National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS)
R35GM152032
米国
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ジャーナル: bioRxiv / 年: 2025 タイトル: Human primosome requires replication protein A when copying DNA with inverted repeats. 著者: Andrey Baranovskiy / Lucia Morstadt / Eduardo E Romero / Nigar Babayeva / Tahir H Tahirov 要旨: The human primosome, a four-subunit complex of primase and DNA polymerase alpha (Polα), initiates DNA synthesis on both chromosome strands by generating chimeric RNA-DNA primers for loading DNA ...The human primosome, a four-subunit complex of primase and DNA polymerase alpha (Polα), initiates DNA synthesis on both chromosome strands by generating chimeric RNA-DNA primers for loading DNA polymerases delta and epsilon (Polε). Replication protein A (RPA) tightly binds to single-stranded DNA strands, protecting them from nucleolytic digestion and unauthorized transactions. We report here that RPA plays a critical role for the human primosome during DNA synthesis across inverted repeats prone to hairpin formation. On other alternatively structured DNA, forming a G-quadruplex, RPA does not assist primosome. A stimulatory effect of RPA on DNA synthesis across hairpins was also observed for the catalytic domain of Polα but not of Polε. The winged helix-turn-helix domain of RPA is essential for an efficient hairpin bypass and increases RPA-Polα cooperativity on the primed DNA template. Cryo-EM studies revealed that this domain is mainly responsible for the interaction between RPA and Polα. The flexible mode of RPA-Polα interaction during DNA synthesis implies the mechanism of template handover between them when the hairpin formation should be avoided. This work provides insight into a cooperative action of RPA and primosome on DNA, which is critical for DNA synthesis across inverted repeats.