The RuvAB Branch Migration Translocase and RecU Holliday Junction Resolvase Are Required for Double-Stranded DNA Break Repair in Bacillus subtilis
- 1 November 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 171 (3), 873-883
- https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.105.045906
Abstract
In models of Escherichia coli recombination and DNA repair, the RuvABC complex directs the branch migration and resolution of Holliday junction DNA. To probe the validity of the E. coli paradigm, we examined the impact of mutations in ΔruvAB and ΔrecU (a ruvC functional analog) on DNA repair. Under standard transformation conditions we failed to construct ΔruvAB ΔrecG, ΔrecU ΔruvAB, ΔrecU ΔrecG, or ΔrecU ΔrecJ strains. However, ΔruvAB could be combined with addAB (recBCD), recF, recH, ΔrecS, ΔrecQ, and ΔrecJ mutations. The ΔruvAB and ΔrecU mutations rendered cells extremely sensitive to DNA-damaging agents, although less sensitive than a ΔrecA strain. When damaged cells were analyzed, we found that RecU was recruited to defined double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) and colocalized with RecN. RecU localized to these centers at a later time point during DSB repair, and formation was dependent on RuvAB. In addition, expression of RecU in an E. coli ruvC mutant restored full resistance to UV light only when the ruvAB genes were present. The results demonstrate that, as with E. coli RuvABC, RuvAB targets RecU to recombination intermediates and that all three proteins are required for repair of DSBs arising from lesions in chromosomal DNA.Keywords
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