The interaction between DNA polymerases and sliding clamp proteins confers processivity in DNA synthesis. This interaction is critical for most DNA replication machines from viruses and prokaryotes to higher eukaryotes. T he replication of DNA in eubacteria involves many proteins organized into a complex multifunctional machine termed the replisome. A central enzyme is the multisubunit DNA polymerase III holoenzyme. In Escherichia coli, and probably in most other eubacteria, the DnaE ortholog (␣ subunit) is in the core of the replicative polymerase, whereas in many Grampositive organisms a related enzyme, PolC, is proposed to have this function (1). The processivity of the polymerase is conferred by the direct interaction of the  subunit (clamp protein) of DNA polymerase III (2, 3), with the DnaE (and presumably PolC) subunits.  is loaded onto DNA by a clamp loader comprised of single ␦ and ␦Ј subunits and four ͞␥ subunits (1). The  dimer thence encircles the DNA without actually binding to it. In addition to DnaE, three other E. coli DNA polymerases appear to interact with . PolB (DNA polymerase II) is involved in DNA repair (4) and the addition of  and the clamp loader increases its processivity in vitro (5, 6). Similarly,  and the clamp loader together increase both the processivity (7) and efficiency (8) of DNA synthesis by DNA polymerase IV (DinB).  also appears to play a similar role in the activity of DNA polymerase V (8) (the UmuDЈ 2 UmuC complex) and the UmuD subunit has been shown to bind to  (9).Experimental evidence shows that at least some -binding proteins can interact productively with  from heterologous species. For example, PolC subunits from Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, and Bacillus subtilis can use E. coli  as their processivity subunit (1, 10, 11). In contrast, E. coli DnaE cannot use  from the other species (11), the E. coli clamp loader complex cannot load S. aureus  (11), and the S. pyogenes clamp loader complex cannot load E. coli  (1).In the absence of any experimentally identified -binding sites in proteins, a bioinformatics approach was undertaken to identify putative -binding motifs. The role of the putative motif was then examined by yeast two-hybrid and peptide-binding experiments with native and modified sequences. Materials and MethodsSources of Amino Acid Sequences. Amino acid sequences and alignments were derived from: PSI-BLAST of the protein database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), and BLAST of preliminary sequence data from NCBI at http:͞͞ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov͞Microb_blast͞unfinishedgenome.html, Institute for Genomic Research at http:͞͞www.tigr.org, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute at http:͞͞spider.jgipsf.org͞JGI_microbial͞html͞, Sanger Center at http:͞͞ www.sanger.ac.uk͞DataSearch͞omniblast.shtml, and ERGO at http:͞͞wit.integratedgenomics.com͞IGwit͞. Alignments of available sequences of all members of eubacterial protein families known to bind to  were compiled with manual editing in regions of variab...
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Minute genes have long constituted a special problem in Drosophila genetics. For at least 50-60 different genes scattered throughout the genome, dominant mutations and/or deficiencies have been recognized which result in a common phenotype consisting of short thin bristles, slow development, reduced viability, rough eyes, small body size and etched tergites. Schultz proposed that the Minute loci encode similar but separate functions involved in growth and division common to all cells. Atwood and Ritossa suggested that Minute loci encode components of the protein synthetic machinery, specifically the transfer RNA genes; this now seems unlikely on grounds of both mapping and mutability studies. More recently, we and others suggested that the Minute loci are ribosomal protein genes. We report here that transformation with a cloned 3.3-kilobase (kb) region containing the gene encoding the large subunit ribosomal protein 49 (rp49) suppresses the dominant phenotypes of Minute (3)99D, a previously undescribed Minute associated with a chromosomal deficiency of the 99D interval. This activity is specific to the 99D Minute as it does not suppress other Minute loci elsewhere in the genome. This result provides direct evidence that the Minute locus at the 99D interval encodes the ribosomal protein 49.
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