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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 22, Pages 4823-4829Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf611
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Bloom's syndrome (BS) is a disorder associated with chromosomal instability and a predisposition to the development of cancer. The BS gene product, BLM, is a DNA helicase of the RecQ family that forms a complex in vitro and in vivo with topoisomerase IIIalpha. Here, we show that BLM stimulates the ability of topoisomerase IIIalpha to relax negatively supercoiled DNA. Moreover, DNA binding analyses indicate that BLM recruits topoisomerase IIIalpha to its DNA substrate. Consistent with this, a mutant form of BLM that retains helicase activity, but is unable to bind topoisomerase IIIalpha, fails to stimulate topoisomerase activity. These results indicate that a physical association between BLM and topoisomerase IIIalpha is a prerequisite for their functional biochemical interaction.
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