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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 50, Issue 5, Pages 2621-2634Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab1027
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- National Institutes of Health [R35GM126907]
- National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant [NCI P30CA008748]
- NIH
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The bacterial condensin MukB and the cellular chromosomal decatenase, topoisomerase IV interact and stimulate each other's activity in DNA condensation, while in stoichiometric complexes of the two enzymes they inhibit each other and provide a stable scaffold for chromosomal DNA condensation.
The bacterial condensin MukB and the cellular chromosomal decatenase, topoisomerase IV interact and this interaction is required for proper condensation and topological ordering of the chromosome. Here, we show that Topo IV stimulates MukB DNA condensation by stabilizing loops in DNA: MukB alone can condense nicked plasmid DNA into a protein-DNA complex that has greater electrophoretic mobility than that of the DNA alone, but both MukB and Topo IV are required for a similar condensation of a linear DNA representing long stretches of the chromosome. Remarkably, we show that rather than MukB stimulating the decatenase activity of Topo IV, as has been argued previously, in stoichiometric complexes of the two enzymes each inhibits the activity of the other: the ParC subunit of Topo IV inhibits the MukF-stimulated ATPase activity of MukB and MukB inhibits both DNA crossover trapping and DNA cleavage by Topo IV. These observations suggest that when in complex on the DNA, Topo IV inhibits the motor function of MukB and the two proteins provide a stable scaffold for chromosomal DNA condensation.
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