italic>-test with α = 0.01; when the <italic>t-</italic>test indicates significant difference between the measures, the <italic>P</italic>-values are shown.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gks260f2"></graphic></fig></p><p>Assuming promoter repression to be diagnostic of RctB binding, the results indicate that compared to the WT protein, ΔC157 is defective in 39-mer binding but is improved in iteron binding. Since 39-mer binding inhibits initiation, and iteron binding promotes initiation, the reduced 39-mer binding and increased iteron binding provides a ready explanation for the copy-up phenotype. F378S behavior was similar to that of ΔC157 in that it also bound with lower affinity to a 39-mer and greater affinity to iterons compared to WT RctB but ΔC157 exhibited a greater degree of discrimination. These results and the results of copy-number measurements (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>) suggest that the copy-up phenotype of the two mutants have common but not identical bases.</p></sec><sec><title>RctB mutants are altered in DNA binding <italic>in vitro</italic></title><p>The DNA fragment used in these studies carried either a single 12-mer or a single 39-mer. WT RctB bound to both kinds of site at similar protein concentrations but maximal binding was significantly more to the 39-mer compared to the iteron (∼90% versus ∼20%; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figure 3</xref>). The opposite was the case for the ΔC157 mutant: it bound negligibly to the 39-mer but efficiently to the iteron (∼2% versus ∼80%). The F378S binding pattern was different but it bound the 39-mer less avidly than the WT protein (∼45% versus ∼90%). The 39-mer binding defect seen <italic>in vivo</italic> is thus supported <italic>in vitro</italic> for both the mutants. However, while both the mutants were improved in iteron binding <italic>in vivo</italic>, this was obvious only for the ΔC157 mutant <italic>in vitro</italic>. The two mutants thus appear to be different in their binding characteristics <italic>in vitro</italic> as well.
<fig id="gks260-F3" position="float"><label>Figure 3.</label><caption><p>EMSA of RctB binding to fragments carrying a 12- or a 39-mer. EMSA was performed with end-labeled (<sup>32</sup>P) DNA fragments carrying a single copy of either a 12-mer or a 39-mer with 55 bp of vector sequences at both flanks (obtained from plasmids pTVC195 or pTVC174, respectively). RctB was either WT or mutants ΔC157 and F378S, and used in the concentration range of 0.67–33 nM. The binding was analyzed using a 5% polyacrlyamide gel. Arrows show two retarded bands of the 12-mer fragment. The binding profiles are shown at the bottom. The data points were fitted to equation <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="gks260i1.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, <italic>n</italic><sub>H</sub> = Hill slope and <italic>B</italic><sub>max</sub> = maximum %bound. The values of <italic>n</italic><sub>H</sub> for the WT, ΔC157 and F378S were 1.8, 1.2 and 1.4 for the 12-mer, and 1.7, 1 and 5 for the 39-mer.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gks260f3"></graphic></fig></p><p>Binding to the iteron <italic>in vitro</italic> appeared to be complex: two retarded bands were reproducibly seen both for the WT and F378S proteins, although the fragment used had a single iteron. The faster migrating band was more intense in the case of the F378S mutant protein, opposite to the case of the WT protein. The ΔC157 mutant mainly showed one retarded band that corresponded to the faster migrating band with the WT protein. The finding that both the copy-up mutants are enriched in the faster migrating band suggests that the form of the protein present in this band is more proficient in promoting replication initiation.</p></sec><sec><title>RctB binds to an iteron both as monomer and dimer, and to a 39-mer only as monomer</title><p>The molecular weight (Mw) of RctB monomer is 75 kDa, calculated from its amino acid sequence. The Mw appeared to be ∼160 kDa in gel filtration studies, indicating that the protein can dimerize, like the initiators of iteron-carrying plasmids (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S3</ext-link>). Plasmid initiators, however, generally bind to iterons as monomers. Dimers can also bind but only to one-half of an iteron sequence, and this half-site binding is considerably weaker (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B28">28</xref>). Dimers do bind efficiently when the half-iteron site is naturally present as an inverted repeat (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B35">35</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B36">36</xref>). The chrII iterons differ from plasmid iterons in having an internal dyad-symmetric element, TGATCA, and these bases are the only bases of the iterons that are fully conserved. The element is however asymmetrically placed within the iteron. These features prompted the possibility that RctB might bind to single iterons either as monomer or as dimer, which could explain the two retarded bands seen by EMSA (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figure 3</xref>).</p><p>We used Ferguson analysis to estimate the Mw of the two retarded bands of the iteron-carrying fragment and the single retarded band of the 39-mer carrying fragment. In this analysis, the Mw of a protein–DNA complex is determined by comparing its electrophoretic mobility with that of known protein standards in a series of native gels of increasing concentrations. It is assumed that mobility of each species is influenced solely by its size, shape, and net charge. Initially, migration of each standard along with the migration of DNA and DNA–protein complexes is plotted against gel concentrations (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F4">Figure 4</xref>A) and, from the slope, the retardation coefficient (<italic>K<sub>r</sub></italic>) is determined. The Mw of unknown species is determined from their <italic>K<sub>r</sub></italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F4">Figure 4</xref>C) using the plot of the standards (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F4">Figure 4</xref>B). We used a 60 bp EcoRI fragment carrying either a centrally located iteron (from pJJ16) or a 39-mer (from pJJ17). Assuming the Mw of a single base pair to be 660 kDa, the Mw of the DNA fragment alone is calculated to be 40 kDa. This value compares well with 43.3 ± 1.3 kDa, deduced from <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F4">Figure 4</xref>B. Accounting for the contribution of DNA, the Mw of the protein bound to 39-mer corresponded to 73 ± 2 kDa, and the protein bound to iteron corresponded to 81 ± 2 kDa and 142 ± 4 kDa, for the lower and the upper retarded bands, respectively. Since the calculated Mw of RctB monomer is 75 kDa, these results are consistent with RctB binding to 39-mer as monomer and to iteron as monomer and as dimer.
<fig id="gks260-F4" position="float"><label>Figure 4.</label><caption><p>Molecular weight of DNA–protein complexes by Ferguson gel analysis. EMSA was performed using a 60 bp DNA fragment that included either a centrally located 12-mer or a 39-mer. The fragments were derived from pJJ16 or pJJ17, respectively. (<bold>A</bold>) Ferguson plots of gel concentration versus log mobility of protein standards; the lines are best fits from linear regression. Protein standards (Sigma) used were carbonic anhydrase (29 kDa), chicken egg albumin (45 kDa), BSA (monomer, 66 kDa), BSA (dimer, 132 kDa), and β-amylase (200 kDa). For clarity, Ferguson plots of free DNA and DNA–protein complexes (a–d) are shown separately in panel (<bold>C)</bold>. (<bold>B</bold>) A plot of retardation coefficient (−<italic>K</italic><sub>r</sub>) versus molecular weight (Mw) of protein standards. <italic>K</italic><sub>r</sub> values are the slopes of the regression lines of the Ferguson plots (A). The data were fit by linear regression analysis. (<bold>D</bold>) The Mw of free DNA and DNA–protein complexes. These values were determined from the plot in panel (B), using the <italic>K</italic><sub>r</sub> values from panel (C). Mw of proteins present in DNA–protein complexes (fifth column) were obtained by subtracting the Mw of free DNA from the Mw of the complexes (fourth column). Theoretical Mws (sixth column) were deduced from sequences of free DNA or RctB monomer. The error values are one standard deviation of the mean, deduced from two independent experiments.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gks260f4"></graphic></fig></p></sec><sec><title>RctB heterodimers bind iterons</title><p>To confirm dimer binding to iterons independently, we constructed derivates of RctB of different Mws to form heterodimers. The heterodimers, being of Mw intermediate to those of the two parental homodimers, are expected to migrate in between the two homodimers, when analyzed by EMSA. The appearance of such uniquely migrating species can be taken in support of dimer binding. Three proteins were used: WT RctB, a truncated version, the ΔC157 mutant, and a larger protein, a Mal-RctB fusion. These three proteins were unfolded and refolded separately, and in pair-wise combinations: WT + ΔC157, WT + Mal-RctB, and ΔC157 + Mal-RctB (further details are in the ‘Materials and Methods’ section). The binding patterns of refolded WT, ΔC157, and Mal-RctB proteins were similar to those obtained with their native counterparts (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figure 3</xref>; data not shown for Mal-RctB). When refolded protein combinations were used, two new bands were observed in the case of WT + Mal-RctB, although one band was expected (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F5">Figure 5</xref>A). The positions of the new bands were intermediate between the putative dimer binding bands of the two starting proteins. The observation that no new retarded bands were seen when ΔC157 was combined with the other two proteins suggests that ΔC157 is inefficient either in dimer formation (at the assay concentration) or in binding to DNA as dimer. Together with the results of <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figure 3</xref>, the suggestion is that the single retarded band seen with ΔC157 represents monomer binding, and the two retarded bands seen with full length RctB represent monomer and dimer binding.
<fig id="gks260-F5" position="float"><label>Figure 5.</label><caption><p>EMSA of RctB hetero-dimer binding to a 12-mer. Proteins used are described at the top. They were unfolded and refolded either individually or by pair-wise combinations before use in EMSA. Binding of proteins to a 12-mer carrying fragment is shown in panel (<bold>A)</bold> and to a 39-mer carrying fragment (<bold>B)</bold>. The fragments of 150 bp were obtained from pTVC195 and pTVC174, respectively. Retarded bands are bracketed on the left of relevant lanes. Note the new retarded species (bracket on the right) only in the WT + Mal-RctB lane (A). The refolded proteins when tested for binding to the 39-mer, did not show any new retarded species (B).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gks260f5"></graphic></fig></p><p>Evidence for heterodimer binding was also obtained by coexpressing WT RctB and RctB fused in frame to chitin-binding domain (RctB-CBD). In these experiments, the two proteins were over-produced in the same cell and crude extracts were mixed with the 12-mer fragment and the binding determined by EMSA (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S4</ext-link>).</p><p>The refolded proteins when tested for binding to the 39-mer, did not show any new retarded species (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F5">Figure 5</xref>B). This result is expected if RctB binds to 39-mer as monomer, as was also the suggestion from the results of <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figure 3</xref>.</p></sec><sec><title>Chaperones promote binding of RctB both as monomer and as dimer</title><p>The chaperones DnaJ and DnaK were routinely used in studies by EMSA described above. When the chaperones were omitted, the binding was less in all cases, indicating that the chaperones promote RctB binding both to iterons and to the 39-mer; both the mutant proteins were similar to the WT RctB in this respect (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S5</ext-link>). These results are consistent with the results of copy number measurements that indicated that the replication of the mutants has remained largely chaperone dependent (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>).</p><p>In the case of iteron-carrying plasmids, the chaperones remodel the initiator protomers in a way that disfavors dimerization (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B37">37</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B38">38</xref>). The increase of monomeric species leads to increased iteron binding. Since RctB seems to bind iterons both as monomer and dimer, we expected that the chaperones would preferentially increase monomer binding. However, both monomer and dimer binding increased, and the results were same whether the protein was WT RctB or the F378S mutant (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F6">Figure 6</xref>). Although the structural basis of chaperone action on RctB remains to be studied, it appears that the chaperones refold the RctB protomer in a way that they remain competent in dimerization.
<fig id="gks260-F6" position="float"><label>Figure 6.</label><caption><p>EMSA showing the effect of chaperones on RctB binding to 12-mer. RctB was either WT or the F378S mutant. Binding reactions were performed in two sets identically except that from one set the chaperones DnaJ and DnaK were omitted. DNA shifted by RctB monomer is marked by gray arrow and by RctB dimer by black arrow. Other details are same as in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figure 3</xref>.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gks260f6"></graphic></fig></p></sec><sec><title>Handcuffing by RctB mutants</title><p>One of the properties of plasmid initiators is that they can pair iterons by forming protein bridges, a process called handcuffing. Participation of the origin iterons in handcuffing either <italic>in cis</italic> or <italic>in trans</italic>, is believed to inhibit replication by causing steric hindrance to origin function. Copy-up mutants of plasmid initiators have often been found to be defective in handcuffing, indicating the importance of the mechanism in lowering of plasmid copy number (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B11">11</xref>). Since RctB can also handcuff iterons (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>), reduction of handcuffing could be a mechanism underlying the copy-up phenotype of the RctB mutants. To test this hypothesis, the handcuffing efficiency of the mutants was determined using a fragment with three iterons (the 11-mers of <italic>incII</italic>). (Fragments with lower number of iterons handcuff poorly and the 39-mer by itself does not handcuff (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>).) When normalized for binding, ΔC157 was severely defective in handcuffing, consistent with its copy-up phenotype. In contrast, F378S was at least as efficient as the WT RctB in handcuffing, suggesting that handcuffing is unlikely to be reason for its copy-up phenotype (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F7">Figure 7</xref>).
<fig id="gks260-F7" position="float"><label>Figure 7.</label><caption><p>Handcuffing of three 11-mer carrying fragments by RctB. A fragment with three tandem 11-mers of <italic>incII</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>) was obtained from pTVC248 and reacted with varying RctB concentrations. The proteins tested were WT, ΔC157 and F378S. One half of the binding mixture was loaded onto 5% polyacrylamide gel to monitor bound DNA by EMSA (bracket B) (top panel). The position of the free probe is marked shown by ‘F’. The other half of the binding mixture was treated with ligase, and after deproteinization, loaded onto 1.2% agarose gel to monitor ladder (L) and monomer circle (C) formation (middle panel). The bottom panel represents graphically the efficiency of ladder formation for the WT and the two mutants. Percentage of ladder for each lane was calculated by taking intensity of the area (marked L) containing all bands above free (F) DNA and monomer circles (C), after subtracting the intensity of the similar area in lane 1 (without RctB) and further dividing by the total intensity of bands.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gks260f7"></graphic></fig></p></sec><sec><title>RctB binding to iterons is cooperative</title><p>In our experimental condition, WT RctB bound to single iterons poorly, and majority of the probe remained unbound (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">Figures 3</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F6">6</xref>). In contrast, when we used multiple iterons, it was possible to achieve saturation of binding (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F8">Figure 8</xref>A, lane 3). This indicates binding to one site increases the affinity of binding to a neighboring site <italic>in cis</italic> (positive cooperativity). In contrast to the WT protein, ΔC157 was found to be significantly defective in cooperative binding (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F8">Figure 8</xref>A; lanes 3 versus 6). Although ΔC157 bound to single iterons more efficiently than WT RctB, it required more protein than the WT to saturate binding to multiple sites, which is also indicative of a defect in cooperative binding (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F8">Figure 8</xref>A, lanes 3 versus 7). The degree of cooperativity was quantified by estimating cooperativity factor, τ (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B39">39</xref>). A τ value of greater than 1.4 indicates positive cooperativity, and only WT RctB exceeded this value (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F8">Figure 8</xref>B).
<fig id="gks260-F8" position="float"><label>Figure 8.</label><caption><p>Cooperative binding of RctB to the six 12-mers of <italic>oriII</italic>. (<bold>A</bold>) The DNA fragment (346 bp) was obtained from pTVC228, and was used at 20 pM. RctB concentrations are shown in the top of the auto-radiograms. The cooperativity factor (τ) was determined following the equation (4 × unbound species) (fully bound species)/(intermediate species)<sup>2</sup>, and the τ values were plotted in panel (<bold>B</bold>). All three lanes were used for each protein, and the histograms represent mean values from three gels. (<bold>C</bold>) Cooperativity was also determined from the Hill plot. In these experiments, binding was performed with a fragment containing two 12-mer sites derived from pTVC148. The Hill coefficient (<italic>n</italic><sub>H</sub>) was determined from the slope of the plot of Log [Free DNA/bound DNA] and Log (RctB concentration). RctB concentrations ranged from 3.3 nM to 17 nM (data not shown).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gks260f8"></graphic></fig></p><p>Cooperativity was also quantified by determining the Hill coefficient, <italic>n</italic><sub>H</sub>. The value of <italic>n</italic><sub>H</sub> > 1 indicates positive cooperativity. For ease of quantification, a fragment with only two iterons was used. The <italic>n</italic><sub>H</sub> value for WT RctB was found to ∼2, confirming that the binding is positively cooperative (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F8">Figure 8</xref>C). The <italic>n</italic><sub>H</sub> value for ΔC157 was ∼1, indicating that the binding is not cooperative, and for F378S was ∼1.4, indicating that the mutant has lost some of the cooperative binding property. Loss of positive cooperativity thus might be another reason for the copy-up phenotype of the mutants.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="discussion"><title>DISCUSSION</title><p>In bacteria, the control of chromosomal replication is mediated by DnaA. In the three most studied cases, <italic>E.</italic><italic>coli</italic>, <italic>Bacillus subtilis</italic> and <italic>Caulobacter crescentus</italic>, the control mechanisms seem to differ significantly among the three, although they are all centered on DnaA (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B6">6</xref>). The chrII of <italic>V. choleare</italic> provides a fresh perspective on chromosomal replication control, as it is controlled by the chrII-specific initiator RctB. Nonetheless, here also initiator–origin interaction plays a central role in initiation of DNA replication, as it does in other organisms (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B40">40</xref>). In this study, we have shown that RctB binds specifically to iterons in two forms, as monomer and dimer, the latter binding being more efficient. Monomer binding, in contrast, increases in mutant initiators that promote replication. This implies that dimer binding could be a previously unrecognized negative regulatory mechanism for chrII replication initiation. In the iteron-family of plasmids, whose replication region has many similarities to that of chrII, the initiators bind to iterons as monomer, although there is an isolated evidence of dimer binding as well (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B36">36</xref>). The avid dimer binding in the case of chrII suggests that it could be a significant regulatory mechanism, which is not generally the case with iteron-carrying plasmids.</p><p>Dimers of plasmid initiators, although they do not bind iterons, they do contribute to the control of replication in a major way. Dimerization reduces monomer concentration and therefore initiator binding, since monomers only bind iterons (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B35">35</xref>). In fact, in many members of the iteron family of plasmids, chaperones such as DnaJ and DanK, are required to dissociate dimers so that enough monomers are available for initiation (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B21">21</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B22">22</xref>). The chaperones remodel the initiators in a way that reduces dimerization (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B37">37</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B38">38</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B41">41</xref>). We also show here that plasmids driven by the chrII origin (<italic>oriII</italic>) depend on chaperones for optimal replication but the chaperones improve both monomer and dimer binding <italic>in vitro</italic>, the latter more efficiently (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F6">Figure 6</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S5</ext-link>), the opposite of what was expected from plasmid studies (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B28">28</xref>). This suggests that reducing dimerization is not the role of chaperones in chrII replication. Our results lead instead to the following model of specific DNA-binding activity of RctB:
<disp-formula><graphic xlink:href="gks260um1"></graphic></disp-formula></p><p>The model also helps to explain the apparent contradictory findings that the chaperones increase dimer binding, a putative inhibitory mechanism, and yet promote replication. At low RctB concentration, the chaperone-mediated increase of active monomers might promote replication since RctB is limiting for replication (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B20">20</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B34">34</xref>). However, if RctB concentration overshoots, the consequent preferential increase in dimer concentration might prevent over-replication. Dimer binding thus can be viewed as a negative feedback mechanism for initiation control. It should be noted that our results do not rule out the possibility that chaperones make only active monomers, as in plasmids, and the monomers dimerize upon interacting with DNA (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B42">42</xref>). In any event, the negative feedback would apply equally well.</p><p>We have shown recently that prevention of over-replication of chrII is mediated not by iterons alone, as in plasmids, but primarily by a second kind of RctB binding site, the 39-mers (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>). This was inferred by mutating those binding sites. Here, we have come to the same conclusion by mutating RctB. Both RctB mutants characterized here that allowed over-replication of plasmids driven by <italic>oriII</italic>, are defective in 39-mer binding. These studies further establish the importance of 39-mer in controlling chrII replication.</p><p>Although the mutant initiators confer over-replication, they are still control proficient. The copy number of <italic>oriII</italic> plasmids decreased when RctB binding sites of <italic>incII</italic> were added, irrespective of whether the initiator was WT or mutant (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref>). The added <italic>incII</italic> region included two iterons and a 39-mer. Relative to the WT protein, both the mutants exhibit decreased affinity for the 39-mer but increased affinity for the iterons (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figure 2</xref>). The increased binding apparently allowed the <italic>incII</italic> iterons to play a more prominent inhibitory role. This proposal is based on our earlier finding that the iterons of <italic>incII</italic> become more potent inhibitors when the 39-mers are mutated (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B17">17</xref>).</p><p>Another potential regulatory mechanism revealed in this study is the involvement of cooperative binding of the initiator to the iterons of the origin. It is also intriguing that both the mutants are reduced in cooperative binding. Most of the plasmid initiators appear to bind to iterons in a non-cooperative manner, although under some restricted conditions exceptions have been reported (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B43">43</xref>). The significance of cooperative binding in the control of replication remains to be studied.</p><p>The copy-up phenotype of the two mutants was conferred by two very different changes: one is a deletion of C-terminal 157 amino acids and the other a substitution of a single amino acid far from the C-terminal. In a recent study, selection of regulatory mutants by a different strategy also revealed, among others, these two types of mutant (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="gks260-B44">44</xref>). Of the two mutants, ΔC157 is expected to confer a higher copy number: it is more defective in 39-mer binding and more proficient in iteron binding as monomer (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F2">Figures 2</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F3">3</xref>). ΔC157 is also more defective in handcuffing, which is believed to be the major mechanism that inhibits plasmid replication. However, F378S seems to be a better initiator <italic>in vivo</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="gks260-F1">Figure 1</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Figure S2A</ext-link>). It apparently binds to iteron and 39-mer in a sigmoidal fashion, the significance of which remains to be understood. Whether the reduced 39-mer binding fully accounts for the proficiency of the F378S mutant in promoting chrII replication remains to be determined.</p></sec><sec><title>SUPPLEMENTARY DATA</title><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gks260/DC1">Supplementary Data</ext-link> are available at NAR Online: Supplementary Tables 1–3, Supplementary Figures 1–5 and Supplementary Reference [45].</p></sec><sec><title>FUNDING</title><p>Funding for open access charge: <funding-source>Intramural Research Program</funding-source>; <funding-source>Center for Cancer Research</funding-source>; <funding-source>National Cancer Institute</funding-source>; <funding-source>National Institutes of Health</funding-source>.</p><p><italic>Conflict of interest statement</italic>. None declared.</p></sec><sec sec-type="supplementary-material"><title>Supplementary Material</title><supplementary-material id="PMC_1" content-type="local-data"><caption><title>Supplementary Data</title></caption><media mimetype="text" mime-subtype="html" xlink:href="supp_40_13_6026__index.html"></media><media xlink:role="associated-file" mimetype="application" mime-subtype="pdf" xlink:href="supp_gks260_nar-00111-m-2012-File010.pdf"></media></supplementary-material></sec></body><back><ack><title>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS</title><p>We are grateful to Michael Yarmolinsky for thoughtful comments, Paul Morrison for help with statistical analysis and Subrata Pal for supplying pSP5.</p></ack><ref-list><title>REFERENCES</title><ref id="gks260-B1"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Jacob</surname><given-names>F</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>The replicon: thirty years later</article-title><source>Cold Spring Harb. 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