PriA-directed Assembly of a Primosome on D Loop DNA

Joing Liu, Kenneth J. Marians
1999 Journal of Biological Chemistry  
Escherichia coli strains carrying null mutations in priA are chronically induced for the SOS response and are defective in homologous recombination, repair of UV damaged DNA, double-strand break repair, and both induced and constitutive stable DNA replication. This led to the proposal that PriA directed replication fork assembly at D loops formed by the homologous recombination machinery. The demonstration that PriA specifically recognized and bound D loop DNA supported this hypothesis. Using
more » ... A footprinting as an assay, we show here that PriA also directs the assembly of a X174-type primosome on D loop DNA. The ability to load a complete primosome on D loop DNA is a step necessary for replication fork assembly.
doi:10.1074/jbc.274.35.25033 pmid:10455182 fatcat:fv63pzplwzbn5njge2imnnsljq