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Journal of Bacteriology, August 2007, p. 5652-5657, Vol. 189, No. 15
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00073-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

DNA Polymerases BI and D from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus Both Bind to Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen with Their C-Terminal PIP-Box Motifs{triangledown}

Kazuo Tori,1 Megumi Kimizu,1 Sonoko Ishino,2 and Yoshizumi Ishino1,3*

Department of Genetic Resources Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University,1 BIRD-Japan Science and Technology Agency, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan,3 Department of Molecular Microbiology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan2

Received 15 January 2007/ Accepted 1 May 2007

Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is the sliding clamp that is essential for the high processivity of DNA synthesis during DNA replication. Pyrococcus furiosus, a hyperthermophilic archaeon, has at least two DNA polymerases, polymerase BI (PolBI) and PolD. Both of the two DNA polymerases interact with the archaeal P. furiosus PCNA (PfuPCNA) and perform processive DNA synthesis in vitro. This phenomenon, in addition to the fact that both enzymes display 3'-5' exonuclease activity, suggests that both DNA polymerases work in replication fork progression. We demonstrated here that both PolBI and PolD functionally interact with PfuPCNA at their C-terminal PIP boxes. The mutant PolBI and PolD enzymes lacking the PIP-box sequence do not respond to the PfuPCNA at all in an in vitro primer extension reaction. This is the first experimental evidence that the PIP-box motif, located at the C termini of the archaeal DNA polymerases, is actually critical for PCNA binding to form a processive DNA-synthesizing complex.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Genetic Resources Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan. Phone: 81-92-642-4217. Fax: 81-92-642-3051. E-mail: ishino{at}agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 11 May 2007.

Journal of Bacteriology, August 2007, p. 5652-5657, Vol. 189, No. 15
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00073-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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