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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 18, Pages 1427-1431Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00444-4
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA 30490] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 35929] Funding Source: Medline
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The initiation of DNA replication in eukaryotic cells at the onset of S phase requires the origin recognition complex (ORC) [1]. This six-subunit complex, first isolated in Saccharomyces cerevisiae [2], is evolutionarily conserved [1]. ORC participates in the formation of the prereplicative complex [3], which is necessary to establish replication competence. The ORC-DNA interaction is well established for autonomously replicating sequence (ARS) elements in yeast in which the ARS consensus sequence [4] (ACS) constitutes part of the ORC binding site [2, 5]. Little is known about the ORC-DNA interaction in metazoa. For the Drosophila chorion locus, it has been suggested that ORC binding is dispersed [6]. We have analyzed the amplification origin (ori) II/9A of the fly, Sciara coprophila. We identified a distinct 80-base pair (bp) ORC binding site and mapped the replication start site located adjacent to it. The binding of ORC to this 80-bp core region is ATP dependent and is necessary to establish further interaction with an additional 65-bp of DNA. This is the first time that both the ORC binding site and the replication start site have been identified in a metazoan amplification origin. Thus, our findings extend the paradigm from yeast ARS1 to multicellular eukaryotes, implicating ORC as a determinant of the position of replication initiation.
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